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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!

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on April 15, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Are we in love with the 2025 foal crop? Of course we are. Including July. We are about 1/3 done foaling and couldn’t be happier with what we have on the ground. Feel free to come look!

Posted on April 10, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

We rolled in late Sunday from Reno, so Monday was a rest day, then Anna headed to Moscow for school, the boys started back working on their Spokane steers and I started getting Sagebug fence back up. Toni started catching up on her attorney work that had been neglected while we were gone. The men were at work, so where they normally are on a Monday. We checked horses, etc. I got to see the three born while I was gone. I am kind of disappointed there were not more born while I was gone. We got all of our normal stuff done Monday night.

The boys are on spring break. The big two worked on their steers and heifers. Kade then went to Eltopia with Roanie to show him. Kaine and the boys’ friend Cyson went to Soap Lake with the show heifers to get their feet trimmed. They also met Kat’s parents with some stuff she forgot in our trailer, and she took the pickup keys home with her. No new foals on Tuesday.

On Wednesday the boys worked on their steers and heifers again, and then went down and worked on Sagebug’s pen some more. Then Kade had Trap shooting practice so he went to that. Mocha foaled on Tuesday, fancy bay filly by Tank. Dad had pre-named her/it Grande so she came out big, but gentle like a normal Mocha foal. We loved her on sight. We have so many heavy mares it isn’t even funny. We sat out and played with the puppies Wednesday night, Tipsy does a really good job playing with them. She is still a big puppy.

On Thursday Pinky foaled, a nice bay roan filly by Gunner. We received a picture of King with his hair all braided to one side. He looks happy, mom is happy she got to see King. She still isn’t happy we sold him, but it did allow us to buy MC. We needed to bring in a stud that wasn’t related to anything. We got our mares all situated to head up to Allie’s for Friday. The weather has been ok for Spring. The boys have really had to put in the work to get their steers ready. For some reason this year a bunch of the Angus shows are scheduled in the spring before school is out. So instead of having time to get the Spokane steers ready, it has been a bit hectic.

Friday Dad, Skip and Toni took Cammie, Reba and Gina to Allie’s to get AIed. Jitter Bug foaled, a big grullo colt by MC, Anna and the boys went out and got her. The colt was big enough there were some minor issues. Luckily BB was out with Jitter Bug so she got the colt licked off, but she is ready to have her own foal so Jitter Bug got to get moved into the dog pen at mom’s. Jitter loved the colt once she realized it was hers. For everyone that doesn’t remember, last year Jitter Bug raised Peanut’s filly, Hurricane, and Peanut raised Jitter’s colt Alme. Toni needed some trotting videos of Wild, so her, mom and Kade got videos and pics when Toni got back. Marlo was out to do chores and pet the foals on Friday. I guess she hadn’t petted any of the foals yet this year so we remedied that on Friday. Big E loves to be petted and scratched.

Mom had a surprise Saturday, May the donkey foaled, we have had her for 11 months and were not told she was in with the jack before we got her. I literally had said to Toni the day before that May looks pregnant, so Toni looked up how long we had had her to see if she could be. He is a cute jack named July. June is upset that she is not the apple of May’s eye anymore. BB also had a nice buckskin filly on Saturday by MC. Ben got the tree shear hooked back up to the skisteer and started shearing trees. Toni and Anna both used it as well. Kaine, Kade and Jaxsen worked on their steers. Anna worked on her cow calf pair and Cookie’s sister to go to Ellensburg. We finished Sagebug’s pen and locked the mares back on this side of the lake. They are not thrilled. We moved Peanut down there as well. We put Sally and CanCan in with Cappy. Mocha in with Tank. Pinky is locked in a pen to go and get AIed. We brought all of the mares into Circle 5, only 25 left down there to foal. It will be easier to check them in a much smaller pen.

Nelli had a fancy blaze fancy buckskin on Sunday by MC. Kaine and Kade took the two Hereford bulls to Connell to get their horns turned. Uncle Joe was kind enough to show the boys how he cuts them so that the horns go the right direction. They helped him with 20 of his bulls, so the boys should be able to do it the next time we have some big horned bulls that need trimmed up. We turned Sagebug out with his mares. We had people out looking at bulls. Barb and Phina came out and looked at foals and yearlings. Abs and Mr Pickles, another donkey, came on Sunday from Tina’s house. We also started supplementing July the baby Jack. He just wasn’t looking good. Lots of fence built over the weekend and lots more to build/fix. We are ready to get studs out of the corral and out on grass.

Are we in love with the 2025 foal crop? Of course we are. Including July. We are about 1/3 done foaling and couldn’t be happier with what we have on the ground. Feel free to come look!

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on April 8, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Another fun week in the books and the first part of April.

Posted on April 4, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

We had a few late nights early on in the week, or really the whole week probably. Ben, Kaine and Kade continued to pack the trailer and get everything crammed in the nose. Including building a fan rack for the 4 fans. McCall came over Monday after work and helped Kade finish clipping his fall heifer. No new foals, Monday or Tuesday. Mom went out and helped us check the mares on Monday. Toni was preparing for a big hearing on Tuesday. Both nights we did normal chores, Kade rode Roanie, and we just got ready for our big trip. Roanie is for sale, and if you want more info go to our sale page.

The last of the trailer got packed to go to Reno on Tuesday. Kat came down and stayed the night so we could leave early from our house. Kaine got himself on the Ag Sales team so he was studying for that on Tuesday. His other option was go by himself with me to Angus Regionals in Madras, since it is finals week for Anna at school, and Kade and Jaxsen were already going to FFA State. I guess he did not want to have a road trip with me by himself…

I took the three big kids and left Toni, Mom, Dad, Ben and Kicker, and Jaxsen to do all the chores, foaling out mares and turning them out with studs. We were Reno bound and trucking with Kat and Kady Vejraska. Jaxsen had his last student led parent teacher conference in Jr. High. His grades are ok, he could do better, but has done worse. So I guess that is a win. Wednesday evening Emma came out and grabbed Boone to hypothetically use her for Wrangler girls. Last year she borrowed Kevin, so she is switching it up for this year. Boone loaded great and off she went for the rodeo season. Then Toni and Jaxsen started chores. They were way behind and couldn’t find all of the mares.

Thursday was a quiet day in Reno. The cattle were doing great and Kade did livestock judging. At home it was rainy and gross but that didn’t stop Toni from shipping out Rad and Gold Buckle to their new home. They did really well loading into a new trailer. Kendra came and picked up the foals for their owners and took them to Colville. Our farming operation started going full tilt on Tuesday, we sent out rebreed contracts for open AI mares, and had a super busy day. Once again Toni could not find 14 of the mares, which started to make her nervous. She called Ben and he was able to find them. Sagebug had swam the lake, which he has never done in all the years we have ran him with mares on the far side. Then he proceeded to gather up 14 head of mares and try to make them swim back to his side of the lake. None of the mares would go and he had them bunched up on a little peninsula that is hard to get to and hard to find. You can drive out close to it, but it does require some walking and dodging of big sagebrush, mud holes, rocks, etc.

Friday was a decent day. Juan came over and picked up Buzzy the Bug. We are excited for Juan to have him. Juan also wants a mule, just like Kade does so Toni and Juan started talking mules. Then Jeana, Scott, and Jaycee came and brought their mare out to breed to MC. We called the mare Bay Mare, thinking that was her name the entire time we had her when we bred her to Gunner, but her name is Venus. She has a really neat Gunner colt so now they are going to breed her to MC to see what they get. Jaycee also went ahead and jumped on Roanie to see if he might work for her little cousins. He isn’t a hard horse to ride, but is really big so we don’t think he is a good fit for little kids. For chores Toni and Marlo went out to try to remedy the Sagebug situation. They found mares scattered all over. Lura had just foaled, so fresh the foal wasn’t up yet. They drove all over and couldn’t find Sagebug, but did find all the mares he had originally taken and they couldn’t find nine other mares. They finally found Sagebug with the nine missing mares by the gate back into Sagebug’s pasture where he was driving to drive these mares. Again, he had them bunched into a small area but the gate and fence stopped him from taking them where he wanted the mares to go. Toni and Marlo tried to get the herd up to my house, but Sagebug wouldn’t let the mares go that direction and kept trying to drive them across the land bridge where he wanted them to go. Ben came to help and they all finally decided to leave the horses in Circle 3 for the night. When Marlo and Toni got back to Mom and Dad’s Lightening Bug was just foaling and they were able to get right out to the new filly. Mom was disappointed it was a dunskin/buckskin, but she is a big beauty so whatever. Because the twins turned the big 25 on Friday, they got to name both of the new fillies. I don’t think we have had a year go by when they didn’t get a foal on their birthday or 2! In Reno the kid had showmanship. The heifers and kids all did great.

Saturday first thing Dad told Toni the colts were out. She got down to the house and the colts had knocked down a pole and Fire was out. She got the pole up and Fire in. Dad and Skip went in to the baseball game. Then Mom called that a stud was out. The gate to Cappy’s pen was not chained correctly so they were out. Mom and Toni put them back in. Cappy was acting like the young stud that he is but went back in fine. Then Toni and Jaxsen went out and walked up and caught Sagebug, long trotting him back to my house so we can build a fence and put him in a much smaller pasture. He really screwed himself with his behavior. I would say though that he was awesome to catch and take out of the mares, so that took way less time than scheduled. In Reno we had breeding classes. Kade showed Cookie and Blossom, Anna had Hazel and Kaine had Baby Jewel. Kady had Maddy and Laxy. All the kids and heifers did great. Kade was 4th in this class with Blossom.

Sunday Kendel called that we had a new foal in Circle 5 so Toni went down and Peanut had a Cappy colt. I texted that I thought Nutjob, yet I want to call him that, was beautiful. Toni ignored me. He is a big pretty colt. Everything on the desert was good for once and that was our only foal on Sunday. Toni did take my horse for a spin with her new halter our friend Suzanne sent. It is Toni’s color- leopard print. We got the cattle loaded and headed home from Reno after a great week. We needed to take Kady to the airport, so I thought we were dropping the trailer and then hooking it back up. Nope, Kat rolled through the airport with the Wilson and we headed home from there.

Another fun week in the books and the first part of April. Always exciting to see the foals on the ground and start breeding mares back. Soon we will be AIing mares on top of everything else. Spring is a hectic fun time. If anyone is looking for a Shadoodle Anna has Shadoodle puppies. Idaho Shagg x Mini Poodle.