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On the 1st Day of Ranching Welding up Gates
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On the 2nd Day of Ranching Bedding down Animals in the cold, mud, etc.
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And just like that, another week gone.
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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. 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.
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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Last Week in Pictures
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KT One Fancy Gun: Exceptional Bay Colt for Sale
KT One Fancy Gun
Colt
Sire: KT Gunpowder N Lead
Dam: KT Fancy Dualler
Date Born: 4/7/24
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Color: Bay
Price: $5,500
Talk about Eye-catching, this is a smart looking colt. His 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. His dam, KT A Fancy Dualler, was ranch ridden in SE Idaho before becoming a broodmare. She is a wonderful little mare. She has a lot of stamina. Despite her small size, she can go all day long. She is very catty and fun to ride. She is by Just Plain Starlight. He is a son of Tamalight. He is out of Wright on Sugarnic, winner of the Cascade Cutter’s Futurity. Her dam is Tessas Poco Penny. She is a dun daughter of The Dualler. Her lineage includes a Sonnys OO Buck, Docs Adonis, and a Poco Bueno bred mare.
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We have had a great, if rainy, start to 2025. We hope you and yours had a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve and an excellent beginning to 2025. Here is to a great upcoming year!
On Monday the CA crew was out bright and early to look at horses and get Peaches, Joss and Santana and head back to CA. Toni and Kade took them around for the tour. Everyone had a great time crammed into Toni’s pickup bouncing around the ranch to meet all the studs and mares. Later that day Kade rode Jag and Benelli and checked Jon’s cows. Anna and Ben checked our cows, we have another twin, this one we need to DNA, we think it is 801Ms, but not 100% sure. Goldy the Jersey is doing great with her two calves. Kaine and Ben have been working a trailer project, they are making a small flatbed trailer. Kaine and Kade are also catching their Spokane steers daily. Anna and Kade have also put CIDRs in their fall heifers and are AIing them right after the first of the year. Kade has been working on Benelli to get her in shape to start roping off of. Toni started halter breaking the next group Monday night, she thought this was going to be an easy group since two of her “pets” are in this group, Astra and Zell. Guess what, Astra and Zell just want to be pets, not horses. So she is planning on getting in a donkey on Tuesday, maybe two donkeys. North is the third one in, and she did great.
On Tuesday we had another calf, they are just trickling in since the AI cows are done. The CA horses made it home Tuesday morning, they were happy to have green grass and no mud. Toni got the donkeys in on Tuesday and tied Zell and North to donkeys and was the donkey for Astra. We had another twin on Tuesday. Ben, Anna, Kaine and Scarlett expanded the cow fence up to the Old Valley. We went to Connell and had a New Years Eve party in the show barn and played games. Toni and Kade both rode as the weather was decent.
Happy New Year! We let the cows into the New Stalks for New Years, they were pretty excited about it. Toni and I tied Zell and North back to the donkeys and Toni led Astra all over. Astra wants to please Toni so once she figured out what was wanted she has been good. North is also really good, just big. Zell wants to be the boss. I took Jet for a walk about, she did great. Anna and Ben came down and put out grass straw bales, I helped Anna when they got down there. We all went to bed early from being up all night the night before.
Guess what, it rained on Thursday. I did not know what we were going to do without the rain. Ben had to go back to work on Thursday after his month off. He was depressed about it. Anna and Kaine came down to Kennewick to pick up the minis that were at a coworkers house. They stopped off at my work and brought me lunch, and everyone went outside to pet the minis. Except Nikki who was in the lunch room and no one told her they were here. She is still upset about it. Toni went and stayed with grandma on Thursday.
Kade went for a ride on Friday between the rain storms. We have not gotten any good pics of the foals we are halter breaking because they are covered in mud. Toni took them for a walk about and they all did great. Marlo and Kade did chores Friday, Toni was down for a little bit but was starting to not feel well. Luckily the foals are all at a really good spot so she could just mess with them and not have any fights. Chad came out and trimmed the two minis we got back from Bobs.
We tagged the few calves we had this week Saturday morning. Then Anna and I made a feed area for Goldy the jersey in the nursey pen for her calf and her nurse calf. We opened the gate so she can go in the barn and down to the new pen so she has more room. Kaine and Kade tied up their Spokane steers and got weights on their CA steers. They are growing nicely. Then Kaine and Ben put out straw to the cattle around the barn so they had something to sleep on besides mud. Anna and I took flax mineral tubs out to the mares on the desert. Then Kade and I tired to put more cobs in the round pen, we were going to try to put them in Mirage, Copper and Jetts pen, but we could not get in there. So we switched to the round pen, also got stuck. Kade tried to start the Ford tractor, it would not start. So Ben had to come down and pull us through in the Case, but we got them out. Then Kade and I did chores. I led the three fillies while I was waiting for Ben and turned them out.
We had another new calf on Sunday, they are just trickling in now, and we tagged it so we can start out next week without everyone tagged. Then we got some pics of the bulls, or I did, with Murtaugh and Miranda who were not particularly helpful. Kade and Kaine worked on their steers. Anna worked on the two mini weanlings so we could get pics of them. Ben and Kaine then worked on the feed bunk at the top of the hill, the couple little weanlings calves we have have been crawling out, so they added another bar. Anna and I went back out to check and D187 had calved. We got some new pics of the calves. Kade and I got Peeps and Gold Bug in and haltered them and then did chores.
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We had an excellent week full of love and laughter. Thankfulness for the gifts we have received, meaning our way of life and our freedoms.
Bright and early on Monday Kade and Toni hauled Santana, Peaches and Joss to the vet for travel papers to go to CA. All three did great. Gina also went to get a blood test to see if she is pregnant, she did not do great. 5x NRCH champion DID not want to ride to the vet with two yearlings and a two year old. Peaches wasn’t in to go to the vet and was not on the agenda, but the buyers decided they thought they wanted her late Sunday. Luckily she was easy to get in and loaded really well. It was probably nice for Santana to have a buddy. Sheena did ask what color Joss is because everything is so covered in mud. The drive to the vet was really foggy and stressful so Toni and Kade stopped for breakfast sandwiches before they came home. This was the Featherlite we bought first real trip and it pulled really nice. It is nice to have a smaller trailer for smaller groups like this. Chad stopped by to trim Ghost and Jetter before they go to their new home after Christmas. Both did great. Poor Jetter looks like a mud ball since the round pen is so muddy. Toni stayed with grandma on Monday.
Happy Christmas Eve. I took dad in to get laser eye bright and early on Tuesday, we were back by noon. It rained all day pretty much, but we had a short window midafternoon, so we went out to the desert to get Christmas pics of the kids. The horses came running across the desert to get in the pictures. They did not want to be left out. Some were nosier than others. We also had a donkey request, so we caught May and she got a bow. Kade rode Benelli in the rain. We worked on the foals then went to Christmas Eve at grandmas. We have soup and do the white elephant gift exchange. It was pretty bland this year, not a lot of fighting over gifts. However, I did go to the bathroom and Anna had traded her uncle kicker my gift for one he had she wanted. NOT HERS, mine.
Merry Christmas. We had a couple new Christmas calves, including a set twins, Joseph and Mary dad said. We opened presents Erina and Terry came down, we had prime rib, mashed potatoes, rolls, pies, the whole works, after mom made us a big breakfast as well. We played a new game Anna got the night before, that she did not trade for whatever Kicker had. It is Old Vs Young, So Post 1980 born people ask pre 1980 born people questions and vice versa, but we did men vs women, so young and old on both teams. Except the old Skip did not play. Then we played another card game. We had a great and family filled Christmas.
On Thursday we had a few more calves, one of them being mom and Anna’s char x jersey cross heifer calved. Worked on the foals in the mud, since it is still raining. Hauled pellets, hay, corn cobs out, etc. Basically just tried to keep an eye on the livestock and suck up as much mud as possible with the tools we have on hand.
On Friday we had people come out from Montana to look at the three big fillies we have left- North, Peeps, and Kenna. She liked North the best so North gets to come in with the next group. Our new horse showed up, Ruby, and Fabby came home from the trainers. Sold a couple bulls. Had another new calf. Kaine is in bed sick, so we did not see him much. He tried to help with chores and fed some grain before he wore himself out. We had Marlo for chores on Friday. I stayed with grandma on Friday.
On Saturday the same people came back to look again, still North. We had interest in the other 2 as well, one of the other people are also from Montana. Had a few more calves. Kade rode Benelli out to check cows. We got some videos of Peeps for a gal in Montana. Kade jumped on Blueberry bareback with a halter, she did great. We took Jet and Santana for a walk about, they both did great. They look like mud balls from it being so muddy.
A few more calves on Sunday, we got them all tagged. We took Sanatana and Jet on their final walk abouts, well not Jet, but Santana is headed to sunny and not muddy, at least at his new house, CA. We got the jersey Goldy and her calf, Noel, in so Goldy could nurse another calf. We have a couple of bottle calves in. Fabby and Ruby went down to Mom’s house so she could call Ruby hers. We turned Blondie, Smarty, and Kenna out and got North, Astra, and Zelle in for this coming week. Astra and Zelle are Toni’s pets so she thinks they will be perfect. They all haltered pretty good so maybe. We also got Peaches in and haltered so the people from CA could see her on Monday. Then we went and had our annual dinner with our good friends and neighbors where we were served a Hungarian chicken dish that was excellent.
We had an excellent week full of love and laughter. Thankfulness for the gifts we have received, meaning our way of life and our freedoms. We got to spend another Christmas with Grandma in our lives and Skip. There is no blessing greater than our loved ones and we hope everyone had a family filled amazing Christmas with yours.
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Last Week in Pictures
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