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Last Week in Pictures: LOTS of pictures this week.

Posted on May 20, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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We are down to just the last few mares to foal and couldn’t be happier with this year’s foal and calf crop.

Posted on May 16, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Back to the grind after Jr Show on Monday. Kaine and Kade only had a couple days of school and then they were headed to FFA State convention, Jaxsen is home one day longer before he went up. Kaine and Kade are on the Ag Sales Team and Jaxsen is in Food Products (jr high competition). Toni was taking 3 old mares to Sheena on Tuesday to get their teeth floated, so we gathered them up Monday night. Copper was going as well, because as many of you may remember, she somehow got her leg caught in the gate chain last summer as a foal still on her dam, well it is infected again and mom wants Sheena to have a look at it. And Heidi, our mare from TX is going in to get a blood panel, she was exposed to their stud before we got her, so we just want to see what is going on. We caught Heidi as well just because she wasn’t worked with much before we got her. She is just a clean slate.

Tuesday morning dad and Toni took the horses in dropped them off with Sheena. Heidi is open. Sheena says Copper legs looks pretty good, we just need to give her exceed. And Blue was terrible to do floating her teeth, we were all surprised by that (that is my sarcastic voice since you cannot heat my tone). Mr Pickles the donkey went in with Copper since he has been locked in with her while we were gone. He is a great companion animal. Everything got done pretty timely so Toni went and loaded up and came home with them. We are really thankful for Sheena. We moved Absolute to the dog pen in the back yard since she is waxed for the 2^nd day.

I guess Absolute just wanted to foal in mom’s dog pen, she had a bay roan filly by Gunner Wednesday morning. Queenie had a fancy palomino colt by Tank. Full brother to Cowy. Juan called and had time to come out and weld the circle Wednesday. He did a great job, and now we have water back on. Circle 6 was trying to crash on us. Toni showed Juan where the sleeve was needed then went back to work. Kaine and Kade headed to Pullman with the Connell FFA chapter to participate in Ag Sales. They were not leaving until evening, so go to do chores before they left.

The Jr High, so Jaxsen, headed up to FFA State on Thursday morning. I do not recall what he said his competition is called. But they are evaluating different goods, like meats, cheese, chocolate chips? My info is from Jaxsen, he says he is really good at it, he was 5^th at state, so he must be pretty good. He thought he would be in the top three and wasn’t super happy about being 5^th. His team was 2^nd in the state. He says that is why he is so good at making sandwiches. He knows what to put on it. So just us adults doing all the chores for a few days.

On Friday dad and Steve delivered a bull to Oregon. The dogs and I fixed the fence between 5 and 6, the calves were crawling out into the wheat field. We, the dogs and I, took a bunch of pics of Gunners foals, and then we went out and checked Sagebug foals. Toni, Marlo and I did the horse chores. Ben did the cow chores. Jaxsen was home late Friday (12:03 Saturday morning). We had a gal come out to look at Blonde. No, Toni doesn’t want to sell her. The gal really liked Blonde and all the other foals too of course. All of the fillies are obnoxiously tame. And July was out there, so it was a fun tour.

Anna came home from college on Saturday. Butte Red pickup had been up at Chipman and Taylor, so as part of my mothers day present she went and had it cleaned on Friday. It looks really good. Kade and Kaine’s Ag Sales Team was 5^th at State, good job boys! Kade scores a perfect score on the written test and Kaine was 8^th overall individual. Toni showed horses Saturday morning. We have a deposit on BB’s filly. Anna and I got the cows in and sorted the bulls off of the heifers. When Ben got home from work he helped and Toni and Jaxsen came down after lunch. We banded the later bull calves and the black ballie and clubbies. Kade and Kaine got home late Saturday night.

Happy Mothers Day. Freida had a big palomino colt on Mothers Day that looked like he had been in the oven too long. Toni and Mom gave him Nursemate ASAP, which we do with all of Freida’s foals. Ben made us all lunch, bacon wrapped shrimp, brisket, dutch oven potatoes, and he baked two of mom’s peach pies. Lunch was great. Then the boys worked on their steers to get them ready to go to Wheatland this weekend. Toni and I went out and moved Gracie and Queenie in with Tank. Kade and Jaxsen got Opal, Lightening and Mocha in while we were getting the other two in, and moved them out into the pasture. Kaine hauled Venus back to her house, Venus is an outside mare getting bred to MC, and Kaine is dating the daughter of Venus’ owner. So it worked out for her to go home. Lots of work done this weekend.

Mothers Day is celebrated everyday here! Our Mothers make our ranch and our program what it is. We are pretty proud of what our breeding program has done on the dam side for both the cattle and the horses. We are down to just the last few mares to foal and couldn’t be happier with this year’s foal and calf crop.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on May 13, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Spokane Jr Livestock Show, Prom, Foaling, Getting water running, oh boy what a week.

Posted on May 9, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday night the boys packed up to go to Spokane Jr Livestock show the following morning. Toni and I checked. We all did our normal chores. I took some videos of MC’s foals to make a short video. Kade and Toni went for a late ride. Monday was the calm before the storm.

Tuesday mid morning, after we got everything fed and finished packing up the last few things, Kaine, Kade and I headed to Spokane with 3 steers and 2 heifers. We caravaned with three axle gooseneck we met on the highway right out of Connell from Nebraska. He did not get off at the Jr show with us and continued on, probably back to Nebraska. Luis and Aram were already there with their pigs, they helped us get the trailer unloaded. The rest of Footloose 4H got there and we got all set up and got ready to show Wednesday. Both the heifers have been to shows before, so they were fine. The three steers we were a bit nervous about, but the boys had worked on them just enough for the steers to do really pretty well. When we were in line for weigh in, another kid’s steer kicked the back gate, which proceeded to hit one of the volunteers, Jeff, but his cheek open, so weigh in had to be delayed, but everything got weighed in. With the whole 4-H group and our 2 FFA kids the Connell group had 13 head in the beef barn out of the 187 entries. There was also a large contingent of Connell kids in the pig barn thanks to Mr. Palmer, one of our great FFA advisors. Toni had court on Tuesday, so she went home and did our chores, so the men and Jaxsen had one less day they had to cover chores for us, and check the horses.

Got up Wednesday, the heifers showed first, both Baby Jewel and Penelope won their class and made it back to the championship round. Baby Jewel was Reserve champion 4H heifer and Penelope was 5^th overall. We did not take any prospects so did not show again until market. Leslie and Traci kids had prospects and Ady was in the top 5. Two of the steers we got from Ohio won their class and made it back to the championship round. Kade’s Angus steer was 2^nd in class, and 16^th overall, Kaine’s club steer was 2^nd in his class and 13^th overall. Kade’s club steer was 4^th in class. Everyone had a great day. McCall, Terry and Erina all came up and watched the kids show. The weather was super good, everyone was in good spirits and the boys had lots of friends to hang out with.

Thursday started with PeeWee, the steer Kayla normally shows was not great the day before, so she showed Baby Jewel, who was a rockstar. Savannah showed Natalie’s steer, and he was good, but not as good as Baby Jewel. Kayla told Kaine she got Baby Jewel warmed up so she got half of whatever he won in showmanship, she was hoping for a buckle, but he got reserve, so I guess she will have to share a large vest. Kayla is 6 so is will probably be dress like on her. Kaine was reserve champion Sr showman and Kade made it back to the final round. JuJu was 3^rd overall and Natalie was 5^th overall in Jrs. The boys all went and got milk shakes since they did a good job.

Friday Kaine and Kade participated in FFA Ag Sales. This was Kaine’s first ag sales competition with the team, and we hear he did really well. Connell as a team was the top team. There are four members on the team and they are getting ready to go to State FFA next week. Aram held Kaine’s steer in livestock judging. Toni told him he could be a holder or livestock judge. He chose to be a holder which she felt was the wrong decision, but it was the decision he made. Anna came up and hung out with us. Terry and Erina came back to see Anna and hang out with us. And we had time to socialize and catch up with our show families. We have lots and lots of friends at the Spokane Jr. Show. Dad texted that one of the mares foaled, it was Bayley with a mini me filly by Sagebug. Dad and Mom both insisted that the mare that foaled was brown and named Mud, a different mare. But it was clear in the picture it was Bayley, who is a smutty buckskin.

Saturday was the livestock sale. The kids all did great. Thank you to everyone that supports the Jr Livestock show. Kaine helped clean up and then came home to go to prom with Jaycee. Jeana was in charge of pictures since I was still at Jr Show and Ben was working. Dad went to Connell and picked up the flowers. All our steers were loaded out on Saturday night. Terry and Erina came back to watch the sale and we had Tomato Street for dinner. The kids went and played laser tag. At home we heard that Gracie foaled and had a pali foal. We also hear that Doll foaled and had a funky colored foal, maybe a filly. Doll had a bay roan colt, which we found out on Sunday.

We came home Sunday. Toni picked up Cammie from Allies on her way home. Kade and I brought the camper. Because of how the boys had loaded the trailer, the 2 show heifers and Cammie were in the back compartment together. Luckily after the initial interest between the horse and heifers they all settled in for a smooth ride home. After getting home, we went right back to work. Toni had to unload Cammie, fix some panels, check the horses at Mom’s. Once we were all the way unloaded we took off for Circle 5 to see the foals out there. Bayley was her wonderful self, so we just caught her in the pasture and Toni rode on the tailgate of the pickup and we led Bayley to the corral, inoculated her, and put her with Cappy. The little filly is super cute, loves being petted so is probably going to be another favorite. We seem to have no end to the favorites list. After we got done checking everything, we did our normal chores which ended with the end of the day.

We are on the tail end of foaling and couldn’t be happier with the foals we have on the ground. Lots of fun videos of them on TikTok which you can view at @ktranch155

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on May 6, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Lots of new foals this week

Posted on April 30, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Running Sparkles and Irish just did not want to have Easter babies, both foaled Monday. Mom is claiming that Running Sparkles foaled on Easter. We aren’t going to argue about it. Toni took Hurricane Hailey and Mr Pickles (the donkey) into see Sheena Monday to get the vet work done so Hurricane can leave on Saturday. Guess who was harder to load, not the yearling filly who had not been loaded in a while. The donkey who wanted his nonrelated baby July to come with him. Toni had people out looking at yearlings on Monday. Dad took a bull to Lewison with Steve. Scott needed some pictures of the bulls we have left, so I went out and got pics of the 5 left, now we are down to 4.

Toni took Hurricane back in to see Sheena to get blood drawn for her coggins test and to do a health paper. Kade is working on halter breaking his filly, Texas Red, yes, he calls her Texas Red, not Red or Texas. I am surprised it is not longer. The boys are working on their Spokane steers every night. We leave on Tuesday, if you want to watch them show they show Wednesday and Thursday, if you need beef the sale is Saturday. With the price of beef it might be cheaper to buy it at Spokane Jr Livestock Show then at the store.

CeeCee and Kandy foaled on Wednesday. CeeCee had a fancy grullo colt by Sagebug and Kandy a bay filly by Dude. Everyone went somewhere on Wednesday. Dad, Steve and Skip hauled a bull for BB to Jed in Ellensburg. Bobette, if you are reading this make sure to ask him why he did not stop to see you. Toni went to Pullman with Jitterbug, Pinky and Abs. Then she stopped in Colfax and had lunch with Kimmy, and they named Running Sparkles filly. Then she went to Sonny and Jeannies and picked up the dog food. She came back to show Wild to a person. Kade and Jaxsen worked in Connell at the FFA plant sale after school.

Mil and Dally foaled on Thursday. A grullo colt and a chestnut filly. The boys started clipping their steers Spokane steers and heifers Thursday. Kaine worked at the plant sale Thursday after school. Katana and Red Robin foaled on Friday, two fillies, a buckskin and a chestnut. Chad came and trimmed some feet. Marlo came and helped Toni and Kade with chores and with Chad.

On Saturday Kicker, Leslie and I took the campers up to Spokane to park. I would like to tell you it was uneventful. However, Leslie got a blowout along the highway. We were about 5 miles from the rest stop and so Kicker and I, since we were in front of her, took our camper and unhooked it and then went back to change the tire. Of course all our equipment, like the impact gun, to make it go paster was still in the gooseneck from going to Reno, so we just had the basic stuff that stays in the tool box. And 100% of the vehicles that did not move over to the fast lane were Jeep Wranglers, just throwing that out there for all you jeep wrangler people. Toni and Scarlett got the mare and foals in, wormed them and gave them West Nile. Toni loaded Hurricane Hailey out to go to Wyoming. Ben went to work. Anna, Lane and Katelynn worked on fence all day, replacing fiberglass posts with metal T posts. Kade went and helped a friend with branding Saturday morning, while Kaine got started clipping. Kade got back early afternoon and the boys continued clipping and drying their steers. Anna, Lane and Katelynn moved the cows after they were finished with the fence.

Sunday Whitty left at around 10. Toni, Jaxsen and I went down and finished the Cappy’s fence. Anna, Lane and Katelynn cleaned out the barn and threw a bunch of stuff away. Kaine and Kade finished up with their steers and heifers and then cleaned out the trailer and worked on packing the trailer. Kade came down and helped us move Cappy’s pen down to circle 6. We also got some vidoes on Pine and put out straw bales. Toni and Kade went for a later afternoon ride.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on April 29, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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It was a beautiful Spring week. We had some ups and downs but overall the week was net positive.

Posted on April 25, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Revel foaled Monday, nice red dun roan colt by Cappy. Ashley and Sandy came and got Spark Monday morning and looked at Izzy’s colt, KT Captain Starlight, that is by Midnight Kat DR. Nice brown colt. Izzy would like to be turned out, so she was super great. They looked at most of the foals because Ashley and Sandy are still shopping. The boys worked on their Spokane steers and Kade worked on his Nile heifer and his Simmental heifer.

Tuesday Ellie had a nice blue roan filly by Gunner. When Toni went to look at it, she did not notice her dogs had followed her out of the pickup, and Rosie B, who gets dogs, about ran her over chasing the dogs. So then Ellie and the filly took off, so she did not get any good pics. The weather was super nice and it felt like spring. Kade made a cool bridle rack in welding with the plasma cutter. We lost Huckleberry’s filly on Tuesday. She was fine and then she wasn’t. We assume she didn’t get colostrum. Mom noticed the filly was down, called Toni and they started trying to get her saved. Kade was a big help but in the end it wasn’t enough. When things like that happen with a mare on her first foal, especially when the foal goes down around day 3, we give the next foal colostrum just to be safe. The reality is that we can’t control everything, but we try to manage the things we can control. There could have been any number of things wrong with the filly, things we can’t diagnose or see. We just have to do our best, and many times our best isn’t good enough. Everyone in the livestock industry will tell you the same thing, it isn’t for the faint of heart.

Wednesday was Toni and Kicker’s 20 year anniversary, so they went on a short vacation for a few days. Ben took our last Hereford bull to Wilbur to Wagners. We only have a handful of Angus bulls left for sale. Marlo came and stayed with the boys. Marlo and Kade did most of the horse chores, I just had to feed the old mares when I got there and go check. So I helped Ben move the skidsteer to the next circle to chop more Russian Olive Trees and we put the bulls back in their pen. They got the hot fence down and went on a walk about.

Zoey foaled on Thursday, a nice palomino Filly and Twiggy had a fancy chestnut filly, both by Dude. Kaine took the puppies to Sagehill Vet to get their first shots. Puppies were tired after a long day. Anna and Lane came down for the weekend.

Kade went to Wenatchee for state trap, good luck kids. Toni and Kicker were meeting them there from their anniversary vacation. Anna and Lane worked around the ranch, fixing fence, etc on Friday. We had an outside mare get dropped off on Friday, I went to grandmas so Anna showed them around and showed them the studs. The mare has a cute colt at her side by John Grey’s son of Gunner. They picked Cappy to put her with, and Huckleberry must have known she was his aunt, she followed them around.

Saturday was the 2nd day of trap shooting state. We had some rain first thing in the morning, then the wind came up later. Jaxsen and Kaine worked on their steers. Anna and Lane continued fixing fence. Ben was running around getting the circles running. I checked the horses and cows, then moved the yearling colts, MC’s pen and Cappy’s pen. After lunch Jaxsen helped me get the mares in and we ran the 3 going with Gunner across the top of circle 5, Lane and Anna helped us with them, then we hauled Zoey out with Sagebug and Twiggy down to Tank.

Happy Easter. Meachams went to Moses Lake. Hammers came to Connell. Mom, Erina and I went out and checked foals between dinner and dessert. Anna and Lane headed back to college. We all did chores. Irish was waxed up all day but never did give us an Easter foal. This is one of the first years we haven’t had an easter foal in a long time. Last year we had Peeps and Copper on Easter, Marlo gets to name the Easter foals since her birthday is in September, so we are not foaling in September. It is probably for the best we didn’t get an Easter foal. The Easter names are pretty used up. One year I think we just named the foal Easter. But with Marlo naming them, maybe they will be freshened up.

It was a beautiful Spring week. We had some ups and downs but overall the week was net positive. Easter is a great reminder of sacrifice along with forgiveness, so a perfect end to the week. We were able to spend Easter with our family, and that in itself is a blessing.

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Yes, it is already getting close to summer!

Posted on April 17, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was a pretty but stormy day. The boys were still on spring break Monday, so they loaded bulls for Dad, Steve and Uncle Skip to take to Wagners in Wilbur. Then Kaine rook Riggs in to see Sheena at Sagehill Vet, Riggs was looking anemic as she had the puppies. More cows decided that they were done being out on the sagebrush, so required someone to go get them in. Luckily the boys handled that too. The kids also worked on their cattle to get ready to go to the next show, which is an Angus show. We are still supplementing July, the baby jack. Kade had a friend out for dinner on his last day of spring break.

Tuesday morning Toni got up early to go into the school to take pics of the FFA Officers. She took a lot of really good pics. I got to edit them. 17 of the mares got the gate open to get out into the desert, so Toni got them in. She was not impressed with Piper D. Piper D was not ready to go back in. She also had some trouble getting some panels open to get 4 of the mares back in so had to just take them all down and set them back up one-by-one. That ended up taking quite a bit of time. Mom, Dad and Skip went to Davenport on Tuesday to meet Luanne. No new foals when we fed that night. Toni went and stayed with Grandma.

On Wednesday when Toni went to check Izzy had a brown colt by MC. She got to scratch him. Yo was acting off, so she went back down to check later and she had to pull it. The MC babies are pretty good sized. Kaine came home sick, he had a head cold and was disrupting class coughing so they sent him home. But he was on call to help. Toni called him to come help, then told him she had it. By Wednesday, July really didn’t want to be supplemented anymore on the milk, so it was a fight to get him to accept the syringe. Toni told Mom they are giving it up.

Toni had people out on Thursday. Some to visit with, some to look at horses. She finally got to meet her friend Tecla in person, they sometimes practice law together on bankruptcy cases. Tecla brought her kids out to see the livestock. The girls got to pet the donkeys, the foals, and a bunch of the ex-show heifers that thought kids feeding them was a great plan. The girls also got to play with the puppies. The puppies get quite a few visitors. Mom made the girls some cute bags with her sublimation printer. We then had a couple of other people out to look at yearlings and foals. They plan to come back out after we have a few more on the ground. Overall it was a good day!

The mares did not foal Thursday because Toni was down in the circle too much with all her people. Piper D had a fancy dun filly by Dude and Huck had a cute bay roan filly by Cappy. Chad came out and we trimmed some horses before we headed to Ellensburg. The kids had the trailers packed and headed out. About 8 miles outside of Othello we came to a car wreck, we got turned around and headed towards Moses Lake and went to Ellensburg via Moses Lake. We still made it. We got set up and stayed with cousin Bobette and Ryan. Apparently, Toni had been starving Jaxsen for DAYS and he ate them out of house and home.

We were up early to show Saturday, and actually not even that early, it was a blow and go show and did not start until 10, so only 5:30. That’s a pretty late show morning. Showmanship was first, youngest to oldest. Jaxsen and Daffy did great. Kade got called back in Intermediate. There were only 3 Srs so Kaine showed as a Sr, Anna was Grand Champion with Hazel and Kaine was Reserve with Baby Jewel, who actually did not show that great for her. Bred and Owned steers were next, Jaxsen had Daffy Duck. They did great. Ashley Henry had a steer she bought from us at the Evergreen Sale. Her brother showed him in PeeWee showmanship, and was Reserve Champion. He is a great steer. Ashley and the steer were third in their class. Anna’s cow and calf were Grand Champion Cow and Calf, the heifer calf won her division, Kaine’s bred and owned heifer won her division. Shortbred (Anna) and Cookie (Kade) were Grand Champion and Reserve Champion in their divisions. Baby Jewel (Kaine) was third in her class. Hazel (Anna) and Blossom (Kade) were first and second in their class and Hazel was Reserve Champion in her division. The Henry kids helped us pack up after they got theirs packed and we headed out. Leslie and Julian were in Davenport showing, and they picked up Kade’s Nile Merit Heifer sign. We got home in time to do chores and check horses. We also had people out to look at the yearling colts. A friend of the family, and we were sad to hear her dad had passed away. He was a good friend to our Grandpa.

Another new foal on Sunday, Rosie B waited until we got back to foal. Toni showed horses again on Sunday, so Anna, and then Kade, helped me move mares after Toni helped me get them in. Busy day catching up from being gone. The two big boys are now working on the cattle they are taking to Spokane. Jaxsen doesn’t plan on working on anything, but got told that he needs to change his attitude. Anna continues to work on her cattle. Due to the timing of FFA state, the kids will miss the big angus show in Madras. They have too much fun at FFA state. Anna has finals for college and then is hopefully coming home for the summer. Yes, it is already getting close to summer!