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Yesterday we branded the calves. Today we had to sort off some pairs and we hauled the remaining 100 pairs off to their summer home. Two semi trailers and 3 stock trailers full of the cows. And 2 stock trailers stacked full of the little calves. Mixed in with the cows was half a dozen Angus...

I got to thinking. The branding in the pictures was the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Shirt sleeves and not a coat in sight. Unlike yesterday where everyone was digging out their coat and buttoning it up. Low 20's this morning and it looks mighty frosty out.

I think today was the 8th or 9th branding I have helped at this year. Two or three every week and others that I knew about but didn't attend. Some of them have too many people. Some of them not enough help. Today was about right. But it was about the most miserable weather. Which is saying...

They can be. But I bought mine at a equipment auction for $800. It was new. You just need to take your time and search. I bought a chute with a crowd alley. Turned around and sold the chute for more than I had paid so I had a crowd alley for free. The only expensive thing in my set up was...

I have about 3 flags, 2 rattle paddles, several assorted sorting sticks, and 2 hot shots. But my preferred method involves a couple of the well mounted cowboy neighbors and me sitting in the shade. When they get the job done I get them their preferred cold beverage out of the frig in the shop.

We are closer than you but it is still 75 miles to either sale barn. I know of nobody here who will haul a trailer load. Unless you are talking a semi trailer load. Virtually everyone here has a trailer or 2 or even 3. Probably a quarter of them have their own semi with a cattle trailer...

We don't get very much snow here in the valley. The majority of what we do get in snow in the morning and gone by afternoon.

One of my neighbor's house, barns, etc is on the south side of the river. His cow herd winters on the north side. His range land is on the south side. The river is running too high to cross the calves. So rather than drown the calves he brings them up and uses my bridge. This means they...

I started feeding around the first of November. Fed the last bale yesterday. I wouldn't have started feeding so early but last year's calves had ate all the regrowth in the meadows. And I had started buying new cows. Wasn't on full feed until some time in December..

Daffodils blooming in the flower bed. The apricot tree in the back yard is in full bloom. Fresh snow this morning on the hill just a little above the house. Yep, sure signs of spring here in Baker County.

This picture is from Saturday's branding. Calves got branded on Saturday and on Monday they all got hauled out to the hills to work for a living until fall.

I went to a branding last Friday and on Saturday and then again on Tuesday. Guessing over 700 calves total. Another on on Friday. We are branding here on Saturday. Followed by another one on Sunday and them again on Monday. By talking to the other guys at brandings they have been to ones...

Both calves were doing OK today. The river calf being the bigger of the two got a ear tag and gets to stay with Mom. The twin being the smaller got a trip to B's house to be a bottle calf and a future graft calf when duty calls.

I wasn't swimming I was wading. The calf wasn't swimming either. He was rolling down the river in the fast moving currant. Thinking back it is interesting how something like this made me go from being 72 to being 25 again. A week ago I had to wade out in the river. Of course I had time to...

To all those who liked or wowed my story. You know what they say. "Everyone wants to be a cowboy, until it is time to do cowboy sh!t." Wilfred Brimley

This set today and one set last year. No more over the last 5 years that I recall. There is between 80 and 120 cows that calf out here every year. B always has some but they calf out 1,600 so you would expect some. They do come in handy if you need a graft calf.

Depending on which university expert you believe the odds of twins in cattle is from 0.5% to 2%. So one in every 200 births to one in every 50. I have always thought it was around 1 in 100.

Not much out to supper goes on around here. It is about 30 miles to the nearest restaurant. Nothing that he hasn't done for me. After we had the twins together we tagged 4 new calves. I fixed the fence at the stack yard. Back to the house before noon. He left to take a horse the Idaho...

After I fed I went back to the front field with the bucket on the tractor. When the main ditch got cleaned several big rocks and willow root wads got rolled down into the field ditch. I wanted to clean them out. While driving out there I saw a cow calving. When I got done I notice a cow off by...

All of us who use water out of the ditch.Whatever the total bill comes to divided up by the number of irrigated acres you have. It is going to be around $7-$10 per acre. My bill will run $200-$300. It is still pretty cheap water. Teh guys over in the Treasure Valley pay $60 an acre every...