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We had a hot week. The temperature, number of activities, constantly on the run.
On Monday one of the extra Spokane steers was harvested, we just have one left of the Spokane steers to harvest. Monday night was Anna’s senior project presentation. Mom was mad it was a pass/fail deal and not graded, or you could get extra pts. Anna did a showmanship clinic last summer that was a huge success. She is doing it again this summer with some other kids and they got a grant this year to help pay for it. Last year she got donations. The presentations were great. Toni and the boys finished chores, and the boys finished clipping their heifers and Jaxsen dyed his steer. Then Kade and Kaine went and picked up Kaine’s pickup since the transmission was finally fixed. Toni had 2 big hearings, one in Ritzville the other at her office, so she was busy most of the day. Toni stayed with grandma on Monday night.
On Tuesday dad and Toni took Annie, Benelli and Gina up to Allies for checks. Annie is confirmed in foal to a Shiner Named Sioux and Gina is confirmed in foal to Brother Jackson, yea!! Benelli is not in foal, so stayed up there. Both foals did great loading and hauling. It was a fast trip because we had a mare coming in at 1 to breed to MC so Dad and Toni hustled. The mare still beat them home, but it was fine. The owner is a long time family friend so him and mom went and looked at horses. Ben stayed home from work on Tuesday cooking for the FFA banquet, he did a great job. Kade was the star greenhand, we are very proud of him. He was also appointed at the sentinel. Kaine did not run for anything and him and Jaxsen said they did their job by having their friends vote for Kade….. All kids received awards and did a great job. We absolutely think the Connell FFA program is one of the best in the state. Anna’s video for being the District champion was shown during the dinner.
Minnie had a beautiful filly on Wednesday, the amount of white she has and her blue eyes may have been a little surprising. We were expecting some white, but not paint quantities of white. Also on Wednesday Kade and Kaine came home at lunch time, as did I, and we headed to Ellensburg for the Angus Regional show. Anna had a Sr assembly after school, so her and Toni came after school. Mom and Dad ran to the cities to get Anna some extra feed that she needed for the trip. The boys had I had everything set up and ready to go when they got there, and we were eating the lemon sugar cookies mom had made. They were really good. Toni and Anna brought most of the cattle. We went to the pasta place for dinner, we normally go with the Tracis and Leslies, but the last time we were in Ellensburg there was a long wait, so we did not want to worry about breaking tradition. We decided to go on Wednesday and chance going twice. It was a great dinner. We had an air bnb in E-burg that was 2 stories so lots of room for all. Aram, one of our extra kids, came with his heifer to the show on Wed as well so he stayed with us Wed night since Jax didn’t end up coming on Wed. We did bring Jax a steer for the jackpot.
On Thursday morning Kade and Anna did the fitting contest with some new friends and placed second. The judge, Justin Click, had some great pointers for the kids. They had no fit showmanship in the afternoon. All of the kids showed great. The kids also stole Mason, a super cute 10-year-old boy, he helped them all day instead of his sister Morgan. Kade and Kaine also helped Aram clip Gogo before the show. The kids then had ice breakers with the green coats and then picnic in the park. Lendy and Eddie foaled on Thursday. Both by Sagebug. Ben said the colt was a buckskin but we could tell in the pictures that the colt is a grulla. The filly looks pali. Long, but productive day Thursday. We got to see lots of friends and help our friend Kat celebrate her bday with a signature beverage and lots of laughs.
On Friday the show started at 9. 006 and her calf Hall were first, champion cow and calf. Next was bred and owned heifers, Kaine’s heifer was Grand Champion in the division and Kade was reserve. Hall came back to show as a bull, with the big boys. He was Reserve champion in his division. Then the owned heifers, REM showed great for her first show. Devo showed like crap. You would have thought it was her first show and that she had not won showmanship in Spokane. Bottom line the kids all did a great job. Aram got to get his heifer out again, so that is great practice for him. That afternoon the kids clipped Jaxsen’s steer, since he was planning on bringing his Angus steer, but he did not have him caught, so Toni and Ben decided he was bringing Gunz, who was not clipped. Jaxsen was not happy with them. Leslie and the three medium kids came up Friday night. We had their stalls ready when they got there. We tried to go out to the pasta place again, with Leslie, Kat and Kady, but there an hr wait, so we went to the Red Pickle. Kat told us it was only .3 miles and we should walk. Maybe as a crow flies, it was a walk and we aren’t city people that walk all over.
Saturday was the Ace in the Hole jackpot. Everyone showed great, Kaine had RJ and Johnny, Kade had REM and Queen, Anna had Devo and Crue and Jaxsen had Gunz. Kade made it to the champion round with Queenie, his bred and owned. Anna and Kaine made it to the championship round in showmanship. Jaxsen showed really well. After the show we headed home. We had some friends come in to watch the kids, as well as Mom, Dad, and Kicker came to watch. It was a long day so most people left before the show ended. When Mom and Dad got home they texted to let us know that Butterscotch had a cute little filly by King.
Sunday was an early start. We had a mare, named Blueberry, show up about 7 so she could be bred to Dude. Blueberry is a big, grulla roan mare. She is owned by some friends of ours. She was involved in a trailering incident last year so has trailer issues now so we are going to get her bred and see what happens. She is a Dynamic in Blue daughter so should produce some big pretty foals. After we got Blueberry settled, we started working the cows, we did not finish until Monday. Sunday, we got them all in and sorted the heifers from the bulls, worked all the calves and started working the cows, we got about half way done with the cows. Lots of saddle time but it was good for the people and horses. Toni left early because we had another mare come in to breed. I guess it is breeding season. She stayed down to give West Nile and catch the 2 and 3 year olds to get them worked. Mom and dad went to St John to put flowers on the graves as they do every year on Memorial Day weekend. They also got to see Uncle Skip. Mom has family in some of the adjacent towns to St. John and Grandpa has a headstone in Connell so it was a full day by the time they got home. I went and stayed with Grandma on Sunday night.
We had a hot week. The temperature, number of activities, constantly on the run. But the reality is that there is nothing better than being covered in sweat, dust, and the smell of cows. Working cows is probably one of the most frustrating and rewarding things a person can do. Working cows really works a person’s patience, both with the cows and the rest of the people.
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Our kids are pretty lucky to get to grow up the way we did with their grandparents right there giving advice from the other side of the fence.
What a Monday, at least the kids were home from school to help due to semester ending. I went to a meeting in Othello, and get a call from Toni and then a text to call her ASAP, I texted her back I was in a meeting. Kade took Stormy out on a snowy ride, and MC jumped the fence because he wanted to go too. He broke the wood fence in his attempt to go over it, because he is not bred to jump. Kade took Stormy around the corner and grabbed his rope off of the saddle. Toni and her client went out to assist, and someone called Anna and Kaine to come and help. MC was having fun so was not letting anyone catch him. They finally got him semi corned and roped, and it took Kade and Kaine to get him back to the round pen, since he was having a great time. So Toni and the kids took MC down to Tank’s pen and Tank up to her house to the pasture. MC is now in the stallion station area, so does not get to run around in the grass. During all of this, or maybe before, Sheena texted that Bellini was ready to come home. So Toni ran in and got her, and she was a pill to load with her one good eye and squished Toni. A quick reminder on Bellini, she lacerated her eyeball, but instead of taking the eyeball out, because we didn’t want that, Sheena did a grant onto the eyeball which we hope will save the eye and give Bellini some sight out of it. Kade and Jax fixed the fence while Toni ran to the vet. The steer guy showed up and got three steers. Anna and Toni went down and fed the mares in circle 5 since Ben got to start working 9 hr days on Monday. That night 140 and 957 calved. 957 calved in the snow, but luckily Ben was there right as it was born, and he grabbed the calf and ran to the straw with it, he ran to the straw because 957 is pretty watchy.
On Tuesday Billy from TLC in Othello came to harvest a custom beef. Toni talked to him while she was checking. She checked on the two calves from the night before, both are good. Dad went to Colville with a bull for Jeff Dawson, a repeat buyer and friend. It was a long and foggy trip. Tank was super happy to be at Toni’s house in a bigger pen. MC is not happy at all and won’t let Kade pet him. We got our check for King from Billings, which was really fast. The buyers are picking him up from Jordan Pace at the end of the week. They also would like to stand him. So if anyone around Burns wants to breed to him, that is where he will be. We can get you their contact info if you want it. Toni already wants to spend the King money on a new cow and is trying to get mom to agree. Haha. It is a Hereford cow so Mom and Dad will probably agree with her.
Wednesday was my birthday, and at the office you go and get your own birthday treat for the office, I guess that is so if people do not want to celebrate they don’t have to? That started before I worked here. I stopped by Daily Donuts in Pasco on my way to work. It was a good day, had Bone Fish for dinner, Daisy calved, Toni is calling Daisy’s calf Calf Kellie, I am not calling her that and Daisy is Annas. Mom stayed at Grandmas on Wednesday, so she could not make a dessert for my birthday so we decided to do that Thursday because grandma comes first. We also got some super cool Thank You cards that we had custom made for the kids to take to fairs. And Dad and Ben’s Christmas presents came, custom buckles from Sheridan Buckle for our Heritage Breeder award. The buckles are awesome. We now have buckles from Rowdy Rose and Sheridan Buckle. Both companies are exceptional if you need a buckle, saddle, custom jewelry, etc.
Thursday Toni had to take Jaxsen to the orthodontist, she gets to have both kids in braces at the same time. They were gone most of the day. Toni also bought a couch she is recovering, so they had to get that picked up, take it to the upholstery place, get groceries for my bday dinner, etc. Mom made Coconut rum pie on Thursday, it was really good. Toni stayed with grandma on Thursday so she dined and dashed. One of Kade’s show heifers, that Toni refers to as Grumpy, calved at my 10 o’clock check.
On Friday I got to check since I did not have work. I took some pics of the B2004 calves for Joe, since I was staying with grandma that night. Then mom and I went in for our hair cut and mine dyed. Traci came and picked up mom to go stay with grandma. I went home and worked after and then stayed with grandma that night. Marlo came and helped with chores and then went and helped Anna with cow chores. Toni went to a birthday party for a three year old small child that she claims. The parents let her claim her. Jaxsen went with her because he is friends with the older brother. Toni found another cow to buy on Friday and I had to tell her no. The cow has a bull calf at side, but it is a simangus.
Saturday morning it was raining and left everything a more muddy mess then it already was. Feeding is now a three person job, one person on the tractor pulling the pickup. We had someone out looking at yearlings on Saturday in the rain. All the yearlings did great, well behaved, came in easy, etc. They all acted like really well mannered coming yearlings so that was good, but you wonder what they are up to. One of the char heifers calved on Saturday, she had a cute bull. I guess she was waiting for Lane to be there (since he raises chars). We had the crew, so decided to put out straw at mom and dads. Kaine, with his fun teenager cool pick-up, got stuck in the mud. So to get him out, Ben came down with the tractor, and since we had the tractor, Kade and Kaine brought another pu with straw. Toni and I dove big Red with a full load of straw out in the pasture. It was so soft we got stuck continually and Ben would have to push us with the tractor, however, we got everyone bedded down and good dry stuff out to every pen. Uncle Skip came down on Saturday and we had my birthday party. Mom made millionaire pie, banana cream pie and apple pie. Toni made lasagna, Texas toast and salad, and 2 hors d’oeurves . We had a great dinner. Jax had a new game, kids against maturity, so we played a quick round of that before everyone took off.
Sunday we continued ranching in the mud. Feeding, tagging calves, putting out hay, etc. Kade took Electra (horse not cow) out for a ride and took Stormy along too. As every ranch teenager does, Kade has decided he wants to try to flip a horse this spring/summer. We did the same at his age. It gives a kid a way to make a little money, get more experience breaking horses, and something fun and challenging. We don’t have much in the older category so he is going to start the pretty little buckskin coming 2 year old Josslyn. He is also getting a started mare from Jeannie Riley, a cool black grade mare. We told Kaine he can also pick something out as well. All the kids can if they want. Kaine is pondering it. Anna likes to break horses she is going to keep, so that doesn’t work for her, but that is ok. Jaxsen likes to ride the couch, so he is not at a point in his life to really want to work on young horses yet, if ever. I had gotten some racks to hang halters up, so the boys helped us get those hung on the side of the saddle shed and we stared organizing halters. We have a bunch. A bunch of junky ones and some good ones too. It will be nice to have everything organized.
No matter which kid decides to work on the livestock, they will have plenty of supervision. Dad always had great words of wisdom when we were growing up and staring a new horse. Even now he likes to randomly throw out some saying that is so true that you can’t help but smile. Things like, “nothing replaces wet saddle blankets.” “Time to take a deep seat and a long rein.” “We didn’t do it that way in my day.” Our kids are pretty lucky to get to grow up the way we did with their grandparents right there giving advice from the other side of the fence.
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Last Week in Pictures
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Happiness is really a funny thing.
Monday was rainy, but fairly warm for January, we hear it is supposed to be cold by the end of the week. Toni worked on Dandy and Spark and they were little mud balls. Dandy is a dandy guy to work on, he is a typical Sagebug acting already halter brokeish. PVF mailed Kade a sweatshirt and a hat so he can wear some PVF swag at cattle shows. We thought that was pretty nice of them. Kade likes the heifer he got from them and is excited to show her in 2024. On Monday Toni and Ben decided to get the cows in on Tuesday and sort out the heavies and leave them by the house due to the weather that is planned to come in. We have the real heavies already in, but we want anything that could possibly calve in the next 2 weeks in to the house.
Tuesday was super windy, but on Tuesday afternoon Ben and Toni got all the cows in and sorted them. The cows want hay since they feel the cold coming and want some additional energy, so they were easy to get in. They sorted off 19 to keep in, and we had 3 in already, so 22 head in the heavy pen. We also try to only keep cows that have the right disposition, so even if all of the cows aren’t halter broke, they also aren’t crazy. The sorting went well and all the cows wanted to stay in because of the weather so tried their best to look heavy. We also decided that we needed to promote King with new pictures and video, with Wednesday being the only day that might work due to weather. Weather seems to be the key factor in all decisions this week.
Wednesday morning was freezing fog, Toni was headed to Prosser to get some pics of King, so she left about an hr later to wait for some of the fog to burn off. In the Prosser area they had a skiff of snow, so not sliding controlled stops for King, just sliding snow stops. Toni checked the cows before she left, luckily the heavy cows were in, because the ones in the corn field were hard to see in the fog. Toni said King did awesome, Jordan jumped on with no warm up and they took off. They got lots of great pictures. Kaine told us Wednesday that him and his friends were presenting their welding project to the school board. None of us parents knew what was going on. Kaine was the one old enough to drive so Jade said Max said Kaine is picking him up and they were doing something at the school, Randi said her Maxx said the same thing. Jara said they got their poop in a group when they got there and did a great job. I guess that is the G version of their shit together?
On Thursday D187 calved in the heavy pen, is was not deadly cold yet so was doing ok. When Toni checked everyone was good. I worked on the King pics Wednesday and Thursday nights to get them up. It is the first of the year so Toni has had lots of client meetings. Even with the frozen ground, Toni continued to work on Dandy and Spark every night. Dandy is just a buddy. Loves to be scratched, loves attention. Spark has more fire, but super smart, great moving colt. Both colts are exactly what we have expected them to be. They are really done being halter broke but we decided to leave them in for the bad weather because they are the youngest in the weaned pen to make sure they are getting enough feed, room on the straw bale, staying warm.
Thursday night/Friday morning is when the cold started. Nothing calved during the night but 719 had calved when Toni got there and Dark Knight was acting like she was starting. Toni got 719 calf in the house, she used the Colorado, and Leo jumped in, the wind blew the door shut and Leo locked the door. So she went and got the spare pile of keys and went through them until she found the one. Leo got locked in Anna’s room and Dark Knight got locked in the barn. The 719 calf got put in the laundry room to try to thaw to the point she could be given colostrum. Chad came and trimmed MC’s feet. Chad is usually fine to keep going but both Toni and Chad decided it was plenty cold and one horse was enough. Then Toni went back to check again and fed 719’s calf colostrum, which she was excited to get. I got groceries and stayed with grandma on Friday night. Toni called me as the day went on with updates. She is not a fan of Leo right now.
The cold continued on Saturday. Tank got out and Kade got him in on his way to trap shooting. We switched him and Cappy so he is now locked in the corral and Cappy is on the hill. Jaxsen worked hard breaking waters at night and mom broke them in the morning when she walked her dog. Dad did the ones at the house. We worked on Spark and Dandy, who are as far as most of the foals, but since they are so late we have left them in to get more feed. We let the horses that are out for the winter in with the yearling heifers, since the running water, so the lake is open, is in the heifer pen and the horses ponds were all frozen. Water is a very limiting factor on where livestock can winter. In this case all of our water was frozen except in one spot so now the livestock is intermixed. We had our November-January birthday party Saturday night, but did not say long we needed to go home and check. It was still good to get out and see the family for a bit. We were missing quite a bit of the family, but with the weather, everyone that could come, did. Leslie already had like 6 calves in the shop to get warm and through the night had even more. Luckily we didn’t have any calves on Saturday night but we got up and checked all night. I am glad my kids are old enough to help.
Sunday was a little warmer with no breeze and a beautiful sun, we had a few calves during the day, the day calves did not have to go to the barn since it was sunny. 9422 (Anna’s show heifer from 2019 “Tilly”) had hers right when the sun went down, so he started to get cold so we moved him in. 919T was calving then so she also went into the barn. We worked on Dandy and Spark, Kaine and Kade put grass straw out. On the way down to mom’s they bounced one bale off the trailer, but it landed over at the edge of the road so we decided to get it on Monday. We helped Jaxsen with water. Water was really frozen everywhere so it took all hands-on deck. At my 10 o’clock check, I switched Kaine since I had to work on Monday and they did not have school, 055 had just calved, so I got her and her calf in the barn, 919T had calved. 051 was calving but she was further along then moving her at that point, so I woke Ben up (or actually Andee the dog woke him up since I was taking too long outside and she was ready to go in) so he got up with Kaine at midnight. They moved 051 and her new calf into the barn and gave 919T and 055 calves colostrum since they did not look like they had nursed. Anna’s bottle calf and gotten in with 055 since she was in his pen and he was laying in his corner. It was long night.
Happiness is really a funny thing. Probably city people would think we had a bad week and spirits would be low here. In fact that isn’t the case. The weather wasn’t great, but it could have been worse and due to our efforts we kept all of our calves alive. Nothing makes a rancher happier than seeing those calves bucking and kicking across the snow.
Please remember to help us spread the word that King sells at Billings online sale Jan 16-18. The sale ends THURSDAY the 18th. We really really appreciate all the help from our friends to spread the word. Selling a stud can be pretty difficult. There is a much smaller buying pool, so the more people that know about him and can help spread the word, the better. We are excited for this new opportunity to sell at Billings without having to go to Billings. This may be a great avenue for us to sell in the future. We are excited to see how it goes. King’s link:
https://bid.northernlivestockvideo.com/KT-King-Of-Blue_i51492006
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Last Week in Pictures
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Last Week in Pictures
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Another busy week here, the NILE show, homecoming, weaning and halter breaking, trying to keep up with chores and feeding, shipping foals, what is next?
Bright and early Monday morning Anna, Ben and McCall headed to Billings Montana for the Nile Cattle Show. They got there and got checked in. Toni had court. Dad and Mom headed to Addy to get Dad’s new side by side, or new to him but used, from Gary and Ruth. Monday was the start of homecoming week at school and Kade participated in the homecoming events at the assembly. Toni and I hooked the three foals to the three donkeys Monday night, Basil got Capone, Rosie got Bailey and Tulip for Mercades. These are three pretty big foals. Capone is the size of a yearling already and the other 2 aren’t small. We are thankful for donkeys. Very thankful. Toni picked Kade up from school to do horse chores and then ran him back in for drivers ed. Kicker was fixing circles so Kaine ran up to do cow chores after he got home from practice.
On Tuesday we turned the circle off and dad drove his new side by side up to the pond and out into the circle. He had fun. At the Nile Anna showed Mini Herefords, the mini-Hereford bull she showed won his division and the heifer got 3rd in her class. She had fun. I saw on Facebook that Kade participated in the homecoming events again. Good job buddy and having good school spirit. Jaxsen had a game, they beat Othello, Jaxsen played great. Mercades did not need to get tied to the donkey on Tuesday, I led her all over one handed while we moved the colts around. Capone was tied to Basil again and Bailey to Rosie. Kade drove after school then had drivers ed. Kaine went up to help with cow chores after he got done with horse chores. Kaine forgot to let the kittens out on Tuesday and they were little devils when we got home.
On Wednesday Mom and Toni went to see grandma, she has moved over to the rehab. Morgan and Tel came to the Nile to watch Anna show Char and hang out with Ben, Anna and McCall. Tel preferred Ben but Morgan would not let him keep him. I did get a text congrats on the grandbaby, how old do you people think I am?? Anna had fun showing the char heifer on Wednesday. I think they were third in their class in the Jr Show, I think third in showmanship and middle of the class in open. They did great, she showed really well and looked really good. Kade’s PVF heifer came on Wednesday over to Connell, Joe and Kade evaluated her at great extent. Toni was given some mixed soft Australian licorice when she took Kade to get his heifer, so she was happy. Kade didn’t do the horse chores since he was picking up his heifer and then had drivers ed, so Kaine did horse chores and then went to help with cow chores. Jaxsen is still just doing water. We tied Bailey to Basil and Capone to Rosie on Wednesday and led Mercades. We then let Basil and Tulip out with the other foals and just left Rosie in for Thursday pulling. Rosie is by far the toughest of the lot, hardest to catch, but the toughest.
Great day at the Nile on Thursday. Anna showed a Gelbvieh heifer from Ledgerwood Gelbvieh, they won their class in the Jr Division and made it back. They were Grand Champion Sr Showman in showmanship. In the open division she was second in her class. Anna also got to show another heifer for Ledgerwood Gelbvieh and a bull, the bull was the Reserve Grand Champion overall bull. In the Angus division Anna’s bred and owned heifer won her division and her bull won his class. In showmanship Kale made it back to the championship round and Anna did really well. I went and had lunch with grandma, I shared a grilled cheese sandwich with her and she had soup. Thursday night Toni and I worked on the foals. Kade did not have drivers ed so he did most of the chores. The foals are really starting to make progress. Tulip wanted to be done. She is kind of turning into a quitter.
Friday Anna and McCall showed at the Nile and Kale Cordill showed his Nile Merit heifer. McCall had Queenie and Baby Cow and Anna showed Blondie and her bull. Queenie got 2nd in her class and Blondie was in the same class and 3rd. Baby Cow was 5th in a deep class. Kale and Berta were 3rd in their class. The bull won his division and got to come back to the championship round. Kale and Berta were 4th Overall in the Nile Merit Program and Reserve Champion in Showmanship. Marlo came and her and Kade did chores. I worked on the foals, Toni had court on Friday, but she got there as we were finishing up and took some pics of the foals. Mom, Marlo, Kade, Jaxsen and I met Dianne in at Kaine’s football game. Kade got to record the film for the team. It was Sr night and we got to see a lot of fiends be honored in Sr night. It was a great game and Connell won.
Happy birthday Jaxsen. On Saturday Kade went hunting and Kaine went with his friends to Tri Cities to play golf before homecoming. Toni and I loaded out Mercades on Saturday, she went home with Juan. Jaxsen wanted to invite friends over for his birthday, so Toni went around and gathered them up. Then Robby and Ed came with daughter Cheynne to get a clubby steer. Then I fixed fence with the dogs, cleaned some stuff up, fed the cows a few old 2 string bales that were left over from shows and hanging around the show shed. Kade got home and did chores early so I could take him down to meet the boys for homecoming. Toni and I took pics of Capone and then finished up chores, which included getting Blaze and Dukey in and haltered. We had to chase the pen around a bit, but we got them. Both were pretty easy to halter. Bailey gets another week. I then ran to Kennewick with Kade and took homecoming pics and dropped him off with the other kids and came home. The boys had a good time at Homecoming. Ben, McCall and Mckenna went to Morgans in Wyoming to pick up the steers at Morgans house. They look really good, we are really happy with them. Then they went to the Angus sale to bid on some heifers but did not get any. Which the trailer was pretty full so maybe for the best, even though we really liked some of Zane Barragree’s heifers in the sale and some of Lacey and Chads from 3C (they donated Anna’s Nile Merit Heifer from last year). McKena flew out of Billings that night home to Kansas. Toni took Jax’s friends home. A few wanted to stay the night but she said she couldn’t deal with it. Our friend Robby said that she read somewhere that raising boys is like raising a pack of squirrels. That seems accurate. 2 boys is ok, more than 2 and you wonder what type of hell life has become.
On Sunday McCall, Ben and Anna headed home with the trailer load, and one heifer of Kelly Cordills that they dropped off. Toni, Kaine and Kade went to Pomeroy to pick up the Spokane steers from Dixons. Both boys took a turn driving with the trailer, they really can’t get too much experience driving with a trailer before they are turned lose on society. Once in Pomeroy, they spent some time with John and Jerry looking through the weaned calves. John Dixon does have some calves left that would work for a fall show if anyone is looking. I worked around the place with the dogs. Everyone kind of got home around the same time. We had to move pens around a bit to get pens for all of the steers and critters we have accumulated. Toni and I worked on group 4, Bailey, Blaze and Duke. All three donkeys had to come back in for a bit. We also put out big bales in the White tractor. I guess that happened this week too, we have sold the White tractor so putting out bales Sunday may have been its last job for KT Ranch. We also got Cog caught, practiced loading him, and put him in a pen at the house for him to leave on Monday to his new home. I weaned Mouse when she came in for grain, so another foal weaned.
We are down to four long yearling colts and one filly. We think they are all pretty good ones and each has a unique trait that sets them apart. The Judge is a big gray colt out of John Hallowell’s PD stud- so Apache Blue Boy on the bottom and Dash for Cash on the top. This colt is made for performance. He is big, strong, smart, and pretty. King Two is a stout shorter colt, clearly made for breakaway, calf roping, healing. He is more reactive, but again, really smart. He is more of a project type, but is going to make a fantastic horse. King Three is a true-blue roan that carries a crème gene. He is EE, so can’t have a red foal. Again, super smart colt. Very fancy, has the right look. Joker is a joy to be around, has the pedigree, and ability. We had originally thought Joker would be our next stallion, but we are going to go a different route. Joker has that potential, or would make a great gelding. Joss is a buckskin filly. She was a later born filly, but is stout, smart, curious, and just a fun filly. She isn’t going to be huge, should mature 14.2 with lots of natural grace. These are all really great foals that we are ready to move before winter.
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