Getting Ready
There’s a storm coming. We know it is coming so we have time to get ready. Of course we are calving. There’s nothing like baby calves to bring on the…
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It was hot. Summer is always hot but this was exceptional. The year had been bone dry. No rain, no grass, no hay to be putting up. That was why…
Read moreHelping Hand
You all know Ghost. My sweet little white heifer. She is back out in the corn stalks with the rest of the herd now living a feral life. Why bother…
Read moreOut To Pasture
Ghost, Poppy, Baa, and Violet rubbed a panel open in their pen last week. I got a phone call that some cows and a goat had run past the in…
Read moreRoping Cows
Ghost is as much fun as the horses for sure. sometimes more fun. We’ve been working on roping. Someone said they’d be impressed by Rusty’s roping when he was roping…
Read moreRiding A Ghost
Ghost is learning to line up to a mounting block (fence 😉 ) and has had weight on her back for the first time! There is no rush to actually…
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Ghost has been learning to tell her colors. Just like the horses do. Apparently they both see blue and yellow which is handy, since I have things in those colors.…
Read moreChange In Weather
The weather has been getting colder. We had a small snow, just enough to settle the dust. Then good weather, enough that they could get most of the corn combined.…
Read moreThe Strangest Positive Reinforcement Story I’ve Ever Heard
I know all the rules of the training, I know positive reinforcement is effective, I know it works. We needed something done RIGHT NOW though. There wasn’t time to train.…
Read moreTreat Manners
I’ve stopped training Ghost. She and Blossom have started trying to run me over. The resource guiding and over enthusiasm has reached the point of being dangerous. The whole herd…
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