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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on May 27, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Last Week in Pictures: LOTS of pictures this week.

Posted on May 20, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on February 25, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on February 12, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Overall it was a pretty nice week for December moving into January.

Posted on January 16, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

The three boys were back to school Monday, we had Anna one more full day to check and do ranch stuff. Teresa came and AIed the 4 fall heifers on Monday, so Ben got off work early to help. The compressor went out in the big outdoor freezer, so we got a quote on that, not great. Toni was still sick so Kade and Jaxsen were on their own for chores. We just have the two fillies in, Peeps and Gold Bug. Kade didn’t really work on them, just went in and talked to them as he had plenty to do. Kaine did cow chores.

Dad went to Palouse on Tuesday to get pellets. We were out both for the show heifers and the horses. It rained, snowed and was sunny at different parts on his trip. It did the same to me on my way to work headed South, however, no sun since it was still dark. Keegan came home with Kade Tuesday night to help him with chores. The men unloaded the pellets when they got home. Anna headed back to U of I on Tuesday, she passed dad on the road at around Hooper.

Toni was supposed to start checking cows started Wednesday since Anna went back to college, but Toni was sick all week. I think we should have Anna do online college so she is home. Kaine checked when he got home, since it is dark when Ben gets home. But lets face it, how well do we think Kaine was checking, he was just looking for problems.

Thursday was the same as Wednesday, Toni was sick, Kade did her chores, Kaine checked for her, so things were not done to her standard. But they were done. Toni came down with Kade for a bit and supervised to start building her strength back up, since being sick just takes it out of you. I stayed with grandma Thursday night, and she was not a great sleeper.

On Friday Kaine went snowmobiling so help was even lighter. Ben ran Leo into Sheena to be a neutered dog, he checked cows before he went. I got home from grandmas, showered, then went in to get my hair done. Ben went out to build hot fence around one of the duck ponds. It was not holding water so they wanted the corn knocked down so they could work on it. The cows were happy to help them knock the corn down. Marlo came to help do chores. I was finally able to work on the 2 fillies. Peeps did really well and Gold Bug was a bit reactive but is small enough it doesn’t really matter. The good news is she likes to be scratched so other than being a baby, she will be fine. Peeps on the other hand is big, so luckily she is pretty slow motion and smart.

On Saturday we had people out to look at horses, and pick up horses. Kade help Ben get yearling weights on the heifers after Kade got home from trap and tied up his and Kaine’s steers. Ghost and Jetter went to their new home in Ellensburg. Jetter loves it because she is out of the mud, she is in the snow, but out of the mud. Kade rode Benelli out and checked Jon’s cows. Toni was on the mend and we worked on Gold Bug and Peeps, who have been in all week but have not been worked on much. Saturday was their second day.

On Sunday Kade came down and tied up his Nile heifer, Carla. We checked cows and then Kade, Ben and I got yearling weights on the bulls. Dan and Rusanne came out and looked at bulls. We fixed some fence that the heifers knocked down when Kade and Ben turned them out in the corn field. We moved Opal into a pen on her own, and she is now on Regumate and SMZ tablets. Kade rode Benelli, and a cold came through while he was out riding, and he was still cold when we did chores. Kaine got home and cleaned out in front of the feed bunk for the bulls. And let the steers and heifer go.

Overall it was a pretty nice week for December moving into January. We are slowly getting the cows calved out. The next step is getting them bred back so we are looking at bulls, getting semen bought, and picking our AI dates. Because the weather has been so nice, we are also having people come out and look at the foals that are available. We are slowly getting them moved. We are really lucky to have so many nice ones. We are down to just Peeps, Gold Bug, and Alotta left to halter break and then we are done! Done just in time to start foaling with the 2025 foals.

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We have had a great, if rainy, start to 2025. We hope you and yours had a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve and an excellent beginning to 2025. Here is to a great upcoming year!

Posted on January 9, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

On Monday the CA crew was out bright and early to look at horses and get Peaches, Joss and Santana and head back to CA. Toni and Kade took them around for the tour. Everyone had a great time crammed into Toni’s pickup bouncing around the ranch to meet all the studs and mares. Later that day Kade rode Jag and Benelli and checked Jon’s cows. Anna and Ben checked our cows, we have another twin, this one we need to DNA, we think it is 801Ms, but not 100% sure. Goldy the Jersey is doing great with her two calves. Kaine and Ben have been working a trailer project, they are making a small flatbed trailer. Kaine and Kade are also catching their Spokane steers daily. Anna and Kade have also put CIDRs in their fall heifers and are AIing them right after the first of the year. Kade has been working on Benelli to get her in shape to start roping off of. Toni started halter breaking the next group Monday night, she thought this was going to be an easy group since two of her “pets” are in this group, Astra and Zell. Guess what, Astra and Zell just want to be pets, not horses. So she is planning on getting in a donkey on Tuesday, maybe two donkeys. North is the third one in, and she did great.

On Tuesday we had another calf, they are just trickling in since the AI cows are done. The CA horses made it home Tuesday morning, they were happy to have green grass and no mud. Toni got the donkeys in on Tuesday and tied Zell and North to donkeys and was the donkey for Astra. We had another twin on Tuesday. Ben, Anna, Kaine and Scarlett expanded the cow fence up to the Old Valley. We went to Connell and had a New Years Eve party in the show barn and played games. Toni and Kade both rode as the weather was decent.

Happy New Year! We let the cows into the New Stalks for New Years, they were pretty excited about it. Toni and I tied Zell and North back to the donkeys and Toni led Astra all over. Astra wants to please Toni so once she figured out what was wanted she has been good. North is also really good, just big. Zell wants to be the boss. I took Jet for a walk about, she did great. Anna and Ben came down and put out grass straw bales, I helped Anna when they got down there. We all went to bed early from being up all night the night before.

Guess what, it rained on Thursday. I did not know what we were going to do without the rain. Ben had to go back to work on Thursday after his month off. He was depressed about it. Anna and Kaine came down to Kennewick to pick up the minis that were at a coworkers house. They stopped off at my work and brought me lunch, and everyone went outside to pet the minis. Except Nikki who was in the lunch room and no one told her they were here. She is still upset about it. Toni went and stayed with grandma on Thursday.

Kade went for a ride on Friday between the rain storms. We have not gotten any good pics of the foals we are halter breaking because they are covered in mud. Toni took them for a walk about and they all did great. Marlo and Kade did chores Friday, Toni was down for a little bit but was starting to not feel well. Luckily the foals are all at a really good spot so she could just mess with them and not have any fights. Chad came out and trimmed the two minis we got back from Bobs.

We tagged the few calves we had this week Saturday morning. Then Anna and I made a feed area for Goldy the jersey in the nursey pen for her calf and her nurse calf. We opened the gate so she can go in the barn and down to the new pen so she has more room. Kaine and Kade tied up their Spokane steers and got weights on their CA steers. They are growing nicely. Then Kaine and Ben put out straw to the cattle around the barn so they had something to sleep on besides mud. Anna and I took flax mineral tubs out to the mares on the desert. Then Kade and I tired to put more cobs in the round pen, we were going to try to put them in Mirage, Copper and Jetts pen, but we could not get in there. So we switched to the round pen, also got stuck. Kade tried to start the Ford tractor, it would not start. So Ben had to come down and pull us through in the Case, but we got them out. Then Kade and I did chores. I led the three fillies while I was waiting for Ben and turned them out.

We had another new calf on Sunday, they are just trickling in now, and we tagged it so we can start out next week without everyone tagged. Then we got some pics of the bulls, or I did, with Murtaugh and Miranda who were not particularly helpful. Kade and Kaine worked on their steers. Anna worked on the two mini weanlings so we could get pics of them. Ben and Kaine then worked on the feed bunk at the top of the hill, the couple little weanlings calves we have have been crawling out, so they added another bar. Anna and I went back out to check and D187 had calved. We got some new pics of the calves. Kade and I got Peeps and Gold Bug in and haltered them and then did chores.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on December 24, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on December 17, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

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Another week of darkness behind us. The lack of light makes a person reckless because you still have 12 hours of work to do in not 12 hours of light. The key is not to die trying to work with livestock in the dark.

Posted on December 4, 2024 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was another rainy muddy day. Toni and Anna got the new halter breaking group in and took pics of Whitty and Cowy. Whitty and Cowy were supposed to get turned out with the other foals, but they decided to turn them in with the “special” foals. The “special” foals are just the 4 that got weaned first, so not really special as much as just weaned the longest so in their own pen. “7” calved on Monday and had twin bull calves. Last year she had twin heifers. Anna and the dogs checked the cows and grabbed one of the calves. Both calves are small, but have vigor. Kaine and Kade’s Spokane steers also got out through the feed panel, one of the bars broke off, and they went for a walk about so Anna got them back in. Anna told people that Kaine’s steer is wild, but Kaine doesn’t agree. Lets hope Kaine is right. Ben went and got our free standing panels when he got off of work from LDs. LD put hinges on a couple for our gates so we know have some free standing panels with swinging gates off of the one side. We are pretty excited and LD did a fantastic job. If anyone wants any of those big panels, LD and Gwen are getting another load to sell in the spring and have the panels priced competitively.

Tuesday we saw the sun for part of the day. Anna went out into circle 4 and finished pulling out T posts from the old fence we used to have in the middle. Toni worked on Sugar Cookie, Radiant Rifle and Alme and she said they were all awesome. We were a bit nervous about Rad and Alme. Rad is really big, a typical Gunner foal, and was out in the desert so has had less exposure than some, but she was solid. Alme has been our spoiled boy, but was also super solid. That is good news since it is still so muddy we are hesitant to use the donkeys. Toni could lead all three the first day, and Alme and Sugar Cookie started leading like they knew what they were doing within a couple of minutes. Sugar Cookie is our AI baby sired by The Goodbye Blues.

I was home on Wednesday so Anna, Ben and I checked cows. Mom, Anna and I ran to Othello and got a few things, including a shelf for the freezer for Ben to organize the freezer. Toni and I tried out the new dump and put a bale of straw in the round pen, in with Copper and the “special” foals. We took Radiant Rifle, Sugar Cookie and Alme for a walk about. I just led Alme, so Toni made fun of me that she had to do the other two. Yes, because all three were just so hard, that was my sarcastic voice. Because of all the rain we had a puddle that still had quite a bit of water in it so we were leading the foals through the water, standing them in the water, just getting them exposed to anything we could out in the driveway. When we are doing chores there are lots of things to be exposed to- dogs, lots of dogs, Reno the puppy that is already a cow dog, the boys on the 4-Wheeler, loud talking, more dogs. All three of the foals took everything in stride, they were just like whatever. Sugar Cookie didn’t like walking in the water, but Toni worked on her and got her to have some trust, moving freely in the water.

Happy Thanksgiving, Vixen gave Kade a cute clubby x heifer on Thanksgiving, and 139 also calved and had a bull. Terry and Erina came down and we all went to Tonis. We had a great Thanksgiving with friends, family, good food, and laughs. We all ate too much and were thankful for the blessings in our lives. We were missing one of the kids, but otherwise we had a full house. After our big dinner, we managed to go do chores. We took the foals out to walk through mud muddles. Kaine brought Reno down to do chores, and she was very helpful with the foals, still my sarcastic voice. These foals have really been a joy to work with. They tie great, easy to catch, and have just been about perfect.

We had someone out to look at bulls on Friday, so we got them in and sorted them. Just to jump ahead, we also did that Saturday and Sunday, it is good having people come out. We sold three bulls in three days to three repeat buyers. We checked cows tagging calves. Ben and I hauled corn cobs around with the dump trailer to muddy areas. Kaine welded on a gate. Anna cleaned out the barn. Kaine and I hauled corn cobs down to mom and dads Marlo, Kaine and I spread them out. Marlo and I led the three foals through them and they did great. The corn cobs are kind of weird to walk on if you aren’t used to them, they are spongy so they sink down, but they can also roll out from under you, so again, interesting. The corn cobs do help soak up the water and mud, so make the corral a much safer environment overall with all the excess moisture we have been getting. The foals liked Marlo and exhibited no stranger danger at all.

On Saturday we tagged the calves in the heavy heifer pen, including Ben’s No Horn. No Horn is out of a Longhorn cow and an Angus bull which equals no horns. I also like to say that is a waste, but at least he now has one longhorn that has calved so not just a money pit. Kaine and I hauled Boon and Reina to mom and dads, the heavy heifers went into their pen and they did not need that much hay. Boon is already getting really fat and sassy, so going to mom’s is a better spot for them both.

On Sunday we started putting out the freestanding panels we bought from LD Green. We put one with a gate in Sagebug’s pen, one is Hauls pen, and put some straw in both pens. Ben claims Sagebug as “his” stud because Sagebug is so good to deal with and can be left with the bulls all winter. Then we loaded some straw hay into the dump trailer and took the freestanding panels that go down to moms down to moms. Kaine, Ben, dad and I got them up. Toni got down there in time to help Katie and Chad load Sugar Cookie. She is going to go to Pullman for a while and see if she wants to be a barrel horse in a few years. Katie and Alvina have both Cash and Sugar Cookie now. So our barrel bred fillies that we want to keep and also want to see turn cans. We are excited to see how they do. We got some pictures of Ink for a person that had texted requesting new pics. We also got some video of Dancing Bug for a friend that is interested in her. Dancing Bug is a big filly with a big motor, but very smart. Then we haltered the next group, Peaches, Sarge and Buzzy. We dumped the bales out with the foals. It was fully dark by the time we got everything done.