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Another whirlwind week of lots of adventures and all-around fun stuff.

Posted on November 1, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was a nice sunny day, and it seemed a shame that water was turning off. Toni had someone out to look at Rich, and he bought him and they looked at a bunch more stuff for him to tell his family and friends about. Rich loaded great. Rich has always been a favorite, he is the one that Toni called COG- her colt dog. Toni had court Monday afternoon, she has court pretty much all week. Anna is home, so she brought Kade home from school, Toni and dad had been switching off the week before. Anna was selected as one of the finalists for a Coca-Cola scholarship. Which is awesome, now we will see how she does. Kaine and Jaxsen had football practice. Monday was also the first day for Blaze and Dukey being halter broke. Bailey was on the beginning of week 2. We only needed 2 donkeys on Monday, so Basil got left out.

On Tuesday if felt like fall. It was rainy and cold. Toni went down and worked on the foals before Jaxsen’s football game since it was not raining at that moment. I just did a few chores, fed the old horses. Kade is on his final week of drivers ed, so testing. Ben took the three two year old bulls in to get semen and trich tested. Dad went to work for Todd mowing wheat stubble. Tuesday was Jaxsen’s last game, they played hard, it was a good game. Jaxsen really loves football and was sad to see it end. He tells us he is going to be a GOAT, everyone has to have goals. Blaze got hooked to Rosie but Dukey was already basically halter broke. He was born that way.

Wednesday was a half day and then parent teacher conferences in the afternoon. Toni then had to hurry home for court on webex. As she waited for the court she was notified the power was out at the courthouse so it was canceled. I had parent teacher conferences after work, so Toni worked on the colts. Duke is the best. Toni discovered the donkeys and Bailey Bug love treats. Which made them much much easier to catch. They had tying lessons and all did great.

On Thursday Toni had court in Spokane. Kade did chores and Anna was ready to help him work on the colts, but Toni made it home just in time to tell them she was going to do it. The three foals got to go outside of the corral into the driveway. Because it had rained, there was some mud and puddles that Toni took them through. They are all really really good foals. It is always fun to have foals in with different sires and compare, but for the most part the foals are all smart, willing, and able. Kaine had a football game in Royal City so dad and I went to that. It was COLD and Royal City didn’t play an honest game. We made it across the whole field in penalties once play. We might be 2nd in the league and they might be 1st, but we can at least be proud of our sportsmanship and how we played. The refs even sent Connell a letter on how great the coaches and kids were. It is on the Connell High School Facebook page if you want to read it. We are proud of Kaine and his team. The coaching staff has high expectations for these kids and the kids are stepping up, on and off the field.

On Friday Toni, mom, Anna, Lane, Kade and Jaxsen went to see grandma.  With it being Grandma’s big 93rd birthday weekend, we were trying to break up all the celebrations and keep people with her for the bulk of the weekend. Kaine was still asleep when they left so Toni didn’t want to wake him since he is a growing boy and played a hard-hitting football game. When Kaine got up he ran to Othello to get pastries from Cow Path Bakery in Othello, cousins Linda and Patricia were coming for the weekend. When they got back from grandmas Jaxsen pulled the tufkaf around for Kade and Kade practiced roping. Marlo and Patricia helped Toni work on foals that night, they did it early since Toni had so much help. Marlo led Bailey and Patricia led our Dukie boy. All the foals did great with the “new” people. Then we went up to Meachams for dinner.

                On Saturday we got Sugar in to halter break and load, she did really good. We had a communication failure and she was not on the schedule to leave but Cody and Kyra had driven a ways to get her so took her anyway. She did really great. Then we went to BB for a Halloween party. Then we came home and worked on the foals. Saturday night we had dinner at Meachams again and had Jaxsen and Ben’s birthday party. The kids also worked on their calves to get ready for the show next weekend.

Sunday morning Blaze and Bailey Bug left. Patricia needed to lead Duke some more before they left. Then we moved the heifers down to the alfalfa field since it froze, Patricia had fun doing that. She went out to see her horse Nellie. We got some new videos of Gen and the white steer we have for sale. Chad came out to reshoe Electra.  Patricia and Toni went to see the Eagle nest. And we got our new halter breaking victims in. The kids worked on their calves all weekend, they have their Spokane steers in to get them ready and the calves that they plan to show all of 2024. Lots of calves in the barn getting the royal treatment. We actually accomplished quite a bit for a busy family fun weekend.

Another whirlwind week of lots of adventures and all-around fun stuff. We are making really good progress getting the foals weaned and halter broke. We weaned a few more, Ghost and Yo Chic, over the weekend and just have a few more to go. We are really excited about how this foal crop looks and acts. We do have some really good ones left that haven’t sold. One of our favorite questions is, why hasn’t this foal sold? We have realized over the years that sometimes our favorites just haven’t had their person come along yet. This is a truly wonderful group of foals.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on October 31, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch
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New Pictures and Videos of KT Genuine Starlight

Posted on October 30, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

KT Genuine Starlight, “Gen”
Gelding
Sire: Just Plain Starlight, “Colonel”
Dam: Jazabell Shine, “Bell”
Date Born: 5/06/2019
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Color: Bay Rabicano
Price: SALE PENDING
KT Genuine Starlight is a gorgeous lovable bay rabicano gelding. He is a great gelding to ride, he walks out, is not spooky at all. Kade has started throwing a rope off of him and he has roped the tuff calf. He is only four and is still going up, so he still needs to fill out. Gen’s sire, Colonel is a son of Tamalight and is out of Wright on Sugarnic, winner of the Cascade Cutter’s Futurity. Colonel has a pedigree that speaks for itself with Lenas Wright on, Grays Starlight, Docs Tamarak, Just Plain Colonel and more. Gen’s dam, Bell, is a daughter of AQHA Rom earner Shiney Men Can Jump. Shiney Men Can Jump is by Shining Spark, who is in the AQHA Hall of Fame, World Champion, ROM Performance, NRHA money-earner, AQHA Leading Sire, NRCHA Leading Sire with $3,000,000. On the bottom side Shiney Men Can Jump is out of Ms Jumpin Jack Sprat, who is a daughter of Docs Jack Sprat. Docs Jack Sprat is an earner of AQHA Show H-58/P-43, Superior Halter, ROM Performance, AQHA Champion, NCHA $3,069.33, NCHA COA. Gen loves attention and is a sweet boy. He does not have a mean bone in his body. He is ready to go. Gen is approximately 15.2 hands.
Video from Oct 2nd
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Another busy week here, the NILE show, homecoming, weaning and halter breaking, trying to keep up with chores and feeding, shipping foals, what is next?

Posted on October 25, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

Bright and early Monday morning Anna, Ben and McCall headed to Billings Montana for the Nile Cattle Show. They got there and got checked in. Toni had court. Dad and Mom headed to Addy to get Dad’s new side by side, or new to him but used, from Gary and Ruth. Monday was the start of homecoming week at school and Kade participated in the homecoming events at the assembly. Toni and I hooked the three foals to the three donkeys Monday night, Basil got Capone, Rosie got Bailey and Tulip for Mercades. These are three pretty big foals. Capone is the size of a yearling already and the other 2 aren’t small. We are thankful for donkeys. Very thankful.  Toni picked Kade up from school to do horse chores and then ran him back in for drivers ed. Kicker was fixing circles so Kaine ran up to do cow chores after he got home from practice.

                On Tuesday we turned the circle off and dad drove his new side by side up to the pond and out into the circle. He had fun. At the Nile Anna showed Mini Herefords, the mini-Hereford bull she showed won his division and the heifer got 3rd in her class. She had fun. I saw on Facebook that Kade participated in the homecoming events again. Good job buddy and having good school spirit. Jaxsen had a game, they beat Othello, Jaxsen played great. Mercades did not need to get tied to the donkey on Tuesday, I led her all over one handed while we moved the colts around. Capone was tied to Basil again and Bailey to Rosie. Kade drove after school then had drivers ed. Kaine went up to help with cow chores after he got done with horse chores. Kaine forgot to let the kittens out on Tuesday and they were little devils when we got home.

On Wednesday Mom and Toni went to see grandma, she has moved over to the rehab. Morgan and Tel came to the Nile to watch Anna show Char and hang out with Ben, Anna and McCall. Tel preferred Ben but Morgan would not let him keep him. I did get a text congrats on the grandbaby, how old do you people think I am?? Anna had fun showing the char heifer on Wednesday. I think they were third in their class in the Jr Show, I think third in showmanship and middle of the class in open. They did great, she showed really well and looked really good. Kade’s PVF heifer came on Wednesday over to Connell, Joe and Kade evaluated her at great extent. Toni was given some mixed soft Australian licorice when she took Kade to get his heifer, so she was happy.  Kade didn’t do the horse chores since he was picking up his heifer and then had drivers ed, so Kaine did horse chores and then went to help with cow chores. Jaxsen is still just doing water. We tied Bailey to Basil and Capone to Rosie on Wednesday and led Mercades. We then let Basil and Tulip out with the other foals and just left Rosie in for Thursday pulling. Rosie is by far the toughest of the lot, hardest to catch, but the toughest.

Great day at the Nile on Thursday. Anna showed a Gelbvieh heifer from Ledgerwood Gelbvieh, they won their class in the Jr Division and made it back. They were Grand Champion Sr Showman in showmanship. In the open division she was second in her class. Anna also got to show another heifer for Ledgerwood Gelbvieh and a bull, the bull was the Reserve Grand Champion overall bull. In the Angus division Anna’s bred and owned heifer won her division and her bull won his class. In showmanship Kale made it back to the championship round and Anna did really well. I went and had lunch with grandma, I shared a grilled cheese sandwich with her and she had soup.  Thursday night Toni and I worked on the foals. Kade did not have drivers ed so he did most of the chores. The foals are really starting to make progress. Tulip wanted to be done. She is kind of turning into a quitter.

Friday Anna and McCall showed at the Nile and Kale Cordill showed his Nile Merit heifer. McCall had Queenie and Baby Cow and Anna showed Blondie and her bull. Queenie got 2nd in her class and Blondie was in the same class and 3rd. Baby Cow was 5th in a deep class. Kale and Berta were 3rd in their class. The bull won his division and got to come back to the championship round. Kale and Berta were 4th Overall in the Nile Merit Program and Reserve Champion in Showmanship. Marlo came and her and Kade did chores. I worked on the foals, Toni had court on Friday, but she got there as we were finishing up and took some pics of the foals. Mom, Marlo, Kade, Jaxsen and I met Dianne in at Kaine’s football game. Kade got to record the film for the team. It was Sr night and we got to see a lot of fiends be honored in Sr night. It was a great game and Connell won.

Happy birthday Jaxsen. On Saturday Kade went hunting and Kaine went with his friends to Tri Cities to play golf before homecoming. Toni and I loaded out Mercades on Saturday, she went home with Juan. Jaxsen wanted to invite friends over for his birthday, so Toni went around and gathered them up. Then Robby and Ed came with daughter Cheynne to get a clubby steer. Then I fixed fence with the dogs, cleaned some stuff up, fed the cows a few old 2 string bales that were left over from shows and hanging around the show shed. Kade got home and did chores early so I could take him down to meet the boys for homecoming. Toni and I took pics of Capone and then finished up chores, which included getting Blaze and Dukey in and haltered. We had to chase the pen around a bit, but we got them. Both were pretty easy to halter. Bailey gets another week. I then ran to Kennewick with Kade and took homecoming pics and dropped him off with the other kids and came home. The boys had a good time at Homecoming. Ben, McCall and Mckenna went to Morgans in Wyoming to pick up the steers at Morgans house. They look really good, we are really happy with them. Then they went to the Angus sale to bid on some heifers but did not get any. Which the trailer was pretty full so maybe for the best, even though we really liked some of Zane Barragree’s heifers in the sale and some of Lacey and Chads from 3C (they donated Anna’s Nile Merit Heifer from last year). McKena flew out of Billings that night home to Kansas.  Toni took Jax’s friends home. A few wanted to stay the night but she said she couldn’t deal with it. Our friend Robby said that she read somewhere that raising boys is like raising a pack of squirrels. That seems accurate. 2 boys is ok, more than 2 and you wonder what type of hell life has become.    

On Sunday McCall, Ben and Anna headed home with the trailer load, and one heifer of Kelly Cordills that they dropped off. Toni, Kaine and Kade went to Pomeroy to pick up the Spokane steers from Dixons. Both boys took a turn driving with the trailer, they really can’t get too much experience driving with a trailer before they are turned lose on society. Once in Pomeroy, they spent some time with John and Jerry looking through the weaned calves. John Dixon does have some calves left that would work for a fall show if anyone is looking. I worked around the place with the dogs. Everyone kind of got home around the same time. We had to move pens around a bit to get pens for all of the steers and critters we have accumulated. Toni and I worked on group 4, Bailey, Blaze and Duke. All three donkeys had to come back in for a bit. We also put out big bales in the White tractor. I guess that happened this week too, we have sold the White tractor so putting out bales Sunday may have been its last job for KT Ranch. We also got Cog caught, practiced loading him, and put him in a pen at the house for him to leave on Monday to his new home. I weaned Mouse when she came in for grain, so another foal weaned.

                We are down to four long yearling colts and one filly. We think they are all pretty good ones and each has a unique trait that sets them apart. The Judge is a big gray colt out of John Hallowell’s PD stud- so Apache Blue Boy on the bottom and Dash for Cash on the top. This colt is made for performance. He is big, strong, smart, and pretty. King Two is a stout shorter colt, clearly made for breakaway, calf roping, healing. He is more reactive, but again, really smart. He is more of a project type, but is going to make a fantastic horse. King Three is a true-blue roan that carries a crème gene. He is EE, so can’t have a red foal. Again, super smart colt. Very fancy, has the right look. Joker is a joy to be around, has the pedigree, and ability. We had originally thought Joker would be our next stallion, but we are going to go a different route. Joker has that potential, or would make a great gelding. Joss is a buckskin filly. She was a later born filly, but is stout, smart, curious, and just a fun filly. She isn’t going to be huge, should mature 14.2 with lots of natural grace. These are all really great foals that we are ready to move before winter.

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Group 2 Halter Breaking was great, Evergreen Sale was a Success and we had fun and still have Friday Night Lights.

Posted on October 20, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was still a nice day, however, the weather man says it was supposed to get cold and raining. But it is October, so to be expected. Anna and Kade had rangeland management practice after school, Kaine and Jaxsen had football practice. Kaine was one of the players of the week, good job buddy. Toni and I started working on group 2, Smokin in clearly the easiest. Tulip lead Saul, Toni worked on Smokin and I worked on Runner.  Runner is our first foal out of Running Sparkles and wow, he is amazing. These three colts go to the same family and we are really excited about this group.

            Kade and Anna had a rangeland management competition on Tuesday, however, Anna was not feeling well so did not go. Kade did AWESOME. 6th overall individual, their team got 5th and made it to nationals. Jaxsen had a football game in Mattawa and they won 19 to 6. Jaxsen played an awesome game. Tulip and I worked on the foals and Kaine helped me when he got done with chores. Having Kaine come help with the foals is always an experience. The foals are not used to teenage boys with lots of hair.

                On Wednesday Toni and mom went to see grandma in the morning and I went and had dinner with her. Toni worked on the foals. Ben and Anna packed up to go to the Evergreen Sale.  Toni went and got Basil and Rosie so Tulip had help with the foals. All three donkeys led foals Wednesday night.  These three foals are just really big so we needed the extra help. Rosie is the newest donkey that we got from Samee and Pete and she is the toughest of the lot. Probably the youngest. She is also the hardest to deal with, but she isn’t a man killer. You do want to watch her back feet. Once she is hooked she is a rock. Those foals don’t get the best of her. Basil and Tulip and more like semi-retired, because that is what they want. Tulip especially wants to be a pet. We are careful to really treat her the way she chooses to be treated.

On Thursday after the board meeting Marlo, Anna and I headed to Ellensburg for the Evergreen Exclusive Sale. We got there and got set up and head dinner with cousins Bobbette and Ryan. Toni had court and was going over the overpass at Othello while we went under it. Toni and Kade worked on the colts and practiced loading them. They all did great. We like to load them three times each, and since these three are going together we wanted them to load together and understand how to interact.  Mom and dad went to Kaine’s game in Mattawa. Connell played awesome. Kaine is really enjoying football and playing varsity.

On Friday Anna, Marlo and I were in Ellensburg, we had an exhibitor meeting, we washed the steers and heifers, went to lunch with Lyyskis, and had a great time. That night was the banquet, Anna spoke as the president and did the Willard Wolf memorial scholarship.  Toni had court early in Pasco and had an awesome hearing with a major win. Toni practiced loading the colts some more.  She was loading them individually on Friday to make sure the colts would load on their own. She was on her own so the loading exercise took a few hours. Boys did chores.

On Saturday morning Anna, Marlo and I had breakfast with Lyyskis, after washing and feeding the heifers and steers, then we went back to the rodeo grounds to get set up. Toni and Dad came up to Ellenburg, Toni was in charge of the judging classes and was excited about that. She rounded up 4 classes and a bunch of kids. She then had to judge the cards. It was exciting to see how all the kids did. Anna didn’t get any of the winner money, but was right off the winners. Then we visited and showed the heifer and steers and had the sale. The Sale was great. Thank you Aram for buying Gogo and Ruth and Gary for buying 303. The sale was great, thank you to everyone that came and bid on the heifer and steers. We hauled 9 head back, we bought a steer and heifer (steer for Jaxsen and heifer for Anna) and then hauled 7 back for other people. Toni met with a client on the way home. Kade went hunting Saturday with uncle Tata. Kaine went to Middletons and hung out with friends. Ben did ranch work and got ready for the Nile. When Anna, Marlo and I got back, we had one person there to pick up his two heifers and then one person showed up shortly after to get her heifer.  Kaine and Kade had done chores, and Kaine helped Marlo and I work on the colts. Wow, Saturday was just flat busy.

Sunday morning Brad showed up bright and early to get his two steers. Then we loaded out the three colts to their new home, and took their grandkids out to pet Baby Blackie, Celest and Halo. Next Toni and I got in the mares and moved ones from circle 5 home and ones from home to circle 5. Weaned all of the sold foals and most of the big ones. We only left 2 colts in circle 5 but 27 head of mares.  Kaine went hunting with Keegan. Kade, Jaxsen and Anna worked on their heifers and steers and Anna and McCall packed up to go.  We got three more foals in to work on for the week. Capone, Mercedes, and Bailey. Two foals by Gunner and one by Sagebug. They are all super super big. They haltered really well and we are ready to work on them for the week.

We are excited that Basin Feed and Supply brought treat bags with coupons inside for us to give to people picking up foals. Thank you Maria for bringing those! It is really fun to have Basin Feed and Supply help us with our care packages for our buyers.

Thank you to everyone that supported Anna with her first reg Angus consignment sale. She put in a ton of work to get those calves ready and had a great sale. We are very proud of her accomplishment and appreciate all of the support she received from everyone.

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Come and Check out the yearlings we have left and lets make a deal.

Posted on October 19, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch
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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on October 10, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch
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Lots of fun stuff going on at KT Ranch! We have officially entered into the birthday season.

Posted on October 5, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

                It was a wet and cold Monday. We needed to get some videos on King 2, so we did that after moving water. The foals were all still pretty mad at us for weaning them. We are up to 4 in the weaning pen. Mom made peach cobbler for Kade’s birthday week of desserts. Dad took Kade into Drivers Ed and then Toni picked him up and let him drive home. Kade is a good “beginner” driver. Since Kade is no longer playing football him and Anna have been getting the chores done early. Since Ben was home REALLY late, I am sure Anna was happy to have Kade there helping. Kade still has a hurt shoulder, but he can drive and help to the best of his ability.  Kaine and Jaxsen had football practice.

                On Tuesday Kade and Anna had rangeland management practice for FFA after school. They have a competition on Wednesday NW of Ephrata. Anna thinks it is at Lance Hale’s place, he buys bulls from us, so she is going to look for her bull. Since the last one he bought was hers. Toni sold Red and Nugget on Tuesday, Mr Dansie’s brother came out to look at Red and he brought cousin in law Jake’s cousin in law Trevor out. It was one of those small world moments when you figure out the guy coming to look at your horse is your cousin-in-law’s cousin-in-law. So Toni showed Trevor Nugget. Toni hadn’t ridden Nugget since Nugget was 2 or 3, but Nugget is always great, so it wasn’t a big deal. Both Toni and Trevor jumped on him bareback with a random bridle Toni had in her pick-up. That was enough to show Trevor how well broke Nugget is, so he bought Nugget.  Nugget was originally trained by our mutual cousin in law Jake. So Trevor in kind of related. Jaxsen had a football game at 4 on Tuesday. He did great. He even got to carry the ball.

On Wednesday Anna and Kade went to NW of Ephrata for rangeland management judging. FYI, the national competition is going to be held in Lind, WA. I am curious to see where all these teams are going to stay, and eat for that matter. Connell FFA placed 3rd overall, really well for the first time they have competed in it. Hank came out to bangs vaccinate heifers on Wednesday, it was me, Toni, Marlo and the dogs. We were crazy efficient and good. It was a little blustery out but that is better than being too hot. It also gave us a good look at the heifer calves. We are still debating what to keep and what to sell, but some of those heifers placed themselves on the sale list. We love a volunteer. A few others put themselves on the love love love list. We have one heifer we think so highly of we are talking about getting some embryos out of her dam. We probably won’t but we will talk it to death.

Thursday was dad’s birthday, Happy Birthday dad. We had a couple of ladies out in the afternoon to look at the foals Toni took them on the big tour. All three of them had to cross the swamp in Circle 5 and didn’t make it across unscathed. So wet socks and shoes, a good laugh, and good sports. The foals all look good and big. Healthy foals are always a good sight. Kids went to school, did chores, Kade rode his horses, Anna worked on her Nile and Evergreen animals, Jaxsen and Kaine had football practice.

On Friday Chad came out, so Toni caught horses in-between court sessions, mom helped and chad trimmed. They are a real team. When Toni got done she went down and her and Chad did some of the harder ones. Mom will hold, but nothing that isn’t good. It was also still a big chilly so Mom and Chad were on a cookie break when Toni got there. After the trimming was done we did chores. We talked about all of the horse moving around we need to do to really start weaning. A hauler showed up with our show steers that we bought in S. Dakota. We had 7 show steers delivered. We had some friends ask us to buy them some so we had all the steers delivered to my house. We were really excited to see the quality of calves that came off the trailer. You always watch the videos and see the pictures, but until you see them for real you don’t know for sure. To say we were pleased would be an understatement. We got some really good ones. We may have screwed our kids over when the other kids get these good steers.  Kaine had a football game so I brought home sandwiches. Dad, mom, Kade, Jaxsen and I all went to the game. Toni had work to do so she stayed home, also, I think she is very opposed to paying to go and watch the kids play football.

                On Saturday we had our first fall calf, 137 had a heifer. Maki came and got her mare that has been with Sagebug. We worked on the fence on the bottom of circle 8. We haltered and worked the show steers that came. We got pictures of Anna’s two steers in the evergreen sale. I went and stayed with grandma Saturday night. Toni, Kaine and Kade did horse chores, they did them a little early so Kaine could go with Maxx to the Middleton Pumpkin patch to ask Kendra to Hoco. Also, we haltered the weaned foals. Kade practiced roping on Gen. It was Gen’s first time having a rope thrown off of him and he was amazing. Kade roped the Tuf Kaf with him and Gen acted like a seasoned rope horse. He is a pretty fun horse. Anna and McCall worked on Nile cattle and Evergreen cattle.  It was a really productive day. The Lewiston Horse Sale was Saturday but Toni didn’t get anything bought. Mom made us all pie- chocolate and banana crème. Mom’s banana crème pie is the best.

Another busy day Sunday. Moved the horses around at Mom and Dad’s.  We put Tank into the corral, so he no longer has any lady friends. Then we moved Dude into a pen as well, also no friends. We then took the Dude mares and put them out in the big pasture, moved the old mares from Tank’s pen into the front pasture, then the yearling fillies into Tank’s old pen. It took a little time, but everything went smoothly except Dad telling Toni how she was doing it wrong. If we have moved horses hundreds of times, then Dad has moved thousands and we never do it right. Toni, Ben, Kade, Kaine, and Jaxsen got all of the mares in from Circle 5 to the corral at my house. All of the people that had asked us to buy them steers came out and picked their steers. Everyone seemed pleased. Then we got the mares into the alley and sorted out the ones we needed to wean and some extras. Some of the foals are big enough we need to get them weaned.  We hauled those pairs down to Mom and Dad’s, weaned those foals, and took Tulip down. We had birthday lunch for Kade and dad. Uncle Skip came. It was a fun lunch break between the work. For chores we also hooked up 2 of the haltered foals to Tulip. Tulip was not impressed to be back to work. You have to be careful because she will drag the foal over to you and try to highline a person with the foal. That donkey is smart and devious. Toni and I led the other 2 foals. These foals are pretty good so far. FYI on the picture of dad and Kade, NOTHING annoys me worse then bunny ears ruining a good picture. WHY does dad (and Skip and now the boys) have to RUIN pictures ALL THE TIME. Yes, lots of CAPS. VERY ANNOYING.

Lots of fun stuff going on at KT Ranch! We have officially entered into the birthday season. For some reason most of our family has fall/winter birthdays. Toni is sending out texts on things she wants for her birthday- usually expensive horses, heifers, a stallion- whatever she has found that she wants at the moment.  Just a reminder that we wean sold foals first, so if you are on the market for a foal and waiting for us to wean it, give us a call otherwise it won’t be weaned until last.

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KT Goldies Blue Star

Posted on September 1, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

KT Goldies Blue Star
Colt
Sire: KT King of Blue
Dam:  KT Roths Golden Girl
Date Born: 3/9/23
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Color: Black
Price: $6,000
Blue Star is an impressive black colt by KT King of Blue, “King.” King is by Shining Blue DR, who is a very good looking son of Autumnator. Autumnator is sired by Smart Little Lena, earner of $743,275, NCHA Triple Crown Op Ch. Autumnator’s dam is AUTUMN BOON is an earner of $244,470 NCHA. Dam of 26 foals, 17 perfs earning $1,003,985 NCHA/WS. Shining Blue Dr’s bottom side is Shining Sparkler, a gorgeous palomino son of Reining and Reined Cowhorse Leading Sire Shining Spark. King’s Dam, Izzy, is out of Captains Double Coy and KT Copper Queen Cleo. Izzy’s pedigree includes many greats like Major Bonanza, Sizzlin Hot, Major King, Docs Dee Bar and more. Blue Star’s dam is Goldy, is very versatile mare, she was Ben’s pick to ride for many years and Toni took her to the Othello fair, where she was shown halter and western equitation. She is a big pretty mare that now she is a broodmare produces outstanding foals with a lot of eye appeal. Her pedigree includes Major Bonanza, Docs Rickashay, Docs Dee Bar, Lucky Lynx, Catechu and more. This is a funny foal, he has a lot of natural ability, loves to chase everything, dogs, cats, etc. He is curious and loves to show off his moves.

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Since I did not post on the blog on Fair Week, this one is two weeks old. But Big News.

Posted on August 30, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was a BIG DAY. Blue FINALLY foaled. Blue is 24, and I was feeling like mom thought we were telling her a tall tale that Blue was pregnant. Robins Reflection is a beautiful bay roan (we are under discussion on her color, Toni says she cannot be bay, she has to be brown because King is a/a and Blue is A/A so the baby is clearly a/A) filly. I went to Grand Coulee Dam on Monday for a meeting in the morning and then we went to the Keys Pumping Plant in the afternoon for a tour. Cousin Kendel was on the tour with her husband Toby, who works with me. Beside it being 104 degrees in Grand Coulee, the tour was pretty awesome when you accepted the sweat rolling down you back and in a hard hat. I had a discussion with a bald man if it is better to have hair or not to have hair. He says the hair is better because it keeps the swear from rolling into your eyes. I got back after chores had been done, but mom had made a peach pie and it was to die for. It was still warm when I got there. Toni had a big hearing on Monday. Ben got home late from work and then was out fixing circles. Dad was harvesting wheat on Monday.

Tuesday mom went and stayed with Grandma. Toni went to Tri Cities for a dentist appt and had lunch with Shannon and then a massage. Her and the kids did chores. The colts had a pole down so Toni hammered back up with a rock she found on the ground so she didn’t have to go back to the house for a hammer. We need to put a lag bolt in that pole because they get it down quite a bit. It originally had a lag, but the colts broke it off and we didn’t have a lag with us when we put it back up. So it gets hammered back up a bunch but at some point it needs a fix not a bandaid. I had dinner at a Day with a Farmer Tour. It was pretty good.

On Wednesday Toni had a trial, the boys had football practice until noon. Then the kids started to pack and get ready for the fair. We were back up in the triple digits that week, so it was hot. I was on a farm bureau tour, I got to see some pretty cool things on Wednesday, including the new carousal in the Vandermeulen Dairy that fits 150 cows. It was pretty cool. I got to talk to a lot of people as well. We did chores, Toni told me I had to sell Gucci if someone offered enough money and she told dad he had to sell Robins Reflection (Gucci sister). Then we went out to do chores.

Thursday Toni had court again, in Tri Cities. Boys had football practice. Dad got done harvesting at Thompsons. Joss and Macy came out and Anna was showing Macy how to clip. They took Baby Girl, a fall part clubby heifer that Anna has been halter breaking, back with them for a clinic. Toni stayed with grandma Thursday night. She did the front chores and I did the back chores, the kids did the rest of the chores. Men fixed circles, like normal, it is a never-ending battle.

   Friday more of the same, football practice in the morning, pack up the trailer to go, etc. I was at work and got Costco. We parked the trailers at the fairgrounds Friday night. Anna wanted to practice showing the fair cattle so Toni went down and the kids did some practice rounds in the heat. The steers going to BF fair are all pretty good. They have been to lots of jackpots and traveled. Kade finally got to ride Electra. Toni has been making him just work her on the ground to get her back into the riding frame of mind. She hasn’t been ridden in about a year. She did ok. She acted like a horse that has a great foundation, has some spunk, and hasn’t been ridden in awhile. We hope it won’t take much to get her going. Friday afternoon Toni, Anna, and Marlo went over to help our good friend Shelly with her friend Miguel and his goat. I bet no one reading this would have guessed that Toni could be convinced to help someone with a goat but she was. Mostly it was Anna and Marlo that clipped the goat and showed Miguel how to work on and show the goat. The goat is going to Othello Fair. Miguel is a great kid, so everyone was happy to help him.

Saturday was set up day at the fair. The boys had football practice and then Kelten brought them to set up. We were basically done by the time they got here. All the kids seemed really happy to see each other, in the pre-fair way of things. After a straight six days with each other during the fair, they aren’t so chipper. Set up took all morning then Toni met with clients until chores. She also missed a sale she had been meaning to bid at so she was not happy. But we went out and played with the foals after chores so that put her in a better mood. We got some new video of Star. Per the norm we didn’t take a halter out there so when she wouldn’t walk or move for the video Toni caught her with a string and drug her around. We got some fun new pictures of the foals.

Sunday was the calm before the storm. We finished packing before the fair. Kade took Electra for a ride out and about. She is very solid about outside things. Kade, in a teenage boy way, rode her between the trailers with his dog underneath, rode her next to the stud running the fence, rode her next to the road with the cars, nothing seemed to really bother her except for the fact that she was being ridden. The general consensus in getting ready for the fair is that we are overwhelming unenthusiastic about it.

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