Up Up
We continued the trail to the Slope Pasture, me in the sxs with Reagan, Vernon also following bringing pickup and horse trailer. We’d catch up to the herd… then fall behind as we rolled up old barbed wire… a big danger for horses. Someday, as we keep going up this trail, all of it will...
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/2025/07/01/up-up-2/
Close Calls
So branding took up a good morning… starting at 6:30, we were eating delicious breakfast burritos, watermelon, and cookies by 100 or so. The neighbors left to go finish out a full day of work and so did we. The next day, it was time to take those cows and calves and head up the...
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/20....25/06/30/close-calls
Mission Accomplished
The size of the calves we just branded was a challenge. I was happy to be branding the calves, not wrestling! I managed to snag some pics of one of Jaxon’s struggles. He starts off perfect. The proper technique is one wrestler grabs the calf’s tail, and another grabs the rope. It should off balance...
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/2025/06/28/33225/
Branding Again
We branded the end of April. Calves were two months old… big enough to handle the stress but not so big that we couldn’t hold them! The tail end of the herd, though, were just newborn or weeks old, and Johnny Greet (and the rest of us) have never been big fans of branding them...
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/20....25/06/27/branding-ag
