Category Archives: Sustainability/Natural Farming
H-E-B Visits the Ranch
Recently H-E-B, a grocery store chain from Texas, came to the ranch to see how the ranch operates and how the cattle are handled and raised in a natural environment. In an effort to further educate the customers and end users, when visiting the ranch we included them in working ranch operations. In the middle of September we were pre-conditioning our calves, which means we were giving them their vaccination shots before weaning time as we will wean sometime mid … continued…
The Farrier
As we get ready for calving we make sure we have all the right gear – warm jacket, long underwear, a good pair of boots, maybe some new gear and horse shoes. That’s right – horse shoes! Not only do we get ourselves ready for calving, we get our horses ready too… and part of that is a good set of shoes. Shoes help protect the horses’ hooves from rocks and hard, uneven ground. Are they necessary? Well, that depends … continued…
Breaking horses
Winter on the ranch is a somewhat slower time as there’s not a lot you can do when the ground is full of snow and ice. We generally feeds cows, do some basic maintenance on equipment and if we have time we work with some horses. We have a big enough barn that we can set up a make shift round corral in and it at least gets us inside and out of the elements. You can’t really ride any … continued…
