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KT Hurricane Hailey
KT Hurricane Hailey
Filly, 5 panel N/N, N/IMM
Sire: KT King of Blue
Dam: KT Easter Bunny, “Peanut”
Date Born: 3/24/24
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Color: Dunskin Roan
Price: $5,500
Hurricane is a delightful dunskin roan filly by KT King of Blue and out of KT Easter Bunny, “Peanut.” Peanut is by KT Heza Pana Dude, who is by Zinks Major Kid and out of Panas May Day. Dude is a great stallion with some unique markings, and has great breeding that includes Pana Dude, Major Bonanza, Skipper W, Skipster and more. Peanut is out of Reeds Dunny Doll, a daughter of point earner Reeds Rangler, with point earners Somethinglovely and Johnny Pine also in her pedigree. She is a granddaughter of Snipper Reed and Pine Doc Smith. Her pedigree is full of performance, cow, show and running horses. KT King of Blue 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. Izzy is out of Captains Double Coy and KT Copper Queen Cleo. This is a filly that was our first 4th generation foal. We were able to show her prior to her injury, and now we use her on the ranch. She really goes after the cows. Izzy’s pedigree includes many greats like Major Bonanza, Sizzlin Hot, Major King, Docs Dee Bar and more. Hurricane is a really sweet filly with a lot of personality. She is loved by all that meet her.
Back to school, I guess summer is over??
The kids did not start school until Tuesday, so they rested Monday. Worked on their steers. Kaine and his friend Cyson got the cows in and sorted off 4 to doctor. Toni had a pod cast so Kade stayed to help her get ready for that, before he went down to help with the cows. Then he rode his horse Stormy around with his new hat. His horse Electra cut her foot on the water trough while we were at the fair, so he did not get to ride her. Kaine with to football practice, so Kade helped Ben doctor the cows. The boys’ good friend Keegan came over Monday night to go riding with Kade, Keegan rode the new horse Boon and she did great. We got our 2025 show steers Monday night online.
The kids all left for school on Tuesday, it was a sad day for us all. Toni had court in the morning. We worked on buttoning up a ride for the steers and Tyler in Ohio was gathering them all up and keeping them until Nathan could pick them up. We are excited to have all the steers bought already. Now we are move on to other things. Like buying heifers… It was really windy on Tuesday, so Kade did not ride, not that he did not want too, his mom was a no. Kaine and Jaxsen had football practice.
Wednesday morning was cold for it still being August. Toni said grandma slept poorly, which never makes for a great day when you were up all night. Kaine and Jaxsen had football practice. Toni and I took a video of Blue Shooter and of the mares in the field.
Thursday was a pretty normal day. Chores, football, working on two year olds.
Marlo got done with work early on Friday, so she worked on two of the Evergreen calves. The two she worked on were great. She also helped Toni do chores, I went to stay with grandma after I got home from work. Again, she did not sleep with best. Anna and Lane got home from Moscow Friday night.
Kaine had football practice Saturday, so he was gone when I got home. Lane was working the FFA booth at Ritzville days, so he was gone until lunch Sunday. We got the cows in, we needed to sort out two of the clubby heifers for Aubry to look at, and something else I can not remember, but we decided to wean the bull calves, so we sorted them too. We tied the Hereford steer to Rosie since he is not leading the best yet. Anna worked on the Evergreen steers and the other show steers we are selling. Kaine and Kade tied up their clubs for next year and Kade tied up his heifer. We did chores.
On Sunday I went out and checked Gunner pen and got some hair from Radiant Rifle and Peeps. I also got some pics of some of the heifer calves. I worked on the riding horse fence, the cows knocked it down so the horses are locked in so they don’t go down by Gunner. Kade went dove hunting. Anna and Lane worked on show steers that are for sale. Toni and I made Kaine come down and help us with the horse chores, since he was doing the show cattle chores and Kade was hunting. Kade has been doing most of the night chores since Kaine and Jaxsen have football, so he needed a day off.
Last Week in Pictures
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Bred Mare w/ colt at side
Miss Ravalii Legacy “Revel”
Bred Mare w/ colt at side, confirmed in foal on 5/12/24, 19 days pregnant. Bred to KT OneShadie Captain
Sire: Snips Silver Legacy
Dam: Ponokas Lass
Date Born: 4/22/14
Color: Dun Roan
Price: 10,000 for mare as a two way or 15,000 as a three way.
Revel is a fancy mare with a lot of depth and bone. She was ranch ridden for a few winters in the mountains on the Riley River Ranch, then brough to us to bred. Revel’s sire, Snips Silver Legacy, is by Snipper Music, AQHA Show H-0/P-3 (Team Penning), 1985 Winner of the Kaniksu Reined Cowhorse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity. Her pedigree also includes Mr Bar None, Sierra Mount, Skippa Lark and more. Kade jumped on her in June after she had not been ridden in a few years and she did great. Bred for 2025 and has buckskin colt (roan?) at side by KT Gunpowder N Lead. Click here for more pictures and videos on Revel. For Revel Pedigree: https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/miss+ravalii+legacy
To put it mildly, fair tired is an all kind of different tired!
The week of Aug 19th – Aug 25th was a fun filled week at the fair, it is known around here “The Best Week of Summer,” or by adults as the Longest Week of Summer or depending on how hot it is, the Worst Week of Summer. Anna started college classes Monday, and Ady decided to not go to the Benton Franklin Fair. We felt like we were short a few steers and kids all week. We only took 4 open heifers since last year they decided to make us clean out our beds, we used to take a whole bunch of open cattle. So it was a pretty light week for us really. Monday Kaine, Jaxsen, Toni and I hauled the steers in, Kade and Kicker took Kade’s pickup to B&W to have a gooseneck hitch put in, then Kicker brought Kade over to the fair. Ben and Kicker did all the chores all week, except the horse chores on two days when Toni and I drove home to dr Copper.
Tuesday was Market, Kaine and Kade were showing FFA this year, so they were first, they did a great job. Kade was grand champion in Market and Kaine was Reserve champion. Jaxsen, Julian and Natalie were showing 4H. Natalie and Julian both made it back to the champion round, Jaxsen was 3rd in his class which had 2 phenomenal steers in it. The funny thing is last fall we had some friends ask us to buy them steers for their kids. We bought some super top-notch steers and Toni said- we are going to regret buying these steers. The Market championship round had 3 of the steers that we bought last fall. They are that good. And one of them beat Jaxsen. Natalie was grand champion 4H. That afternoon the kids went on rides and Toni and I went home to dr Copper and do the horse chores. We got back in time to go to the rodeo and eat dinner.
Wednesday was Fitting and Showing, the kids all did great again. Kaine was Grand Champion FFA in Fitting and Showing and Kade was Reserve champion. It was super cool because during that round the Judge said she kept waiting on one of the boys to make a mistake and they didn’t. She finally chose Kaine due to personal preference because they were both showing that good and their steers were that good. Let me tell you, we were beyond ecstatic to have the boys go back-to-back Grand Reserve/Grand Reserve in reverse. We did get asked if there were more than 2 FFA showmen and yes there were. Natalie, Julian and Jaxsen all made it back to the championship round, and Natalie was grand champion. The kids all did great showing. Jaxsen’s steer, Gunz, that we raised took such good care of Jax. Some of the steers on both days were a bit much, getting loose, running the ring and steady eddie Gunzy and Jax just stood there and did their thing. Super solid. Wednesday football practice started, so Kaine and Max went to football practice when they got done showing. We walked around the fair for a while, got a massage in the massage chair, got a bundt cake sample, shoes polished. Then did chores and went to the rodeo and dinner. We had heard rumors the big boys were wandering the fair with girls, but no first hand knowledge on that. Toni and Leslie also went to Craig Morgan and said it was an awesome concert.
On Thursday the kids went around and learned how to show all the animals for the round robin. Aram and Emmett “managed” the round robin kids. Kaine tried to fire Aram but since he didn’t hire Aram, he couldn’t fire him. Aram and Emmett are really good at managing people and it was hysterical to overhear Aram trying to boss Kaine around to get him motivated. They did a great job. Toni and I went back to do chores right after lunch so we made it back in time for the round robin. All of the beef kids did great, none of them won, and we could not hear the announcer at all from our side of the ring, it was kind like we were the red headed step child (isn’t that the saying??) Our kids all did well though, I am proud of all 4 of them. Then we went to the rodeo and had dinner.
Friday was the sale, Kade, Natalie and Kaine were at the sale of champions at the beginning. Thank you Musser Bros Trucks and Auto, Watts Construction and Wheatland Bank for buying their steers. Then we waited around until last, had lunch, etc. Finally, it was Jaxsen and Julian turn. Ray Poland Construction bought Julians and Les Schwab about Jaxsens. Thak you to all our buyers. Kaine, Max, Keegan and Andrew went to practice on Friday. We went to the rodeo and dinner. Let me tell you, by Friday we were tired. Also, as kind of a fun thing there was a really cool hat booth that had set-up at the fair that had blanks, meaning you get to pick how the hat is shaped. Kade, Kaine, Julian, and Lane all wanted a semi-custom hat and it was really a fun process. Toni bought a pre-formed hat. Super fun to all have new straw hats. Jax got a ball-cap and a sweatshirt because he didn’t pack one. The weather was very moderate this year and it was rainy and windy by Friday.
Saturday was livestock judging, and Toni and Leslie have a good time getting the steer class together and placing them. Toni probably more so than Leslie. It is one of her favorite things. Judging cattle, what is more fun? The kids all did pretty good, Aram was reserve champion in FFA and the FFA team with our kids was 1st. Natalie, Julian and Jaxsen all placed well in 4H. Kaine was at football so did not judge. Manny reserved tables for the rodeo on Saturday night, so we had great seats and Ben, Kicker, Anna, McCall, Marlo and Lane all came. We had a great time. Saturday night is really the only night we get to relax and enjoy the fair like normal people. Other than eating. We eat fried food all week at the fair. Funnel Cake, Elephant Ears, the big Fry square, etc. Lots of crap food.
Sunday morning we got up and cleaned out the beds, packed up our stuff and came home. We all took a nap when we got home, then did chores and cleaned out the camper. To put it mildly, fair tired is an all kind of different tired!
We had a great time at the fair. Got to see good friends, help people, see people, and just let the kids enjoy their last week of summer.
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Last Week in Pictures
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Last Week in Pictures
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Since wasps are the villains of this episode, dragonflies are the heroes.
On Monday we were all tired and maybe suffering from a little bit of heat exhaustion from working cows. Kade still rode Honey at his house, then later in the day rode Joss out of the round pen, she did really well. He also moved her to a hackamore. Toni and I brought For down to the house for Tim and Gina to look at. They bought Gin last year and she has a fancy buckskin colt by Sog, a stallion by Gunner and out of Big Mama. Tim and Gina had their niece with them and she fed the horses and donkeys treats and gave everyone pets. We did normal chores, moved water, petted foals, kept things alive.
Tuesday Kade roped off of all his horses. He is working on his extra steer, since his smokey steer might not make weight. His Hereford steer is doing great for day 2 of being caught. Toni had a long, lots of people, zoom meeting most of the morning then did normal work. Kaine brought dad to Kennewick to pick up his lawn mower, they went to lunch and brought a coffee to me at work. Then dad, Kaine and Kade went and looked at a boat. Toni and I went out to pet foals after chores. We got lots of pictures and sent some of them to Janice, she ended up wanting South for her next foal. It is always fun to have a repeat buyer like Janice. We pretty much know what she wants so we can get her the info she needs to evaluate the foals. We are excited for South to get such a great home.
Wednesday it was hot again. Kids washed their animals to try to keep them cool. They are in the barn under fans. Anna is working on halter breaking a handful of calves to sell as show steers, 3 of them we are taking to the Evergreen sale in October. Kade went roping in the morning. Kade hauled Honey down to mom and dads and him and Toni rode her around. He practiced loading Joss, since she had not been loaded before. Joss is really smart so once she figured out what Kade wanted she proceeded to load twice more with no issues at all. We normally haul our horses around, at least a little, so they normally at least have been loaded with their moms. We are also working on disease panel testing the majority of the foals so we put together a spread sheet and take around snack bags to pull hair and send it off to Animal Genetics. Getting hair out of 40 head of foals is not an easy task. I think we might be 20% done. We didn’t test the ones we plan to keep.
Happy August 1st, I am not sure where July went. Jaxsen came down with Toni in the morning and they brought the yearling colts down again and Toni sold Blue Star. Then they hauled Crystal and Santana in to see Sheena, he has an ulcer in the back corner of his right eye. We used to try to doctor eye issues ourselves but Sheena does such a good job getting that lavage in that it makes it way easier to put eye drops in 3 times per day and get a good heal. The horses stayed at the vet over night to get the lavage and make sure there weren’t issues. Anna and Kaine tied up the calves we are halter breaking. We have some steer calves going to evergreen we are going to take, 3-4 of them. I have not told Marlo yet, so she can get ready to go. They also got some pictures of some steer calves for someone looking for a spring show steer. Kade brought Honey down again Thursday night and him and Toni went for a ride around the alfalfa field. Toni rode Shadie who proceeded to prance around and acted like the green horse, not Honey. Dad brought pizza home from Connell, but Toni did not want any because she thought it was too hot for pizza and had food in the crockpot, so I gave Jaxsen a piece of ours since Toni ripped him off. We also still had bad wasps in our gate into the colt pen, even after using 2 cans of spray, so it is now tied with twine and chained so we can hopefully open it far enough way those flying villains can’t get us.
On Friday Toni had court in Davenport, so she headed north. Kade and Jaxsen ran to Othello to get Crystal and Santana. We had some people come out and get meat, so Anna met with them. Toni stopped at a super cute mercantile on her way home in Harrington. The kids washed their steers and worked on their calves they are halter breaking. Emma came out Friday night to ride Honey, so her and Kade went on a ride. Kade rode Electra.
On Saturday we had lot of people by. We had outside mares leave that are bred, some bull people come out, meat people, etc. We were busy all day showing people around and meeting with people. After all the fun stuff, we got a bunch of the 2 year olds in and started working on them. Wild got saddled and lunged, Holly got a ridden, Tee got saddled and lunged, PBJ, who is 3, also got ridden.
Sunday we got the open cows in to go to Moses Lake to the sale yard. Since we were just sorting those cows off Kade and Anna spent a lot of time riding their young horses in the interim. Kaine rode Shimmer to get cows in, Toni on Friday, Kade on Electra. Anna had Jojo at the house helping Ben sort. We had everyone working together get the cows in and sort off what we needed. Kade also had Honey at the corral so both Anna and Kade rode their young horses in the herd and working on sorting, pushing cattle, and getting their horses to latch onto an animal they were sorting. I am ready for it to cool down a little bit. Even though we were only sorting off a handful it still took most of the day by the time everything comes in, gets sorted, and stuff goes back out. We had a few bad eyes to dr, bulls to move around, all the fun ranch stuff. We were all covered in mud/sweat by the end of Sunday.
Since wasps are the villains of this episode, dragonflies are the heroes. As we have been walking around the ranch at various tasks, the sky has lots and lots of dragonflies. Dragonflies are absolutely cool insects and they eat lots of little insects AND will eat wasps. Whatever we can do to encourage that activity, we will. I wonder if we can start a dragonfly breeding program?
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