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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on May 27, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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We had a family filled week, both with our show family and our actual family. We are down to just a few mares left to foal. Per the norm, we are loving this foal crop.

Posted on May 23, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Minnie had another fancy palomino filly by Dude on Monday. An outside mare showed up Monday to breed to Cappy, so we hauled her out there. She immediately got out, he is in a hot fence in the middle of the wheat, we put her back and she is on her last chance. But she has stayed in so far since then, knock on wood. So maybe she was surprised by it?? She was also in heat. Sandy and Ashley also came out on Monday and Sandy put a deposit on her two foals. Toni got lots of pictures as they went from one end of the ranch to the other to see the foals. The kids are busy working on their steers and heifers to go to Wheatland this weekend.

Star had a chestnut filly on Tuesday by MC. Anna and mom took the 5 puppies to the vet for shots. Cricket has been living at moms, since she is mom’s, and apparently the other 4 did not miss her, and were not happy to see her, especially not Trixie. Anna helped Kade record his video for FFA Officer on Tuesday.

Kaine had a sports physical Wednesday morning, so he ran my half ton work pickup, it is not going into forward, into see Dewey in Othello to see how much it would cost to fix it. The Brother Jackson semen showed up Wednesday, so hopefully Gina will be bred and come home from Allies. Reba was bred a few days ago. Kade and Toni got all of the colts West Nile vaccinated and wormed Wednesday. Pine got sorted off to go by himself, he is going to Ellenburg to be with Tylar and Dillion. They are taking him through Moses Lake/Central WA Livestock at the catalog horse sale for us. Toni and I got some videos and pics of Alotta, and played with the yearling fillies for a bit.

On Thursday dad, mom and Anna took a load of Anna’s stuff up to Moscow to her house up there, and got the keys to the house. Mom and dad said it was a lot of walking up and down stairs. Toni went to Evie’s Preschool graduation, and then brought her home to play with the horses. They wormed and West Niled the fillies in the afternoon. And got some new pics of some of them. Jaxsen helpedish as well. Evie really enjoyed helping and is good and handing what a person needs. All the fillies were great to work on. Toni still wants to keep them all.

On Friday Anna and dad went and got my pick up Deweys. They also got Costco. Steve Jarmin brought his mare out to breed. Toni met Dillion and Ty in Royal City with Pine, and picked up a donkey for our neighbor. This is a pet donkey, not a halter breaking donkey. Cousins Linda and Patricia came Friday late afternoon. I went to Grandma’s Friday night but everyone else went to Toni’s house for family dinner.

Ben and the three older kids headed to the Wheatland Jackpot first thing Saturday morning. Mom, dad, Linda, Patricia and I followed up at a reasonable hour. Toni, Jaxsen and Skip moved horses all day. Kicker chased water. The show was good. All our Angus heifers won their class and made it back to the championship round. Anna made it back in showmanship. Aubrey went with them and I think everyone had a great time?? Toni, Jaxsen, and Skip spent way more time moving horses than they had planned. They ended up having to catch Minnie and Star out on the 70 acre field and lead them to the corral. Both the little fillies loaded really well. They also had to get the two of the outside mares from Cappy’s pen and take to the corral for pickup on Sunday. We then had another family dinner at Toni’s so everyone could have a good visit.

On Sunday Big Kevin went to live with the Palmer kid for a while, however, they raise pigs and it sounds like Kevin is not a big fan. Kade and Anna took 4 heifers to preg check and the show cattle to Connell for Jai to do Health papers to go to Desert Storm. Kaine went with his friend Danny to Pasco to pick up a motorcycle. We had some friends come out to borrow Kevin, so loaded him out. Toni and Patricia went looking for eagles nests and beaver huts. Driving and walking around, seeing what there is to see. They went to all the most isolated places on the ranch. Patricia is an avid bird watcher and likes the nature hikes. Jaxsen and I took 2 of the donkey to Whitneys to eat weeds. Ben was cutting trees with the skidsteer. Patricia and I hauled some bales down and put them out with the dump. Kade road Roanie around and got him ready for people to see. We had Skips birthday party that night at Tonis.

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We are down to just the last few mares to foal and couldn’t be happier with this year’s foal and calf crop.

Posted on May 16, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

Back to the grind after Jr Show on Monday. Kaine and Kade only had a couple days of school and then they were headed to FFA State convention, Jaxsen is home one day longer before he went up. Kaine and Kade are on the Ag Sales Team and Jaxsen is in Food Products (jr high competition). Toni was taking 3 old mares to Sheena on Tuesday to get their teeth floated, so we gathered them up Monday night. Copper was going as well, because as many of you may remember, she somehow got her leg caught in the gate chain last summer as a foal still on her dam, well it is infected again and mom wants Sheena to have a look at it. And Heidi, our mare from TX is going in to get a blood panel, she was exposed to their stud before we got her, so we just want to see what is going on. We caught Heidi as well just because she wasn’t worked with much before we got her. She is just a clean slate.

Tuesday morning dad and Toni took the horses in dropped them off with Sheena. Heidi is open. Sheena says Copper legs looks pretty good, we just need to give her exceed. And Blue was terrible to do floating her teeth, we were all surprised by that (that is my sarcastic voice since you cannot heat my tone). Mr Pickles the donkey went in with Copper since he has been locked in with her while we were gone. He is a great companion animal. Everything got done pretty timely so Toni went and loaded up and came home with them. We are really thankful for Sheena. We moved Absolute to the dog pen in the back yard since she is waxed for the 2^nd day.

I guess Absolute just wanted to foal in mom’s dog pen, she had a bay roan filly by Gunner Wednesday morning. Queenie had a fancy palomino colt by Tank. Full brother to Cowy. Juan called and had time to come out and weld the circle Wednesday. He did a great job, and now we have water back on. Circle 6 was trying to crash on us. Toni showed Juan where the sleeve was needed then went back to work. Kaine and Kade headed to Pullman with the Connell FFA chapter to participate in Ag Sales. They were not leaving until evening, so go to do chores before they left.

The Jr High, so Jaxsen, headed up to FFA State on Thursday morning. I do not recall what he said his competition is called. But they are evaluating different goods, like meats, cheese, chocolate chips? My info is from Jaxsen, he says he is really good at it, he was 5^th at state, so he must be pretty good. He thought he would be in the top three and wasn’t super happy about being 5^th. His team was 2^nd in the state. He says that is why he is so good at making sandwiches. He knows what to put on it. So just us adults doing all the chores for a few days.

On Friday dad and Steve delivered a bull to Oregon. The dogs and I fixed the fence between 5 and 6, the calves were crawling out into the wheat field. We, the dogs and I, took a bunch of pics of Gunners foals, and then we went out and checked Sagebug foals. Toni, Marlo and I did the horse chores. Ben did the cow chores. Jaxsen was home late Friday (12:03 Saturday morning). We had a gal come out to look at Blonde. No, Toni doesn’t want to sell her. The gal really liked Blonde and all the other foals too of course. All of the fillies are obnoxiously tame. And July was out there, so it was a fun tour.

Anna came home from college on Saturday. Butte Red pickup had been up at Chipman and Taylor, so as part of my mothers day present she went and had it cleaned on Friday. It looks really good. Kade and Kaine’s Ag Sales Team was 5^th at State, good job boys! Kade scores a perfect score on the written test and Kaine was 8^th overall individual. Toni showed horses Saturday morning. We have a deposit on BB’s filly. Anna and I got the cows in and sorted the bulls off of the heifers. When Ben got home from work he helped and Toni and Jaxsen came down after lunch. We banded the later bull calves and the black ballie and clubbies. Kade and Kaine got home late Saturday night.

Happy Mothers Day. Freida had a big palomino colt on Mothers Day that looked like he had been in the oven too long. Toni and Mom gave him Nursemate ASAP, which we do with all of Freida’s foals. Ben made us all lunch, bacon wrapped shrimp, brisket, dutch oven potatoes, and he baked two of mom’s peach pies. Lunch was great. Then the boys worked on their steers to get them ready to go to Wheatland this weekend. Toni and I went out and moved Gracie and Queenie in with Tank. Kade and Jaxsen got Opal, Lightening and Mocha in while we were getting the other two in, and moved them out into the pasture. Kaine hauled Venus back to her house, Venus is an outside mare getting bred to MC, and Kaine is dating the daughter of Venus’ owner. So it worked out for her to go home. Lots of work done this weekend.

Mothers Day is celebrated everyday here! Our Mothers make our ranch and our program what it is. We are pretty proud of what our breeding program has done on the dam side for both the cattle and the horses. We are down to just the last few mares to foal and couldn’t be happier with this year’s foal and calf crop.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on May 13, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on May 6, 2025 by horseshoeangusranch

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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!