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Happy Spring Forward!!! Best day of the year.

Posted on March 14, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

                No new foals Monday. Toni had people out looking at bulls and people out looking at horses. So she was out of the office most of the day showing the livestock off. Both sets of people have been here before and bought from us before so that always makes it easier. Kade and Jaxsen made it to regionals in Ag Sales and Ag commodities, so they were gone there. Toni and Abby (Toni’s Idaho Shagg) did most of the horse chores. I got there in time to help her feed the pasture and then we went and checked mares with mom. Kaine texted us that one of the Hereford cows calved, he actually just sent a pic, and 947. Kade and Jaxsen both were third individually in their competitions and their teams both were first, so they are off to the next level, which I think is State. Toni stayed with grandma Monday, she is still not sleeping.

                On Tuesday Toni went about checking and went down to circle 3. Circle 3 got planted to alfalfa last year but has an amazing stand of volunteer wheat that we are thinking about baling as good cattle feed with first cutting. We just got done checking the desert when Kendel called to tell us we had a new foal in circle 5. Kendel told us the foal was bay and when we got down there, we could tell she was bay. It is always nice to be given good color information. Kendel didn’t tell us that the foal was huge and a filly, but we figured that out.  Shasta has a nice bay filly by Sagebug. No new calves, we are down to the last few cows to calve.

                On Wednesday Ro foaled and had a fancy buckskin colt. It was Savannah’s birthday, so she named him Bolt. This is the second tine that Ro has foaled on Savannah’s birthday. Mean Jean (Savannah Jean) was also born on her birthday. Ro is very consistent. Toni bought a Shiner Named Sioux filly in Tx on Wednesday, she was a good deal and I have wanted one. We had a breeding to Shiner Named Sioux, but Annie did not take last year or the year before, so we are giving up on it. On the National News scene, Toni’s mentor and friend Karen Budd-Falen, an attorney and rancher from Wyoming accepted the associate deputy secretary position for the Interior Department. We are all excited to see what good Karen can do in that position for agriculture.

On Thursday Kaine was getting his Wisdom Teeth taken out, so him and I did that. Toni checked like normal. No new babies on Thursday. After Kaine and I got back and I got him all set up on the couch, I went out and tired to get pics of the bulls, but there was a cow in heat in a neighboring pen, so they all just wanted to stand at the gate and beller and ride each other. So did not get much. I went and got some pictures of the calves while I checked the cows. Then I did Kaine’s chores and fed barn hay. Then Toni and I fed the desert, and she finished our chores, while I went back and helped Ben feed the cows. Kaine was doing pretty well until the pain meds wore off then he was feeling the pain. He had an impacted tooth making it important to get those wisdom teeth out.

                On Friday three horses showed up from Asotin that Toni said she would rehome. Kade rode the two geldings, the mare came off the trailer a little lame. Ike, the 17 hand 25 year old was great. Roanie the 20 year old red roan was Ok, and Honey the 18 year old mare was also ok.  They are all big. Kade and Toni both rode Ike the 25 year old and thought he was really cool. And he is super pretty. I went to stay with grandma and Toni and Marlo checked.  Marlo was excited to see Bolt. He is a really cute colt. And Anna made it home so Marlo got to go and see the puppies along with Anna. Anna is home for spring break so we are all happy to have her home.

On Saturday Electra foaled before dad and Kade went to trap. She had a cute red filly. Goldy also foaled on Saturday and had a fancy red dun filly. Toni hauled Ike over to Leslie for Julian to have. We tagged the two weeks worth of calves that we had neglected tagging due to AIing cows. Ben was fast on Saturday and got them all caught. We put out big bales, moved some horses around etc. We had some bull buyers out and they picked Anna’s bull Haul, the bull she showed in 2024. Saturday was a big sale day. Moses Lake was having a horse sale and Toni ended up buying Cousin Leslie a paint gelding that is really gentle. We were also trying to buy some Hereford heifers at a Hereford sale in OR. Toni had her phone going, the laptop, and an extra monitor. The heifers went a touch above what we wanted to spend but we have some other heifers to look at. Saturday afternoon we started putting old open mares out with studs. We like to see if the older open mares that are in decent shape will breed before the herd comes in. We got mares put out with Cappy, Tank, and Dude, and moved Jex and Spark. We decided to give them their spring ivomec and give a west nile shot so that we are getting ahead of our spring work. It was a good start. The studs all thought it was spring so acted like spring fever was upon them but they are all good boys so did fine. After moving everything around we did chores and checked. We are still trying to mess with Bolt every night along with the other foals.

                Happy Spring Forward!!! Best day of the year. We are waiting for the day we no longer have to fall back and just remain forward. Toni and Kade got panels put out at their house and got Electra along with her little filly (Kade is working on names) turned out of the foaling pen. We decided to try to put big bales in all of the corral pens. That was entertaining. We put a tow strap around one bale and pulled it into the pen with a pickup. Another pen we could back in and pretty much got stuck in the mud and had to rock the pickup and trailer out of the mud. We moved Breezy and her colt Mighty back in with the old mares. Now the little guy has room to run around. He needed a bigger pen. Mom went with us to check so she got to see the four foals in the desert then we went and looked at the puppies. Anna was practice loading Rhoda so she can go to her new home next week. She is a pretty little mini but she likes to jump in the trailer. Then we went home to finish chores and finish off the weekend.

Foals are on the ground so 2024 foals have been moved to the for sale page if they are for sale. The 2025 foals are all on the website. Per the norm I am keeping the website as up to date as possible with new pictures and information that we have on the new foals. Currently the count is 2 colts and 4 fillies. For anyone that needs the links:

2025 Fillies
2025 Colts
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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on March 4, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch
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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on February 25, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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There is no better feeling than having a ranch full of family.

Posted on February 15, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

The weather turned cold on us, I guess Jack Frost wanted to remind us it was still winter. Toni sent me a random snap, about how I told her she can not keep all her pets. She has not narrowed it down to 2, the snap had about 10 filles all gathered around her. She is quite the challenge. She also said 5 head of cattle were out from the fence we just put up. There is one small old barbed wire side, Ben said when he got home the cows had found a hole. He fixed that hole and moved the fencer. Toni is also trying to work on Anna’s old show heifer Devo’s calf who is still in the heavy heifer pen. The calf, that Toni is calling Devon but I refuse to call him that, is really tiny so Toni wants Anna to show them cow calf. The rest of us are a hard no.  Kade worked on Wild Monday night. Toni worked on the colts. They are both doing great.

On Tuesday Toni said more cows are out, so they must have made a bigger hole. Do not worry, they are just going to a different pasture, they are not out out. Charlette the Charolais calved on Tuesday, she had a bull calf. Dad named him Alan. Toni told City and Shooter to use their cute face so she could get a pic of them. It was just their normal face. Kade worked on Wild. People around us may have snow, but we didn’t have snow yet. Normal chores but Toni really likes these two colts. She is talking stupid that she wants to keep them. No.

Dad and Skip went and picked up meat at Bryans on Wednesday, mom stayed with grandma. We had a skiff of snow. It was junky. The Central Washington horse sale catalog was out and Toni sent a bunch of us a picture of I think the second lot which is an intact mini donkey. We started a betting pool on what he would sell for. The bets range from $1,000-$6,000 with a $10 buy in. Lord Farquaad was back in so I got a video from Toni with her precious pet and the little filly. She is going to change his name to Young Thug because he respects no rules, like fences. Toni worked on the colts. Kade worked on the horses. Ben and Kaine worked on the cows.

On Thursday Toni went to check her miniature horse pet had crawled in with the show steers. One of the bred heifers pushed him out of the feed bunk a few days ago and he figured out how to crawl out and back in. Now he is kind of a pain in the a** pet. Thursday was cold a lot of time was spent breaking water and feeding and making sure everything had water. For anyone worried about Opal, she has a shed that she basically refuses to go into since she is a range mare, and straw both in and out of the shed. Janette came out to stay with Skip on Thursday, so mom and dad went to town and had lunch. I stayed with grandma Thursday night. We got some pics of Sarge as a stallion prospect but they would like him to be older.

Friday it was spitting snow in the morning. Toni had some meetings then one of her really good friends that moved away came for a visit and brought a homemade chocolate cake. Addy, Coco and Shea flew up on Friday, so we got to spend the weekend with them. We didn’t know Addy was coming so it was a wonderful surprise to see her. We haven’t gotten to see her in the last few years because of her schedule. She used to come spend time with us every summer to show cattle.  I think the kids all had a lot of fun. Anna got home on Friday too.

Saturday was cold and snowy, but do not worry, Addy, Kaine and Kade went riding. Pow Pow, Big Kev (and Kade went and grabbed Minnie out of the field who has not been ridden in at least 2 years and is pretty pregnant).  I do not think the horses were as enthused as the kids. Addy did not bring enough snow clothes, so we were rounding up things for her to wear. We also had her drive around a bit to get used to driving in the snow. She is from CA so unused to snow driving and going to go to Pocatello to college next year. She needs to learn some snow skills. Jax went in the vehicle with her to give her tips.  I hauled down some grass hay to mom and dads at chore time. Toni and I took pics of Shooter and City with our cell phones, since neither of us brought a camera. We also did an Opal update, and next Saturday we will have a live update so people can ask questions at 4:00 on Facebook live. Prince the donkey at Central WA Livestock sold for $6k! So Cousin Leslie won the bet.

Sunday it was cold and snowy again. And Addy, Kaine, Kade, Pow Pow, Big Kev and Benelli went out and got a sick cow in with her calf. They did a great job getting her in and Addy got more saddle time. Anna and I were putting out mineral and we drove over to assist when we got done. Ben was out putting up a hot fence around the pump house, the cows had been rubbing on it. Then we hauled more grass hay down. Got the colts in and left Laroy and Sarge in to work on. We had a bday party for Shea as her birthday is at the end of the month, and so is Addy’s. Then we went to the BB Cattle Co Sale Dinner. At the dinner we had some presents for baby Tel who turned 2. He came up with his mom from Wyoming for the bull sale. We got all of our kids for the weekend.

There is no better feeling than having a ranch full of family. We were missing one of the kids, but otherwise we had all of our kids from far and wide. We sacrifice so much to build a strong family but the return on that investment is well worth it. We had a wonderful week followed by one of the best weekends of the year.

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And just like that, another week gone.

Posted on February 6, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

On Monday we had our first legislative call at work. Lots of interesting bills this year. WA is, I think,  a billion short on balancing the budget, so the message has basically been if there are any fiduciary components, your bill won’t make it through, that is what I heard. Toni has had a big case that has been in the news, and there is an Environmental Crime Bill, that we think is from her case. Toni said that this was a good article for anyone that wanted to know about the case. She will also answer questions if anyone wants to email her- https://www.everettpost.com/local-news/digging-for-the-truth-king-ranch-owners-fight-claims-of-illegal-wetlands-excavation  

Janette the nurse came and stayed with Skip on Monday and dad and mom went to town to run errands, have lunch with friends, etc. A much-needed break. Toni was on the phone late on Monday, so Kade worked on the colts, Buzzy and Fancy Gun. Both need their feet trimmed so are in to get work done on picking up their feet. While Toni was on the phone she kept sending us mares in an auction she wants to get. Mom and I told her if she got them for under 5,000, they had all earned more then that so we felt we were safe. Monday night I found some sunglasses I had gotten for Kaine, Kade and Toni for Christmas, I gave Kaine his.

                On Tuesday I gave Toni and Kade their Shady Ray sunglasses. Hopefully they like them. Toni is continuing to check the calving cows and petting them if their mothers are agreeable. Toni worked on Buzzy and Fancy Gun, both colts did great. One of Kade’s old show heifers, Ramsey, and another cow, 055, were both trying to share the same calf, Ben and Kaine decided it is Ramseys, but we will DNA it to make sure, so they had to get 055 in with the other calf and lock them in the barn. Kaine hooked up the gooseneck for dad after him and Ben fed cows, dad and Skip were taking some beef cows to Moses Lake on Wednesday. Ben and Kaine also got the beef cows in and sorted them and locked them behind the barn.

Wednesday morning Ben loaded the beef cows for dad and dad and skip took them to Moses Lake. Once they were there they saw Uncle Joe had also taken cows to Moses Lake. Uncle Joe already had a lunch date so didn’t go get chicken fried steaks with them. Mom went and stayed with grandma on Wednesday. Toni checked cows and took a video of her Wee Lord miniature horse, since he escaped out into the circle when Ben and Kaine were getting the cows in, and she had to find him. Kade worked on Wild Wednesday night, got on and off of her and rode her around the corral. He ponied Fancy Gun around on Shadie, who is getting old but was fine with it because she got grain after. Then Kade had a Nile Merit heifer meeting and horse chores were not done, so Kaine came down and helped us finish them after he got done with the cow chores. Wednesday seemed long.

Devo the show heifer calved Thursday morning. Toni petted it but Devo was not thrilled with her. The little bull calf is only about 40 lbs but is a healthy little bugger. We were all a bit worried about Devo calving. She is a Primo daughter so we knew she was either going to be a good mother or think her calf was an alien and try to kill it. Luckily she likes him. Toni also tried to pet my bull calf of hers, Dano, but he ran away. Toni worked on the colts, she said they are doing great. Kade tried to ride Wild, but she did not let him catch her, so Toni caught her and left her in. Kade worked on her a bit.  Toni stayed with grandma Thursday night.

We had rain Friday morning.  Chad came out to trim horses. Marlo showed up after a few hours so Kade and Marlo got to help. They did the weanlings Buzzy and Fancy Gun, plus mares, a three year old, etc. They got as many done as they could with the amount of daylight that we have. They all did decently. Fancy Gun is pretty sensitive but they got him done. Kade worked on Wild. He is trying to be really consistent with her and just keep moving her forward. I stayed with grandma on Friday night. Marlo had dinner with Toni.

                Saturday we tagged calves and did prep to build fence Sunday and move the cows out to fresh stalks. Kade had a trap meet in Colton, he said it was cold, he shot pretty good, 3rd on his team. Steve, who owns Gracie, came to see her and Whitty, her 2024 colt. The colts really enjoyed him. I hauled a couple of bales down in the dump trailer Saturday to put out with the yearling fillies and pasture. We took pics of Fancy Gun and Buzzy and turned them back out with the other colts. We ended up taking a bunch of pictures of the colts. They were all intrigued by Tipsy the lgd. Tipsy also tried to play with June the donkey, we aren’t clear if June thought they were playing or not but no animals were harmed with their activity so it was fine. Kade put his 3rd ride on Wild. Kaine and I went out and got an old mineral box out of the desert for my yard and put out mineral tubs. The mares all look good. Kaine wanted Powpow back in so he could start riding her again and I just walked up and caught her. Kaine thought she would be difficult to catch since she was turned out but she wasn’t a challenge for me to catch. Sometimes it is good for the boys to remember that we kind of know what we are doing.

Sunday we got the fence done around the rest of the corn field and turned the cows out so we could stop feeding them. Luckily the weather was really great. Ben repurposed the cows feed trailer to put the wire wheel on it so the cows thought they were getting fed. There was mass confusion in the cow herd for a bit, but then when we started calling them into the new corn stalks they were pretty excited. Fresh corn stalks is more important than their feed trailer. We hauled a few more bales down to the pasture and Kade but his 4th ride on Wild. We got the colts into the corral and got Shooter and City out to work on this week. They both did really well getting their halters on.

For anyone looking for an Opal update, she is holding her own.  We are still in the danger zone but have hope. We are going to try to figure out how to do a live post so people can ask questions.

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KT Hollywood Kandy

Posted on February 5, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

KT Hollywood Kandy
Colt
Sire: Doll Docsan
Dam:  Butter Milk Kandy
Date Born: 4/5/24
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Color: Dunalino
Price: $4,500.
KT Hollywood Kandy is a fun colt, he is curious about everyone and likes to be the center of attention. He is by Doll Docsan, “Leroy” and out of Butter Milk Kandy. Leroy was a stallion with a performance packed pedigree along with a very good disposition. He was a very smooth ride with tremendous talent, beautiful movement and huge stop. He passed these traits along to his foals. He consistently produced fantastic foals with looks, color, conformation and brains. Leroy has produced 1 foal that has NRHA earnings. He also has a 3 year old competing in Western Dressage. This horse was 3rd in Canada in July 2016. It has racked up more 1st place finishes since then. Leroy was sired by Dolls Union Jac- ROM, NRHA earnings, and sired foals that have earnings in excess of $310,000.00 in NRHA, as well as earnings in NRCHA, Buckskin Assoc., and the AQHA world show. Leroy’s dam is Docsan Jeany who has produced foals with earnings in excess of $3700.00 and AQHA point earners. Kandy is another great mare from Dal Dagnon. She has a lot of great old school breeding, Poco Bueno, Oakie Bar, Snipper Reed and more. She is a big built mare with a lot of power.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on February 4, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch
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KT Chex This Doc

Posted on February 2, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

KT Chex This Doc
Colt,
Sire Doll Docsan
Dam:  Sugars Badger Doll
Date Born: 5/4/23
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Color: Palomino Roan, Color Test, e/e, Rn/N
Price: 10,000.
The versatility this colt brings to the arena is unmatched. He is by Doll Docsan and out of Sugars Badger Doll. Sugars Badger Doll is a daughter of Star Chex Badger. Star Chex Badger was a son of Peppy San Badger and earned $6,450.39 in NCHA earnings and a COA. This mare is a fancy bay rabicano. She has Doc Bar on her papers twice. She also includes Doc’s Malbec, Win or Lose, and King Fritz. Additionally, she is a granddaughter of NCHA cutting mare Docs Star Chex who earned over $64,000.00 and a ROM. This colt’s sire, Doll Docsan is a stallion with a performance packed pedigree along with a very good disposition. He was a very smooth ride with tremendous talent, beautiful movement and huge stop. He was quiet and trainable. He consistently passes these traits along to his foals. He consistently produces fantastic foals with looks, color, conformation and brains. Doll Docsan has produced foals that have NRHA earnings, Western Dressage and more. He is a very versatile stallion. He is sired by Dolls Union Jac who has his ROM, NRHA earnings, and sired foals that have earnings in excess of $310,000.00 in NRHA, as well as earnings in NRCHA, Buckskin Assoc., and the AQHA world show.

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. If you are in the market for a horse, come out and tour the ranch before the weather turns bad. Same with bulls and heifers, we have a really good selection of livestock to chose from.

Posted on January 31, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Everyone except me was home Monday, so a lot got done. Toni, Kade and Jaxsen put some poles up between Cappy and MC that had been knocked down and then got some pics of Spark, Cappy, and MC. MC is looking good. So is Cappy. They also took pics of Ink as he was leaving for his new home the next day. He really hadn’t been loaded much so they did some loading practice. Toni and Jaxsen hauled Ink up to my house to get loaded out first thing on Tuesday. Ink didn’t unload very well but other than that did a great job, especially for his first trip on his own. He is a very intelligent colt. Ben, Anna and Kaine got the bulls in to get the last of the bred heifers out. They built a second nursery pen, since the first one was full with the jersey, Goldie, her 4 nurse calves and a 2 year old cow with her sick calf. Kaine and Kade tied up their steers and Kade tied up his Nile heifer. No new calves on Monday, but it was 17 degrees in the morning, so that was good.

Toni loaded Ink out first think Tuesday morning. The hauler was 30 minutes early, Ink jumped right in, so the hauler was loaded and gone before he was even supposed to be there. We have used this hauler many times and they are extremely reliable. The boys went hunting with their friends, so Toni just had Jaxsen to help her. The boys did not have school on Tuesday for grade prep or something. After they got back they caught their steers and heifers. Kade was not feeling great but worked on Gucci to get some fresh air. She was not ready to get back in the swing of things from being off all winter, she felt it was still winter. However, she did really good and is a really nice coming 3 year old. She is still one of our top picks.

On Wednesday Toni checked and petted some of the new calves. She tried to cause drama and told Kade we were taking Queen back. I told Kade he was fine, we were not taking his heifer back. He traded her for a different heifer. Queen was his 2024 show heifer and is about to calve. Ben came home at noon and Ben and Hank semen and trich tested a bull. Toni sent Ben a Tik Tok that if he was a real cowboy he would give a bull a wet willy. So he gave the bull calf that was born a wet willy and said he is a cowboy. See video below. Toni did not need to tie Alotta to June on Wednesday, she was great. Toni stayed with grandma Wednesday night.

On Thursday Toni checked, and the bulls were in the heavy heifer pen again. Just two this time. Queen had calved so Toni had to go and pet it. And lead her pet, the Wee Lord, around. I have great employees at work. They gave me flowers, a bracelet with KT engraved in it, a pinata, donuts, and we had lunch for my birthday (which is really on Friday but that is my day off). I felt appreciated. Billy from TLC came and butchered a steer that we had sold. I stayed with grandma on Thursday.

On Friday I got home from grandmas and checked the cows. Three calves were born on my birthday, I named the first two Steveo and Danno, from Hawaii 5-0. Toni, mom and I went to the Brunswick for lunch, I had not been there in a while and it was really good. I came home and Kaine and I checked the cows again. He got out and petted Steveo and Steveo’s mom, 4I, one of his show heifers. Then Kaine and I fed the cows. Kade, Marlo and Toni all rode  Blueberry Friday night, we had someone coming to look at her on Saturday. She did great. Anna and Lane got home and Ben brought Checos home for dinner.

On Saturday we went out and checked cows, no new calves on Saturday. Anna, Lane and I went and got pics of the bulls, or a couple pics of the bulls, they were in the Russian Olive trees. We tagged calves, Ben, Lane and Kaine tagged Ben’s crazy long horn’s calf. Anna and I refused to assist. Kaine, Lane and Anna moved the minis up the hill, they were bothering the heifers. Toni and I did a new video of Opal. We had buyers out that ended up buying Blueberry and taking her home. They were a really good fit for Blueberry so we are excited to for them. Kade rode Jag and continued to work on the horses. We also had a buyer come out and look at the heifers and picked five of the reg heifers to buy.

On Sunday Anna and I checked, Ben was cooking for everyone to come down for lunch, Kaine was cleaning the house and Lane was doing home work. We got some new pics of calves, some pics of some eagles and some pics of heifers. Terry and Erina came down for my birthday party. We had bang bang shrimp and chicken, brisket, baked potatoes, rolls, strawberry trifle, caramel cheesecake and a layered cookie. It was all great. Then Jaxsen and I put out grass bales. Jaxsen and Toni got in the yearling colts, while I was getting the bales loaded by Ben, and Toni haltered Buzzy and Fancy Gun and left them in to work with again. Kade took his pickup to get looked at, then I helped him with his chores. Kaine and the men did the cow chores.

                The ground has frozen, but the weather has remained decently pleasant. It has been really fun to have this many groups of people out to look at the ranch. Normally the winters are so bitterly cold that no one wants to come see us, but this winter, at least so far, has been pretty mild. If you are in the market for a horse, come out and tour the ranch before the weather turns bad. Same with bulls and heifers, we have a really good selection of livestock to chose from.

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The only way to make a good horse is to breed a good horse then put in time and effort.

Posted on January 24, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

On Monday Toni was finally back to checking the cows. We had two new calves on Monday. Toni got out and petted the black ballie out of one of our Hereford cows. Kade’s calf out of his old show cow Akie was stalking her. Toni said she was going to claim it, but Kade probably will not let her. Toni got June in on Monday and tied Peep up to June. It was not worthwhile, Peep followed her around. Peep is just really big. She may be the biggest foal we have, but North may be bigger. I told Toni she could not keep all her “pets” she was going to have to pick some to sell. So I think she is agreeing to sell Gold Bug, or maybe it depends on the day. All 3 bottle calves are nursing Goldie, the Jersey/Char, and then Ben supplements whoever is still hungry with a bottle. 

Dad and Skip went to Pullman with dad’s car to get it serviced. Toni checked cows, we had two new calves, Toni only got out to pet the one out of the Hereford cow. She tied Gold Bug to June Bug. The heifers, or something, went through the cornfield fence on Tuesday, none of the heifers were out, so maybe it was not them? Ben got the perimeter fence hot Tuesday night, so the heifers could get into the duck pond, but they were still in the corn field. Toni practiced loading Alme so he could go to the vet on Wed. He loaded like it was no big deal even though he had never been loaded before. The sunset was great on Tuesday.

On Wednesday Toni and Skip checked cows. Anna’s cow 041 calved and had a bull calf. Toni got out and petted him. She may try to claim that one too. The pen of bulls had gotten in with the bred heifers so Toni had to run out and get them out. Murtaugh and Miranda were out, so she had Abby, Mur and Ran helping her.  Marly and Tipsy were “helping” if you count trying to trip everyone. Then they took Alme to the vet after lunch to get his travel papers to go to Idaho. They loaded June the donkey to travel with Alme, and Alme loaded better than June. Toni worked on Gold Bug and Peeps, both are doing great.

Thursday Toni checked, another new calf. When she checked the heavy heifer, Lord Farquaad decided he was a dog and went with her. Lord Farquaad is the mini colt in with the heavy heifers. Chores were done, foals were worked on. We got an update from the CA contingent on the three we sent down there. Santana is their favorite, but  he was our favorite too. Mom would have kept him if we would have let her.

On Friday Toni had to file an emergency motion. When she checked cows one of our old show cows, Sonny, had calved. Another one of the Hereford cows was calving, but hadn’t progressed so she was just on a watch list. The boys all stayed home from school because it was a ½ day so Kaine went with Dad to get meat. Kade tied up the show calves. Jaxsen amused himself. When Kaine got home and checked, the Hereford cow had still not progressed. Kade came home from riding his horse and Kaine and Kade went to get the calving cow in. They got the wrong cow in. Anna came home from college and called Toni to ask why Sonny was in but without her calf. They all went back out, got the right cow in. Ben was home so Anna and Ben pulled the breach calf. The calf was still alive and doing well.  Marlo came to help with chores. Marlo and Kade fed while Toni worked on the foals. I stayed with grandma on Friday.

Saturday morning Natalee and Brad came and took Alme to Idaho. He is such a good colt. Ben, Anna and I checked cows, then we took Ben home to help Kaine work on the pickup and Anna and I went out and fixed the corn field fence. Ben and Kaine came out to help right when we were almost done. A bunch of the heifers jumped in with the cows while we were fixing the fence. After Natalee and Brad Toni had people out to look at Ink. Kade and Kaine tied up their Spokane steers and Kade’s Nile heifer. We hauled Dancing Bug to my house, since she was leaving after dark. Toni, Kade and I got pics of Gold Bug and Peeps, even thought they were muddy, and turned them out. We left Alotta, our last foal to halter break, in with June Bug. We also hauled some grass bales down and put them out. Eric showed up about 7:30 and we loaded Dancing Bug. She had to go up a ramp but after some initial concerns about it, she loaded really well. We had Tulip there to keep her company, so we unloaded Tulip before Eric left because no one is getting our Tulip.

Sunday morning we tagged calves first thing. Then Kade hauled Friday and Benelli down and we got the cows and heifers in, to sort the heifers off. Anna, Ben, Kaine, and Kade got all the cows in, sorted the heifers back off and got everyone put back out where they needed to be. The boys pushed the cattle, Anna and Ben had bales and led the cows to the corral. This was the first time Kade sorted cattle on Benelli and she did great. Kade and Benelli are really coming along as a team. Kaine rode Friday that is the Toni/Me horse and he should feel lucky we let him ride her. Toni and I worked on Alotta.

We are really excited to be halter breaking the last of the 2024 foals! It is a great feeling to know we are going to get done before the 2025 foals show up. We will continue to work on them for a few more months, circling back to those that needed more work or are going to ship out. The only way to make a good horse is to breed a good horse then put in time and effort.

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