On Monday the CA crew was out bright and early to look at horses and get Peaches, Joss and Santana and head back to CA. Toni and Kade took them around for the tour. Everyone had a great time crammed into Toni’s pickup bouncing around the ranch to meet all the studs and mares. Later that day Kade rode Jag and Benelli and checked Jon’s cows. Anna and Ben checked our cows, we have another twin, this one we need to DNA, we think it is 801Ms, but not 100% sure. Goldy the Jersey is doing great with her two calves. Kaine and Ben have been working a trailer project, they are making a small flatbed trailer. Kaine and Kade are also catching their Spokane steers daily. Anna and Kade have also put CIDRs in their fall heifers and are AIing them right after the first of the year. Kade has been working on Benelli to get her in shape to start roping off of. Toni started halter breaking the next group Monday night, she thought this was going to be an easy group since two of her “pets” are in this group, Astra and Zell. Guess what, Astra and Zell just want to be pets, not horses. So she is planning on getting in a donkey on Tuesday, maybe two donkeys. North is the third one in, and she did great.
On Tuesday we had another calf, they are just trickling in since the AI cows are done. The CA horses made it home Tuesday morning, they were happy to have green grass and no mud. Toni got the donkeys in on Tuesday and tied Zell and North to donkeys and was the donkey for Astra. We had another twin on Tuesday. Ben, Anna, Kaine and Scarlett expanded the cow fence up to the Old Valley. We went to Connell and had a New Years Eve party in the show barn and played games. Toni and Kade both rode as the weather was decent.
Happy New Year! We let the cows into the New Stalks for New Years, they were pretty excited about it. Toni and I tied Zell and North back to the donkeys and Toni led Astra all over. Astra wants to please Toni so once she figured out what was wanted she has been good. North is also really good, just big. Zell wants to be the boss. I took Jet for a walk about, she did great. Anna and Ben came down and put out grass straw bales, I helped Anna when they got down there. We all went to bed early from being up all night the night before.
Guess what, it rained on Thursday. I did not know what we were going to do without the rain. Ben had to go back to work on Thursday after his month off. He was depressed about it. Anna and Kaine came down to Kennewick to pick up the minis that were at a coworkers house. They stopped off at my work and brought me lunch, and everyone went outside to pet the minis. Except Nikki who was in the lunch room and no one told her they were here. She is still upset about it. Toni went and stayed with grandma on Thursday.
Kade went for a ride on Friday between the rain storms. We have not gotten any good pics of the foals we are halter breaking because they are covered in mud. Toni took them for a walk about and they all did great. Marlo and Kade did chores Friday, Toni was down for a little bit but was starting to not feel well. Luckily the foals are all at a really good spot so she could just mess with them and not have any fights. Chad came out and trimmed the two minis we got back from Bobs.
We tagged the few calves we had this week Saturday morning. Then Anna and I made a feed area for Goldy the jersey in the nursey pen for her calf and her nurse calf. We opened the gate so she can go in the barn and down to the new pen so she has more room. Kaine and Kade tied up their Spokane steers and got weights on their CA steers. They are growing nicely. Then Kaine and Ben put out straw to the cattle around the barn so they had something to sleep on besides mud. Anna and I took flax mineral tubs out to the mares on the desert. Then Kade and I tired to put more cobs in the round pen, we were going to try to put them in Mirage, Copper and Jetts pen, but we could not get in there. So we switched to the round pen, also got stuck. Kade tried to start the Ford tractor, it would not start. So Ben had to come down and pull us through in the Case, but we got them out. Then Kade and I did chores. I led the three fillies while I was waiting for Ben and turned them out.
We had another new calf on Sunday, they are just trickling in now, and we tagged it so we can start out next week without everyone tagged. Then we got some pics of the bulls, or I did, with Murtaugh and Miranda who were not particularly helpful. Kade and Kaine worked on their steers. Anna worked on the two mini weanlings so we could get pics of them. Ben and Kaine then worked on the feed bunk at the top of the hill, the couple little weanlings calves we have have been crawling out, so they added another bar. Anna and I went back out to check and D187 had calved. We got some new pics of the calves. Kade and I got Peeps and Gold Bug in and haltered them and then did chores.
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