KT Bee A Bug Filly Sire: KT Gunners Sage Bug Dam: KT Major Stinger Bee, “BB” Date Born: 3/18/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Palomino Possibly Roan Price: 10,000 Could this bug get any cutier? Her sire, KT Gunners Sage Bug, is out of Continental Lady Bug and is by KT Gunpowder N Lead. Gunner is a roan dunskin son of Cue Bars Laddie, AQHA point earning and producing stallion. Gunner’s dam, Pistol, has been shown NFQHA, has been featured on rule book and in the NFQHA magazine. She is a great working ranch horse, rope horse, and the kids can ride her as well. Pistol’s sire, Gold Country Charro is a dunskin stallion that was shown in 1998 and 1999 in halter at local shows. Lady Bug is a big boned Continental Cad daughter going back to Mr Blackburn on the bottom. BB is a fancy mare that bred to the hilt, her dam, Stinger, won Pro division of the Cascade Cutters Futurity and is an own daughter of Lenas Wright On. Stinger’s dam has NCHA earnings of $111.31 and is an AQHA point earner. She is a granddaughter of Smart Little Lena, Slide Me Again and Just Plain Colonel, who are all money and pt earners. She is also the dam of our Stallion, Just Plain Starlight and our brindle filly, KT Gun in a Million. Top side, this filly is by Zinks Major Kid, who is by John Zink, who was an earner of AQHA Pts and 67 Palomino Halter pts and 119 Palomino Performance Pts. Zink’s dam, Sheza Major Star, was also shown AQHA. Zink has Major Bonanza, Skipper W, Quincy Dan and more in his pedigree. Due to a devastating injury, BB’s riding career was cut short.
KT Northern Gun Filly Sire: KT Gunpowder N Lead Dam: Empress Select, “Rosie B“ Date Born: 3/16/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Buckskin, Possibly Roan Price: 6,000 “North” is a fancy buckskin filly with a pedigree to really perform. North’s sire, KT Gunpowder N Lead, “Gunner,” is a fantastic dun roan son of Cue Bars Laddie. Cue Bars Lassie is a roan stallion that has been shown as a reiner, cowhorse and rope horse. He was the recipient of the Open AQHA All Around Trophy and is a CCHA Hall of Fame Horse. Gunner’s dam, Pistol, has been shown NFQHA, has been featured on the NFQHA rule book and in the NFQHA magazine. She is a great working ranch horse, rope horse, and the kids can ride her as well. North’s dam is Rosie B, who is a great mare, with an outstanding disposition and confirmation. She will come out and greet you in the pasture and loves attention. Her pedigree includes Two Eyed Jack, Azure Te, Coys Bonanza and more.
No new babies on Monday morning. Dad went to the Palouse and got pellets, he said it is snowing there. Ben and Kaine unloaded the trailer and then took it up to feed cows. Bouncing Betty lost a tire on Saturday, so we are down a flatbed trailer. Jaxsen had an FFA competition on Monday, Toni thinks Jaxsen is going to be short lived with FFA, he got to miss chores but did not miss any school. The boys placed really well, they were first, and the girls team was 2nd. Good job guys. Jax tied for first on the meats test. The kid knows his food.
No new babies on Tuesday either, and Playin would like someone to play with. She is being evil to her mother. It was Savannah’s birthday on Tuesday and a lot of times we have a foal on her birthday, but not this year. Anna went to the Jr high to do a presentation for FFA on ag related jobs. Dad went to work running tractor for Luke. Kade worked on opening and closing gates on Mauney. We are done halter breaking the foals, but we still have Bellini in the round pen due to her eye graft. She gets the graft removed from her eyeball next week. She is doing really great, but has lots and lots of energy and needs to be out of the roundpen.
Toni went and got her stolen child and brought her out to see the horses on Wednesday. She got to pet Libby, pet horses, hug Abby, etc. Things a small child likes to do. She wanted to pet all of the cows, but since most of the cows are not halter broke and don’t like small children, that was a no go. Coffey had to come back out and work on the freezer, it had an error message. 626B calved, one of the last few stragglers. She was a show heifer and produced a really pretty little heifer for Kade. Dad went out to drive tractor again and dropped mom off to stay with grandma. Toni stayed with grandma Wednesday night.
On Thursday we had a big ditch break at work, but it could have been worse, no one was injured. We are starting the main canals up to start water on the 13th. Toni checked cows and horses when she got home, no one new. We got a gorilla cart and some circle tires in the Booker auction, which was good. We were bidding on some hay spears in the Yarboro auction. Hopefully we get those too. We missed some weed shearers in the Booker auction that would have been really great to have on the Russian olive trees. I was really disappointed we missed those. Toni is also watching those standalone 24 foot panels at Booker, but they went too high. She may have access to those panels delivered to Othello for $350 per panel if anyone needs any.
On Friday Ben and I went with Anna, and Lane and Myles were also there, to Moscow to tour the University of Idaho. We had a great time in the walking tour and then Micheal Colley took us for a tour of the production cattle, feed lot, sheep and dairy facilities, etc. We all had a great time. I had an emergency board meeting at 1, so I missed part of the tour. Toni had a bunch of meetings, and Chad was out so Toni was busy with him. We are trying to get all of the yearlings trimmed up for the first time. They got three yearlings done then four big mares in the time they had. The yearlings were all good, but they were the ones we expected to be good. They also had Celeste in to get a trim but Celeste is only good when Celeste is doing what Celeste wants to do. She was not into having her feet trimmed. Mom helped hold horses as well. Kaine went snowmobiling with Maxx, Marlo, Kade and Toni did most of the chores. We got home about six so Ben and Anna did go feed the cows.
On Saturday morning Anna and I went to the Big Bend Annual meeting for her to accept the scholarship she won. She got to read her essay to the meeting attendees. We sat with Uncle David and Shattucks. Our whole table won door prizes, we were a pretty lucky table. Dad went with Kade to Colton for Trap. Dad and Kade both reported it was a cold and windy trip. They then went to St John and saw Uncle Skip and went to Ed Hayes before coming back. Ben went around and got all of the auction items we bought, circle tires from Booker, hay spears from Yarboro. In the afternoon Ben and Anna rolled up fence. Toni and I moved mares and stallions around. We are trying to get the open mares out with studs asap before the mares with foals go out. We turned our 2 year olds out in the big pasture, but Gunner and three mares in their pen. MC got moved to Gunner’s pen with 2 mares. Cappy was able to stay in his pen with 2 mares. Dude and Bug still don’t have mares just because. I stayed with grandma on Saturday night. Anna and Lane went to Ritzville prom in Spokane.
On Sunday Wagners came out and looked at bulls. Dad and Ben went to Alans and got a harrow, checked on the Charolais cow and had cinnamon rolls with Alan. Anna went out and pulled more posts out of the fence. Kade tied up his steers, Anna washed her steers and heifers. Kade rode Stormy out to check things. Then Toni, Kade, Jaxsen, and I went out and got a few mares in out of circle 5. Shiney had foaled and had a big, pretty, grulla colt. We are very happy he is alive and healthy, but this is the second stunning grulla COLT she has had. It isn’t too much to ask for a filly is it? We have more to get in, but the main ones we wanted came in so we left it alone. We just had our little old white trailer so we took them in two loads. It was super windy so we called it a day. Then we did chores. Kaine got home in time for chores. Kaine had tons of fun on his trip, but it was good to get him home and back to work.
Life is the sum of your choices- choose to buy a horse. We have five really cool yearlings left, a brood mare and Kade’s sale horse. All ready to be someone’s project.
Another Monday after a short weekend. Toni had court all day, in two different locations. But luckily it is light enough now that Anna can check before school. The weather was nice on Monday. No new foals, no new calves. Toni texted the boys to do her chores and needed a confirmed receipt of text after the last time. Kade confirmed it and fed the babies and the olds. Then he rode Mooney around, she is a nice mare and meets him at the gate.
On Tuesday Toni had court again, but had time to check in the morning first. The sun was shining and she reported that the tractors were hitting the field. Already?? Come on guys, it is February, we just got to use all the corn stalks the beginning on this month. Take her down a notch. We bid on some bale spears for the Skid Steer in the Musser Bros auction. Jaxsen had FFA practice after school, dad went and picked him up after. Toni worked on Smo and Jexy and asked if I had secretly halter broke them when they were in Las Vegas. I said of course I did. Coffey Refrigeration came out and looked at the outdoor freezer on Tuesday. Thank you Coffey, you were the ONLY people that would come out and look at it out of the 14 people Ben called (14 might be a slight exaggeration). We do not live that far out of town. And Happy 2nd birthday to our Shea Bug.
Guess what I saw Wednesday on my way to work?? Goldie foaled. Fancy colt by Sagebug. Mom and I were disappointed it was not a filly we could name Shea Bug since Shea’s birthday was Tuesday and he could have been born in the night. Goldie is claimed by Ben and so is Sagebug so we are all waiting on Ben to name “his” colt. Sonny got out and Scarlett caught him, Sonny is the mini colt we have left from last year. We moved Derringer up with the mares so Sonny had to go down to the barn and he is not super happy about it. Toni was in meetings/calls all day. Kade had agronomy practice. Kaine fed the horses and did not notice Dude colicing. Kade came down to ride Mauny, and noticed he was down and go him up, but did not think about him colicing. When Toni got down there she was not happy with them. Toni and Kade were walking him and had gotten immediate response down him and Zesterra. We got Dude through it but it was pretty stressful there for a bit. Toni went and spent the night with grandma, mom had been there during the day. Mom checked Dude every few hrs and I was on call. Thomassans came down and picked out a couple of Hereford steers. They were picking them up later in the week, so Ben and Anna put their EID tags in. The boys helped feed grain since Anna was selling steers.
Toni checked in the morning, nothing new. Dude was still fine. All of the kids except Kaine had FFA practice after school. So he did chores and when the other kids got home they helped him. Toni and I got Mage and Duke in and got them ready to leave the next day. Ben and Anna got the cows in to get ready to sort on Friday. We are also still working on Smo and Jexy. Even though they are pretty much perfect, they still get their week of halter breaking, need it or not. But seriously they are pretty much perfect. Smo does not like her feet picked up and that is the only issue with her. Jexy doesn’t like it when you put a halter on him, he is more of a leader than a follower. As Toni wants to keep him as a stud prospect we need to get him beyond that mentality. Toni also wants Smo off of the for sale page. She is priced at $15,000.00 so I think it is pretty safe. Toni is trying to claim Smo as her next horse. I also claim her so we will see.
On Friday Ben, Toni, Marlo and Anna sorted cows, pulled CIDRs and then semen tested bulls. In addition, Andy and Ilene came and picked up Duke and Mage. Duke and Mage really hadn’t loaded before so they were a touch resistant to load but so smart. They didn’t freak out at all just didn’t think they could get their feet picked up that far. Toni put a rope around Duke’s front foot and got him to step up. They ended up having to pull both of Duke’s front feet in to get him to load. Mage they only pulled one front foot up then he jumped in. But Mage had been loaded with his mom before so he kind of knew about it. We are excited for Andy and Ilene. Both of those colts would have been keepers if they had been fillies. But I think we say that a lot about the foals. We pretty much like them all. Duke we may have spoiled a tiny bit. So they had a busy day. Coffey Refrigeration came out and worked on fixing the freezer. We continued working on the Smo and Jexy that night. Mom went to grandmas. Dad went to Tri Cities and brought me a coffee at work.
On Saturday we got our second foal- Ro had a filly by Gunner. We are super excited about her. We got up early Saturday and gave the cows their 2nd day shot to be ready to AI on Sunday. Then Anna and dad took the two Charolais cows to Alan’s to get bred, one of the cows is Alan’s, so it is not coming back. Kade went to trap and did really good, then him and Kicker went and picked up a tractor we bought for dad. It is an older Ford tractor. Dad didn’t know about it. It was pretty fun when Kicker drove in the driveway and surprised Dad with the tractor. Dad likes a good surprise. Lane came out and Anna, Lane and I checked cows. Ben and Kaine worked on Ben’s pickup, changing the leaf spring. Anna, Lane and I caught Shorty and loaded her and the two Hereford cows and took them to moms. Then Kaine and I hauled grass bales down. Toni came down and we worked on Smo and Jexy and dad and Kaine fed down the driveway. I stayed with grandma on Saturday night.
Saturday night the cows broke the water line. So Sunday morning early Ben and Anna started to fix it and then went to Othello to get the parts. Leslie loaded up lot 1 for me to bring home, so I turned him out at mom and dads on my way by (we are calling him Uno). Toni had also turned Libby out on that side of the road, and she was happy to have bovine friends. Toni and Kade hauled Stormy and Electra down to ride and Kaine caught Ol Kevin. I guess we went from Big Kev to Ol Kevin. Kaine watches too much Dale Brisby. His cat is named Ol Son and it is a girl cat. We sorted cows to AI and then Kaine and Kade rode out and got 034, the bull in. He was limping so the men doctored his foot for foot rot. Mark and Mike came out and we AIed cows. Then Toni and I went down and turned Smo and Jexy out after one last day of working on them. The boys fed and then Kade rode Friday, Toni is switching Electra for Friday so Kade made sure he could ride her as well. Anna washed her show steers and heifers that night when we got done. Kaine finished fixing the leaf spring on Ben’s pickup. Toni put Electra in with Tank when they got home and moved Friday up to her house. Electra is decent to ride but she is way too mothered up to Stormy. Stormy is great. Both are out of Double so we think they are great. Stormy was awesome at my house on Sunday. That was only the second time she has been hauled somewhere to be ridden. Kade has done a good job with her, but she is a good horse.
As of Sunday we have bulls turned out and our AI program for the cows is completed. We are really excited about the new bulls we used for the program as well as the bulls that have such great calves on the ground that we are using them again. This calf crop is truly exceptional and we can’t wait to see how they grow. With the weather finally starting to turn nice it has been nothing but a trial on our patience to wait for the mares to foal. We have quite a few on our watch list. Let me assure you, checking them 10 times per day does not make them foal any faster!
Also a quick reminder for those that don’t know, the facebook page got hacked so we have a new FB page also under KT Ranch. It is a personal page so you have to friend request.
It rained Monday, we had a nice day Sunday to dry out some of the mud, but no more. Toni checked cows and horses and then sorted out 9 poles out of the pile to put on the fence. She texted the boys after school they get to help her get poles and put them up. Jaxsen texted he had FFA practice, but it got canceled so he got to help. Lucky Lucky him. Toni and the boys put up 2 poles Monday night, in the section we already had two in, so we are down to 6 sections of poles to put up. Ben and Anna are still feeding the cows with the tractor due to the mud.
On Tuesday Jaxsen had a dentist appointment, so he got to skip some school. They also took the Pendelton upholstery fabric with them for Toni’s office couch that she is having reupholstered. Toni checked cows in the Am in the mud. She told Monica it was her day to calve, and Monica had a calf by the time Anna got home. Monica is one of our clubby cows. She has a cute black white-faced calf. Toni and the boys did another section of fence. Kaine and Kade both went to help work on friends’ pickups Tuesday night so they took off to go be boys.
On Wednesday dad and mom came to town and brought a coffee too me, they are the best. Guess what, fog and rain on Wednesday, made checking difficult for Toni. She got pics of Charlotte the Charolais, Monica and her calf and 710 and her calf. She told the old cow in the calving pen it was her day, so she thinks she will calve on Wednesday. Kade had agronomy practice after school, but got home in time to help with the fence. The old cow in the heavy pen did not calve, so talking to the cows does not work to inspire them to get with it. We are making progress with the fence, but it isn’t fun.
On Thursday when Toni checked there were a whole gang of calves out, and they were not concerned with her catching them up. They sauntered around. Toni and Kaine had to go and get poles for their fencing project and then put up a few more poles, but ran out of lag bolts. Jaxsen is in charge of the lag bolts so should have probably mentioned they lag bolts were running low. Jaxsen had to have baby teeth pulled at the dentist to get ready for braces. Kaine and Toni weren’t in a good mood after loading 8 more heavy poles and getting them up the hill. Dad had gone to a funeral in St. John so brought home some of Uncle Tommy’s genealogy boxes. It was mostly full of moldy gross stuff but we found one crown jewel. It was a story that Great Aunt Bess typed up in 1927 of a trip she took around the Pacific Northwest with some friends. The story is 11 pages long and super well written and informative. It was also super interesting that on the trip they went and visited the Mastersons in Cle Elum which have been friends on our Mom’s side of the family for generations. So part of life in ag of how we are all related somehow continues. Very interesting and entertaining.
On Friday I worked on the corn field fence until around 11:30, then mom and I went to Cowpath in Othello for lunch. It was really good, we had potato soup, carrot cake and brought donuts back for everyone. Toni went into Connell and had lunch with Evy and Evy’s mom Holly, so she did not go with us. After dropping mom off I finished most of the corn field fence, then went down and we put up more poles. We are getting really close to being done! The CX Ranch cattle sale was Friday in Lewiston. Our agents, Dad and Uncle Joe, went on our behalf. We had a couple of head picked out but Uncle Joe said we were going to love one of the heifers. Toni told him he had authority to make it happen, so we got a new Hereford heifer on Friday. We didn’t see her or any pictures, but we trust Uncle Joe and of course Bill and Kayla. CX Ranch has good quality cattle so we weren’t concerned, but were very excited.
Saturday morning Anna, Ben and I finished the last few things on the fence and then turned the cows out. They were happy. Kade had trap shooting and went to Colton. Terry went up to watch him shoot and brought snacks. After lunch Toni and I got 7 more poles ready to put up and bid on some mares in the Moses Lake sale. We did not get any. We also got grass straw out to all the pens that needed it. We got the poles set out and did chores then went to Tel’s 1st birthday. We were very excited to finally meet Tel. He lives in Wyoming.
On Sunday Jeanie brought a couple of horses out for Kade to ride and get pics of. He is selling one for her. She is a nice grade black mare that will be 8 this summer. She has been broke to ride, used in the mountains to move cattle, and used in general ranch work. She hadn’t been ridden since last November but saddled up great and rode right out. She is a very kind, nice mare. She will be on our for sale page very soon. Anna got Baby Cow into the heavy pen. We got our 2 little girls, Robin and Celeste, weaned and in the round pen. So we are DONE weaning the 2023 foal crop. Toni, Kaine, Kade and I finished the fence, then we all went to the BB Cattle Co Sale dinner. It was a huge relief to get the fence done. We needed that side finalized for a couple of reasons- 1) so we have a good, heavy, nice safe fence on the side that will be closest to other studs so we can turn a stallion out in that pasture; and 2) a good fence because we plan to plant the alley between the pens with native grasses. We already have 2 little trees growing on the hillside.
One project down. 14,345 to go. On fencing projects we only have a couple that have to be done asap. We start the next one next week. It won’t be as strenuous we all hope. We won’t be pulling heavy poles up a hill, so it already sounds better.
KT Shining in Hollywood Filly Sire: KT King of Blue, “King” Dam: A Little Shadie Chic Date Born: 6/23/22 Color: Buckskin Roan Click here for more Pictures Price: $10,000 Shadie has outdone herself once again. She had this beautiful filly by KT King of Blue, “King.” Shadie has been shown on the reining circuit, specifically NRHA taking home the 2006 Reserve Regional Experience Reining Region One. This mare continued her show career earning multiple points. Shadie continued to take young people to the show ring until becoming a broodmare. Shadie is a daughter of Comandalena who has earned over $143,000.00 and 260.5 points. On the bottom side Shadie is a granddaughter of A Little Shady Jac, earner of $17,715.86 in NRHA and AQHA points. Doc Tom Tucker, Hollywood Jac 86, Fritz Command, and Smart Little Lena are on Shadie’s papers. King is out of KT Copper Queen Isabelle, “Izzy,” and by Shining Blue DR, “Bish.” Bish is a very good looking son of Autumnator, who is sired by SMART LITTLE LENA. Smart Little Lena is 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. Bish’s dam is Plum Sparkling who is by Shining Sparkler, a gorgeous palomino son of Reining and Reined Cowhorse Leading Sire Shining Spark.
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