Working Cattle @ The Kessi Ranch
If I am not at my sewing machine...
I am doing something cattle related.
Today we gathered up a few of the mama cows
and brought them into the corral to be worked.
The Cowboy is getting the head gate adjusted
on the squeeze chute...
I am getting all of the vaccines and cattle
medications ready. I use the bed of the
pick up as a work table...
This is the view from the end of the chute...
the cattle come down a crowding alley
then into the squeeze cute...
The first cow is in and we are ready to go...
She will get her vaccination shots,
de-wormer, vitamins and her
fly tags will be removed from ears...
The squeeze chute does not hurt them,
it keeps them upright so they don't
move around and fall down.
It keeps them still so we can
work quickly and get them back out
into the field in just a few minutes.
This is Althea Red
She is a Shorthorn mama and a real beauty !
The Cowboy is removing fly tags
from Mary Blackfeather's ears...
they keep the flies off her face in the summer.
Mary Blackfeather is 11 years old
and used to being worked on in the chute.
This is my sweetheart Elsa
She is the daughter of Golden Girl
The night Elsa was born it was 17 degrees
and she nearly froze to death.
Golden Girl lead us over to her frozen calf
and we took her to the basement and thawed her
out with a hair dryer and tubed her with
warm colostrum. After 3 days we were able
to bring her out to the pasture to give her back
to her mama.
This is Golden Delicious,
also the daughter of Golden Girl.
She is 4 years old.
This is Rosabell
The sweetest, little cow....we love her so much.
I wish I could show you more images of
what we do when we are working cattle but...
I can't hold the camera and give shots at the same time!
You can see videos on my Instagram
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
