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We had a tough week this week, we lost three of our special old mares

Posted on December 27, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

We had our last club calf on Monday, Kade’s cow Kissy had a heifer calf by Trump Train. Toni isn’t happy because I will want to keep it and we will have to argue about it… Anna has been loading up the left over silage from weaning the calves and hauling it out to the heifers in the dump trailer. She is almost done with that, and next she will have to clean off the pad behind the feed bunk. She got some pictures of the yearlings heifers and miniature horses while she was out and about as well. Kade rode Joss through the water and opened the gate on Monday, since the sun was kind of out. Toni and Kade worked on Jetter, Shooter and Piney. Piney is the only one that got hooked to the June the donkey.

On Tuesday Fatniss, who is no longer fat since she is not a show heifer, calved. Our two new heifers from Blue Drifter showed up, Anna got a chance to talk to Gail and Eric for a bit. Kade worked on Joss some more before she heads to CA. Toni and Kade worked on Jetter, Shooter and Piney. Piney is the only one that got hooked to the June the donkey, for the 2^nd day. He is actually really soft and supple he just doesn’t want his head touched so that annoyed Toni. Jetter was letting the first day so probably won’t get the donkey. Shooter doesn’t understand how he went from the favorite pet to actually having to do something. McCall came over and gave Toni and I Wilbur Ellis jackets for being customers. We are really proud of her and are thankful that we can support her and have her as our fieldperson/agronomist.

Anna got a bunch of calf pictures Wednesday when they checked. Her and Ben got some more stalks fenced off and the cows ran over, so Anna got lots of pics. Shooter got tied to June on Wednesday, all three foals lead great. It was a stunning sunset Wed so Toni took some pics o the foals with the sunset behind them.

More calves on Thursday, we have slowed down a lot but the cows that did not take to AI will start calving here soon. The weather is still holding, so hopefully we can get a lot more before it breaks. Kaine and Kade put corn cobs in the round pen, Anna and mom were going to do it, but Ben did not think they could I guess? But Kaine and Kade made it. However, they do not drive as good as me so they could not get in through the blue gate. Both big boys came home from school early due an assembly and overall “boring” school day with it being the end of the week near Christmas break. Kade went and grabbed Jag and went on a ride and rode Joss.

Anna and mom went to Othello on Friday, dad and Skip went to Pasco and visited Traci and the girls. Toni arranged the vet appointment for Joss and Santana to go to CA, they are headed to see Sheena Monday morning bright and early. Marlo helped Toni with chores Friday night and led the foals, to make sure they don’t have stranger danger, they did really good. We had a few new calves on Friday. Kade rode Joss. Joss has been a really fun horse for him to start his young horse breaking and selling side of things. We don’t necessarily want him to focus on that but we are fine with him doing a few per year. Joss had some challenges but is extremely smart, athletic, and able. We are excited to see what her next chapter is like.

Saturday was pretty rainy, and cold because you were wet. We checked in the morning and tagged calves. The Twins stopped by since McKenna is home for a few days from Kansas. Kade and Kaine tied up their steers. Then Kade and I went out to the desert to put out protein blocks, and Kade is going to ride Benelli since she is open. Ben loaded some grass straw onto the flatbed so then we put out hay. Ton’s godson Tate came out for a bit and rode around with her. We led the colts and Jetter around on a walk about, they all did great. Toni and I fixed the down poles (due to jerk face young studs) at the corral. I stayed with grandma.

On Sunday we finished tagging the calves. Baby cow, Kades show heifer, calved, so Toni called the shipper who hauled her for us and named her Baby Cow, and now she is mama cow. LOL Ben and Kaine took Kaine’s pickup to Raymond the mechanic. Kade rode Benelli around, and Jag. Toni, Kade and I practiced loading Joss and Sanatana since they were going to get their travel papers Monday morning early. Kade and I took the colts around back to put with the other colts and Toni led Jetter around. Then we got in Kenna, Blondie and Smarty to halter break next.

We had a tough week this week, we lost three of our special old mares, Rudy, who was a 1999 mare, Cleo, also a 1999 mare, and Comet who was only a 2000. Love is never a burden and those old mares gave us everything they had. Cleo and Comet have been with us since birth and we raised their mother. We are thankful for the time we did have with them all and thankful to Tina for having the faith in us to let us have Rudy for the years we had her. All left their mark at KT Ranch.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on December 17, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

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December always reminds me of the Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton.

Posted on December 13, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was Jaxsen’s first basketball game since Hawaii, he had to get enough practices in to play. Toni said he was in the top three in scoring and they won by one point. Great job. Ben is home until 2025, he cleaned up some around the place, hauled some of the silage out to the yearling heifers, filled up the garbage cans, etc. Toni said of the three foals, one was really easy, one was medium, one is giant so you cannot pull him around so he went on the donkey. The donkeys were being a hole and she could only catch one donkey, so I guess it is good she only needed one donkey. Mom, dad and Skip took Susie to Moses Lake to get her hair clipped, and went out to lunch and got groceries.

At work on Tuesday it was foggy, but Ben sent me some snaps of the calves, and it looks sunny at home. It was dark when I left, but was not foggy when I left or when I got to work. Grumpy, Kade’s show heifer from a few years ago calved. She still looks Grumpy. Toni texted me a pony saddle bundle from Teskeys- we don’t have any children that ride ponies so not sure what she is wanting. I think she wants to adopt a child. Not a baby, a child. Toni took Kaine, Kade and Jaxsen to the steer of merit program on Tuesday night. It was clear over in Richland, and started during Hanford rush hour. It is great the program is back on, but it would be nice if it were in Connell, since it is only for the Connell Show. Benton Franklin Fair is refusing to participate. A steer we raised made the criteria and a steer we found for a kid was in the top end. ALL kids get money for going so totally worth it. Prior to leaving Toni worked on the three foals, Sarge was put on the donkey again. He is just super big. Peaches and Buzzy both were able to be led around on day 2. Peaches is soft enough she leads really well. Lots of flex, softness, but also lots of attitude. Buzzy is just a solid super sweet colt.

Ben and dad took a load of heifers to Moses Lake sale yard, we had a lot more heifers than bulls this year so we picked a handful to take in when we bangs vaccinated. Toni helped Ben load and the wild b about knocked Ben down but loaded fine the second round. She didn’t video it because the mud was deep and she was wondering if she was going to have to run in to help him up. Luckily he was holding on to the gate so did some gymnastics but didn’t go down. All the other heifers are decently docile. They sold really well and we are thankful to our buyer. He had been out to the place and viewed the heifers prior to the sale. Then they went into Moses Lake and bought a panel and water trough for the pen we are making for Bell. Also a pallet of tubs for the broodmares. Double N Ranch Supply had everything ready for them. Then went to get Dad his gun safe he had bought. So a very productive trip. Wednesday morning I went to Spokane early to spend the rest of the work week there for a water conference. The calving is really picking up, with the AI cows starting to calve. We are getting a couple each day right now. Toni tied the three foals up, they all did great.

I think Toni said Jaxsen had basketball games Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, so Thursday was his last one of the week. He has been playing great. He is very tall, lots of rebounds, assists, and shots taken. Toni took the three foals out for a walk about on Thursday. She is done using May the donkey so May went back out. Even though Sarge is huge, he is good minded. And he likes Toni so leads really well now that he knows what is expected. All three tie, lead, and are getting exposed to stuff. Specifically dogs. Toni went and stayed with Grandma Thursday night.

On Friday I came home from Spokane around noon. I went out with Ben to tag the calves, Friday the AI cows really started calving and we had 8 calves on Friday. We had to get 530 and 639 in, 530 did not want her bull calf, she wanted 639’s heifer calf. Marlo came to help do chores. It was good for the foals to be exposed to a new person. It didn’t go as well as Toni thought it would. Stranger danger. We got some pics of Sarge and Peaches. Marlo took Buzzy around. Then we put in the panel Dad and Ben got to finish up the Bell pen. Now we just need straw and to move Bell into the pen. We have all the stand alone panels up and have reconfigured that pen. It is really nice and looks good.

Toni went to Colville for the Steven’s County cattlemen’s annual meeting on Saturday, so she left mid-morning. She took Reno (the puppy) up with her to give to Jeff. We had been keeping Reno for Jeff until someone could meet him with her. Toni had a good turnout and spoke for hours on the challenges facing Ag. Then she went to dinner with a family friend and stayed up in Colville due to road conditions. We had 9 calves Saturday, so we kept tagging, we finished the fence on the far side of the New Valley, so we called the cows to the fresh stalks. Kade and I did chores, Kaine was snowmobiling, Anna stayed at U of I for the weekend to study for finals and Jaxsen was sick.

Our 2^nd Youth foal left Sunday morning, Skippy went to Rowan, and Skippy is now Scout, because she actually already had a Skip with similar breeding. Kind of funny. Mom thought that was pretty slim odds. Then back to calving, tagging and trying to keep all of the cows with the right calves. We almost got mom’s Hereford Princess in, her water bag broke and 30 min later we were setting gates to get her in and she calved. Kade tied up his Spokane steer. Kaine got home, and we loaded up big bales to take down to mom and dads. Kaine and Kade put out big bales. Toni and I started getting cockle burs out of the yearlings, then Kade helped us finish when we got done. We started moving horses around because we need to split the weaning colts from the fillies. Big bales went out, yearlings went out into the big pasture, Joss was moved into her own pen, and Copper got put in with Mirage. Lots of changes! It was fully dark by the time we got all that done so we didn’t get new foals in. That will have to wait a day. And we didn’t get the colts moved. But lots of progress.

December always reminds me of the Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton. Our mom made many of our clothes growing up, but that made us feel special. Mom actually made a coat for herself using patches cut out of old jeans that were worn out and she still has that coat. December is always a month that brings wonderful family filled memories and stories. On the horse side of things, we have coats of many colors- we have foals in almost every color. The pens of foals are stunningly beautiful with all of the pretty babies. Lots of options to fill that request for anyone that wants a foal under the tree! Come see us to really make someone happy with their gift.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on December 10, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on December 3, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

I found some old pictures on Toni’s camera, back from when we could still wear T Shirts.

And now the ones from Last Week.

Loved hearing the Life is too short to ride an ugly horse quote on Yellowstone this week. Of course we agree with that!

Posted on November 29, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

Happy Happy birthday Anna. Marlo went up to Moscow on Monday and had lunch with the birthday girl. It is a good thing we got the cows worked, they started calving. We had one over the weekend, and 4 on Monday. The cold wind also came on Monday and it has definitely started to feel like fall/winter. The weather has been pretty good until Monday. Kaine, Marlo and Ben did chores. Dad and mom took Skip to the Dr. Yes, Uncle Skip is still living with our parents. We wish we could say he was getting better or improving, but we can’t say that.

Happy Happy Birthday Toni. Tuesday I left early to go to Othello to get cupcakes for the all staff meeting at work. We had a great staff meeting and I took cupcakes home for mom, dad, Skip and Marlo. Marlo and Kaine did chores and Marlo filled us in on her going to Moscow to have lunch with Anna. She did brave bad weather to make Anna’s day special. Mom stayed with Grandma on Tuesday.

On Wednesday the Meachams flew home from vacation, it took all day, it was around midnight when they got home. Kaine did chores on his own, Marlo headed to her next house-sitting appointment. Kaine has been going to school early to do weight lifting with the football team, if he wants to try out for team captain next year he has to go in early. It takes a bit to get him going in the morning, and Lynn is not happy with her sleep-in buddy not sleeping in. Lynn is the mini aussie.

Thursday everyone was back at school, work, etc. Kaine asked if he could go snow boarding with his friends on Saturday since Kade was back to do chores. I said who is the adult, Jay is, not my cousin, his friend Danny’s brother. I said Jay is technically an adult and so was adultish. So I checked with Jade to see if Max was going and Josh said that Jay is very responsible. So we will see if he goes a second time. Toni went down and did chores. We had left two colts, Cowy and Whitty, in the roundpen so she messed with them a little bit. Thursday we also had a harvest date for four of the steers but it was canceled after we had the steers in. Toni went down to let them out and lost a shoe in the mud. It has gotten really muddy since she left. I don’t know that she was happy to be back, but we have work to do. Kade got home and helped with chores.

On Friday Toni went down in the morning and got Hitter in, that is the first youth colt. She had to get him in out of the weanling pen, sort him out, then get him haltered. Makayla, our first youth kid, got to the house about 10:30. Hitter was great, loaded like a champ, and due to weather didn’t stay long before they headed back home. Hitter has been one of our favorite colts this year, I mean they all are, but Hitter has been great and we are excited to see how Makayla does with him. He is a really fancy red dun colt with a good mind, so hopefully she will do well! Then about 1:30 Chad showed up to start trimming. Toni was wearing uninsulated boots so I guess her feet got colt. They first trimmed Breezy. Breezy was out in the winter pasture but somehow had gotten hurt, when we brought her home she fell down in the trailer and almost smashed me when we were getting her out. We have been really trying to baby her along and monitor her. When Chad was out, we realized that she may have hurt her pelvis when she fell. Breezy is doing way better, but things take time. She is in a good condition at this point and in a pen next to the house so easy to watch. After that, Gina got a trim, then they took off Copper’s plastic shoe. Copper has improved so tremendously that we are hopeful for a good recovery. Toni posted a tiktok video on the shoe removal which we also have on the KT Ranch tiktok. It was mostly just getting the epoxy off because Chad did such a good job putting the epoxy on that the shoe was on there really well. Copper then had the full trim. Holly and Gucci also got trimmed up. Marlo rolled in to help do chores and had dinner with Toni. I went and stayed with Grandma on Friday night, she slept a lot better then she has been.

On Saturday we had our November birthday party for Terry, Toni and Anna. Ben made brisket and potatoes, Marlo made a pumpkin cake and Erina made gluten free pumpkin cake. Kade was sick so he did not get to come and Kaine was snow boarding. We still had a really good little family gathering. The food was amazing, everyone was appreciative of their gifts. The dogs loved having all the people over. After that we did chores. Later that night we found out that Anna was one of the 2024 mentors of the year with the 509 Show Circuit and Kade had show heifer of the year with Queen! Queen is a heifer that we raised so we are really proud and excited of both of these kids. Kade had nominated Anna so that award was a surprise to us, and a good one!

On Sunday Kade rode Electra and ponied Pony out in the corn stalks getting Pony exposed to corn stalks hitting her legs and birds flying up. We got most of the corral dewormed, so that takes care of most of the horses at Mom’s. Toni and I went to Omak for Craig Verjaska’s funeral. It was a long snowy drive, but the turn out to send Craig off was a great one. The family should be very proud of the support and memories of Craig. Ben, Anna and Kaine built fence around the corn field and got the cows turned out and the calves tagged. Then the crew took bales down to Mom’s for the horses just like every Sunday. We feel like we didn’t get as much done as normal, but winter activities seem to take longer.

Loved hearing the Life is too short to ride an ugly horse quote on Yellowstone this week. Of course we agree with that! The 2025 calendars have been voted on by our FB friends and are ready to order. If you want to order one, let us know, if you want to look at the pictures, here is the link. https://ktranch.com/merchandise/

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KT City Lights

Posted on November 23, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

KT City Lights
Colt
Sire: KT Jackpot City
Dam: Pollys Leagurette, “Freida”
Date Born: 5/10/24
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Color: Dun
Price: 5,000
Here is another big fancy dun colt by KT Jackpot City, and out of Pollys Leagurette, “Freida”. Jackpot is out of Lenas Abbie N Charge and is by City Smarts. He has a phenomenal pedigree that includes Smart Little Lena, Mr. Charge Bar, An Educated Guess, Smart Chic Olena and more. Smart Little Lena and has lifetime earnings of over $89,000.00 a ROM in cutting, and has sired offspring earning over $100,000 in NCHA money. Mr. Charge Bar was a racehorse, but he also was an NCHA money earner, had 33 AQHA performance points, 11 halter points, and an SI of 75. An Educated Guess has 385 reining points, and the highest point earning son of Smart Chic Olena. Jackpot is a pretty moving stallion with tons of ability, he can run barrels, turn a cow and more. Freida is a daughter of Peppys Major Leaguer. Peppys Major Leaguer has his ROM with 83 AQHA points in reining. He was also shown halter and cowhorse. Peppys Major Leaguer has NRHA earnings of $12,824.98 and has qualified for the World show multiple times. He has lifetime earnings over $25,000.00 and was the Open Champion in the Big Sky Derby. Peppys Major Leaguer has a star studded pedigree with performance horses. Freida’s dam, Polliana Peppy earned 1.5 AQHA points in reining with limited showing. Frieda has a pedigree of who’s who with Peppy Badger Chex, Major Bonanza, Cowboy 2 Duster, Quincy Dan, King Fritz, Peppy San Badger, Peppy A Poco, and Doc’s Malbec. This mare combines the foundation with the modern in a great combination. Frieda can really move and has been used on a cattle ranch in Idaho, being shown in 4-H and local shows. We are excited to add Frieda to our herd.

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Read to see what it is!!

Posted on November 22, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was Veterans Day. Happy Veterans Day from our business to you. Today, we remember and honor all who have served or are actively serving. Thank you, veterans! We are lucky to have some very amazing people in our family that have had the distinction of protecting this Country, and we thank them as well as everyone else out there.

On Monday Kade, Kaine and I finished working the calves. Kade rode Jag around. Jag is a full sister to Electra that we call “Pony” because she is a small dynamo. She is sixish and probably 14.2 hands and broad. He is hoping to make her into a heal horse. We moved the pellets into the barn and then went and did chores. We worked on the three colts that are in, Cowy, Whitty and Stoker, all three were awesome. We have not had to use the donkeys in two weeks now. However, we have some big ones coming up that are definitely going to need the donkeys.

On Tuesday Toni loaded out Bee A Bug, and she headed to her new home. She loaded like a champ is what Toni said. Bee a Bug went to a repeat buyer which is always really fun for us. We love it when people love the foals so much they need more than one. Toni worked on the three colts again, then turned Stoker out. She walked out into the weaned foal pen and grabbed Colada out of the middle. Colada has been awesome to deal with and has taken almost everything in stride. Once Colada was caught, she had Dad come out and lead her around as Colada will be loaded out during the week while we are all gone. Colada got put back in since she is headed to her new home soon. Jaxsen was home late due to basketball practice.

Wednesday we woke up to rain. Which is good, I mean, it does not feel good when you are halter breaking, but it is good for the pastures and farm ground around. The Tonis headed to a vacation for a few days Wednesday morning. Kaine got up early to go to school, he was going to an expo he forgot to tell us about. He did not know a lot about where he was going, but he was going with Mr Dansie, I guess that is good enough?? But then he did not end up going anyway.

Thursday Colada was supposed to leave about noon, but Dean showed up at 10:30. Mom decided, even though she had never done anything with Colada, that she would load her. She told Dad and Dean to stay out of her way and loaded Colada like the boss she is. Colada got to her new home without incident. Other than that, it was a typical day, chores, school, work, etc. I stayed with grandma Thursday night. She is still not sleeping.

On Friday Dad and Kaine with to Pomeroy to get the Spokane steers form John Dixon, they are both really nice steers. Ben and I did some cleanup work. Then Kaine, Marlo and I did chores. Anna and Lane got home Friday night. Marlo and I went to Othello and got Checos for dinner.

On Saturday Marlo, Lane, Anna, Kaine, Ben and I worked the cows, we got through them pretty fast considering we were shipping out two bulls and sold some meat as well. There were probably some good stories in the day, but I can’t think of any. The cows all look really good. No one died, so it was all-in-all a good day. Then we did chores.

On Sunday Sam and Erin brought Aubrey and Logan out to get their two clubby heifers, Phoebe and Monica. Then we got Steve’s fat steers in and weighed them and left them in for Steve. Anna and Lane left early since it was supposed to be snowing in Moscow. Marlo, Kaine and I did the horse chores, then Ben and Kaine did the cattle chores, like we had been doing all week. Marlo and I used the new dump trailer to feed a grass straw bale to the weaned pen. We also let Copper out in the big corral where she jumped, bucked, and kicked and showed us that even though she was seriously injured back in August, that she is a survivor. Again, on the Copper front, we could not have done it without a team like the team we have. Our vet team, our farrier team, our home team. Chad and Katie coming up with the plastic shoe for that injured leg has made a world of difference.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! It is time to once again vote for the annual calendar. The 2025 calendar will be full of wonderful pictures voted on by our FB friends. Here is the link for you to vote on your favorites- vote as many times as you would like. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15Yr6CXMFT/ And I forgot to put the pictures below in the album on FB.