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Tag Archives: cattle ranch
Masquerading Cheese
It seems that every year the dates of the annual round up come earlier and earlier – or is that a sign of age?? Actually, this year the date has come earlier, as we moved our spring gather forward. Consequently we will be branding calves a month sooner than usual, and then, later in the year, selling them a month sooner also, hoping to beat the rush to market by the rest of the ranching community. Continue reading
Time of Many Fruits
Well, here we are again at that magic time of what the Apaches called “Time of Many Fruits”, and which we, less poetically, know as “Fall” – and with it comes the fall round up, starting this coming Monday. We will gather the pastures, bring in the cows and calves, and take all the steers and some of the heifers to the cattle auction. Normally we keep back about 20-30 Continue reading
Round Up!
Dear Friends,
If you think you haven’t heard from me for a long while you’re right.
First of all we had our normal November round up, complicated this year by the fact that we had decided not to sell the calves in October due to the bad market prices, but took the advice of our sale Continue reading
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Tagged brangus, cattle ranch, guest ranch, horses, round-up, team penning, Thanksgiving
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Rain!
Dear Friends,
So what’s new!!
The most wonderful thing has happened here in the desert – it’s raining! Those of you living in climates such as Denmark or Germany or England, or anywhere else in the world where it rains as a matter of course (and the trees Continue reading
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Tagged arizona wild flowers, cattle ranch, mesquite trees, monsoon rain, nature
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