Sitting Down on the Job

Nancy Moore — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:42:38 +0000

Laramie and Joe have extra help this year with the younger horses. We have an intern here this summer helping with everything from feeding the bottle calves to training horses. In between helping neighbors brand their calves and calving out the longhorn cows, Alex, Laramie and Joe have been making lots of headway this summer.

Alex has been doing some ground work with the three-year-olds and some of the two-year-old colts after Joe has roped a back leg and gotten a halter on them.
This little gelding was a hand full. He decided it was easier to sit down on the job rather than to give into Joe. It looks like he might be our challenge for the summer.

Snow, the Best Cure for the 2 year Drought

Nancy Moore — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:36:22 +0000

This was the view from our front porch last week. We have waited a long time for moisture. Finally we had a snow which was full of moisture to cover all the pastures.

We weren’t able to get out of the ranch that day. All of the longhorn cattle and all the cattle Joe looks after in the winter-time were 30-40 miles away. The next day all three of us took a truck, loaded a skid-steer loader on a trailer and began digging our way out. When the first truck got stuck, we would pull it out and then Joe would dig out the road with the skid-steer.

Each of us had a truck to haul bales with. The county roads were completely blocked, but we made it to our cattle by going through pastures and fields and letting fences down. In the above photo I had made it as far as I could. I waited til Joe took my two bales and slowly delivered them to the heifers and bulls.

To reach two pastures of cattle and the bull pasture with four bales took 1 1/2 hours.

The entire day was time consuming. On this road, Shane got stuck and then Laramie got stuck.

We all made it to another hay stack, just to find it was drifted in too deep to get any hay for the cows.

Pat was there with his Steiger tractor and blade to push all the snow out of the way. This is how the whole day progressed. Pat pushed the snow out of the way and the rest of us followed behind to feed hay, break ice and check cattle. We made it to every pasture of cattle that day and made it home after the sun was down to do evening chores at the ranch.

Since then it has been nice and muddy and Joe has been stuck numerous times in the snow or mud. What a joy! Hopefully this is a great sign that the drought is on its

Moore Longhorn Ranch

Sitting Down on the Job

Snow, the Best Cure for the 2 year Drought