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Happy
Holidays
and
a
Wonderful
New Year!
I hope to see
the one or the other next year again!
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October 2011 - Fall roundup
at a neighbor in Alzada - here with Angelo and Twister
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... and here Rancher Will
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October 2011 - Angelo found
his friend - ranch horse Twister is his favorite.
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... sure works hard for
him, too ...
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October 2011: Preparations
for shipping day. The yearlings are gathered from their summer pastures. |
October 2011: Shippingday
at the Lake Ranch. The yearlings are driven to the ranch, loaded and shipped
to a feedlot where they are fattened with grain before we meet them again
in a steak house. No, never in the next burger joint - hamburger meat comes
from older stock, like dry cows or tired bulls. Only yearlings make tender
steaks and great tasting roasts. |
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September 2011 - just a
romantic country pic :) |
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September 2011 - we are
sooo proud: our new Pickup, a "Dually"
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August 2011 - Cowboy Patrick
and Rancher Ferdi visit the young horses
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September 2011: while Patrick's
mare is bored, he tries out a few new cutting horses. |
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September 2011 - dog love
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my "colored horses" :-)
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July 2011 - bottle calves
:)
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August 2011 - Frosty (gray
stud) and his mares and daughters
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July 2011 - Checking cows
and calves on our new pasture named "Bentonite", which the Ranch added
to their land last winter.
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Bentonite is a kind of clay
that was mined there for many decades. Old machinery is witness of the
work that was done there years ago.
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July 2011 - some of the
ranch horses are send on a short vacation
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After the horses are moved
we enjoy a ride through "Sweet Clover" or "Yellow Mustard".
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July 2011: Visiting the
Indian Ponies. A neighbor has a herd of Paint Ponies that roams around
2000 acres. They are wild but also curious and check us out when we come
visit. |
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April
2011: calving season started. Not all is going easy, first picture is of
a calf that didn't want to suck, thus we had to bring the cow in and melk
her. Afterwards we rode out to tag newborn calves and sort pairs off.
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April 2011 - first cattle
drive, moving yearlings for a neighbor. |
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March
18, 2011: The road to the Lake Ranch is still snowed in. I needed to check
the cows, deliver a part for the tractor and try out a young horse, therefore
I invited some friends to come ride with me up to the ranch. The snow was
up to 6 feet deep - the cowboy on the pictures is riding a 17hand horse
- my horse couldn't even get through this. But we had bare spots too where
the wind blew the snow off.
March
13, 2011: Tractor or horses - these are the choices to get up to the Lake
Ranch this time of the year. Since I don't have my own tractor I took a
horse and good old
Mac went with me to check
the cows and horses. The cows are scheduled to start calving April 1st,
but we found already one calf on the ground - fit and healthy.
Februar
26, 2011: The snow mobil is not meant as a recreational vehicle here -
it's the only way to get around and check cows, horses and ranch.
24.
December 2010 - Merry Christmas!
Since
November 9th we are under snow. This is even for Wyoming uncommon since
the snow usually comes and goes until it stays sometimes from January until
April. This winter we haven't seen bare ground since November 9th and feeding
cows and horses with hay as ther eis no grass to get through for feed any
more. This is very expensive and we hope for early spring since the hay
stacks are shrinking fast.
151
cows and 64 horses stay at the Lake Ranch this winter, and ranchhand Will
feeds app. 4600 lbs hay per day to them - quite a bit work for him!
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7. December 2010
This cow is very mad - Will
and his stallion "Edge" try to get away! |
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5. December 2010
Horse Drive. |
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December 2010
Also in Wyoming - Shetland
Pony "Snickers" - here with "Flash" who had to get
used to his new neighbor
- he never saw a pony before. |
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November 2010
The deer are very hungry
and get pretty bold when they can steal hay from the horses. |
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27. November 2010
Neighbors Nick and Doerte
help finding two stray horses |
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21. November 2010
Horse Drive |
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18. November 2010
Shipping Day. The calves
and cows are sortetd and the calves move on to feedlots
while the cows will stay
at the ranch through a long winter. |
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12. November 2010
Mark aka Smokey who was sold
to a neighbor to become a ranch horse there. |
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11. November 2010
Luca and Smoke (or "Buckskin
turning gray") checking the cows. |
1. October 2010:
Shipping-Day. The yearling steers are rounded up and moved to the corrals
where they are sorted and loaded onto trailers to be shipped to feedlots.
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Want to
see more? Here are more pictures:
Pictures of
the Ranch until 2010
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