On Monday Kaine took Old Red to school since the fuel light was on after getting unstuck putting out grass straw. Kaine called me after school and said guess what happened mom? I said s***, you ran out of diesel? He said no, Riggs had puppies. Anna’s dog Riggs had 6 puppies on Monday. Now to DNA them and see what breed the sire is. Anna thinks it is Leo, the mini poodle, who was neutered about the time she came out of heat. I am so sure he is not the dad, we have a $25 bet. But, if he is the dad I am keeping one. So I am hoping I lose, but pretty sure I am not. There is a red merle, a red one, two border collie looking ones and two black ones. Leo is black. Kade had a running start meeting Monday night, so Toni and Kade went to that after chores. Kaine tried staying on the back of the pickup while Ben tried to not get stuck while they were feeding cows. Muddy mud out there.
On Tuesday headed to work, to get pellets in Palouse, court, etc you were either racing tumbleweeds, dodging them or passing them as they went the other way. Lots of wind and tumbleweeds all over. Tuesday was a windy B. Toni had to stop on her way to Court to give Opal her morning dose of medication to keep Opal healthy and hopefully the foal(s). Opal was having some issues with laminitis, pain moving, etc. That is on top of everything else she is going through. Being a range mare she can be problematic to get meds into. I thought for sure we were having a foal, it seems like they are born when it was windy. Sure enough Shiney had a foal, we think it is a filly, but she is out on 500 acres and we are not 100% sure. It is a nice dunskin by Sagebug. At least the wind was firming up the mud. Kade, Jaxsen, and Kaine all went to Finley for an FFA Jamboree for their various competitions. Both Kade and Jaxsen were 3rd individual for their specific competitions and their teams were 1st. All boys did a great job and are having a fun time at FFA.
Wednesday morning I had an appointment with my dermatologist, if you want to see someone, Rebecca Eng is great at the Center for Dermatology Excellence. She is a rancher, barrel racer, her sister and mom buy bulls from us, great person to visit. I had a spot burnt off of my nose. We had a sunscreen discussion. Then Kaine and I went to breakfast at SagePort Grill, it was excellent. Then we went to our dentist appointments at Quail Ridge and I got to catch up with Franny. We had people out Wednesday during the day for their second look at the foals. They were able to narrow it down to two to purchase. It was a fun visit with a person that used to show cattle with our Grandparents, so lots of fun stories. Toni and I checked the mares Wednesday night. They wanted some hay and followed us around. Breezy was waxed up, so we put her in mom’s dog pen since it has been so windy.
Dad texted Thursday morning that Breezy foaled. She had a cute buckskin colt, but Barb, Toni and I are disappointed it is a colt. I have not told Toni yet, but after 6 panel and color testing I might convince her to keep him for Gunner’s heir…. I feel like she is going to tell me that is Sagebug… We will see what happens. We also have a Gunner son in CA that is standing at stud if anyone wants to breed to one in that area. Mom and Dad went to town to Toni spent the day running back and forth to Mom and Dad’s as they thought Opal was foaling but she was just laying down. Kade started welding on the Meacham new tack shed. Toni thinks she needs to buy more saddles to fill up all the saddle racks. But she literally has saddles everywhere, at my house, mom and dads house, her house. I feel like she has enough saddles.
On Friday Toni and I got up early to pull CIDRs from the cows and give them a shot. They did not want to get up early either so were kind of balling up Bs. Toni finally grabbed Kevin, since he was in the pen with them. But she was just riding him bareback, so barely better then on foot. Then they balled up at the end of the alley and broke the chain and got out in the corn field. Luckily their calves were already sorted off, so they came back for the most part. Only about half of them got out. So I went and got them in and Toni started pulling CIDRs. It is a slow process with two of us, but luckily we have good dogs. We got started at 8 and got done around 9:30. Then we had one of our bulls leave, and we talked to him for a bit. Then Toni went and gave Opal her meds, got Jaxsen, who came home sick. Anna got home around noon so we went out and got some new pics of Shiney filly. Anna gets to name it since Shiney is “her” mare. I came up with a great name for Breezy’s colt, KT The Mighty Gun.
Saturday morning the cows got their next shot. Kade rode Jag now that the weather is better, Toni did not let him ride her when the weather was really bad. We had people out looking at bulls, a bull left. We checked cows, horses, etc. It was a pretty nice day on Saturday. Kade went and shot trap. I took a load of corncobs down to Mom’s to try to clean up the alley. Ben brought the tractor down and we got a good section of the alley kind of cleaned up. The horses were a huge pain in the butt to get that done. I had to back into the gate area from the pasture with horses in the way the entire time. I also got a couple of bales put out for the week. The big pasture has really slowed down on eating the grass hay now that grass is kind of growing. We also got mineral tubs put out.
Sunday morning Terry and Erina came down to help AI cows. We sorted the calves off and then into AI groups, had lunch, then Mark and Alex were there to AI. We AIed cows the rest of the day. Toni and Erina when and checked the mares. Then we were done AIing the Herefords, so Toni jumped on ol Kevin bareback, I am guessing he is sorry for his decision to get in with the cows, and Toni, Erina, Jaxsen and Kade pushed the Herefords down with the Hereford bull. It was a couple miles so by the time they got back Toni was regretting riding the boney back of Kevin, but whatever. We were done with the Angus cows by the time Toni and Kevin made it back. So we pushed them down to the corn field. Terry and I ran the chute. Ben and Alex were getting semen prepped. Kicker and the boys, Toni, Anna, and Erina were bringing up the cows. We had a really good day to AI and things went well. We are hoping that helps with the conception rate. We finished up, got everything moved then went and did normal chores. Opal was also doing better by Sunday and was unaccepting of any oral medication.
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