Posts Tagged ‘branding’
Branding Pen Etiquette
May 5, 2018
Savanna Simmons
Last year, my husband Boe and I went to our friend’s branding. We arrived on time, were ready to ride out when the group was, and we stayed with our friend on the big loop, per his orders. It was a lovely dewy morning and the chill was just starting to come out of the […]
Branding: More than Just a Job to do
June 18, 2017
Savanna Simmons
I was invited to photograph our friend the Wasserburger’s branding a few weeks ago, and I jumped at the chance immediately. There are so many good moments to soak in at brandings from a cowboy perspective: those neat horses like that of our friend and coworker Clay Ashurst’s Tebow, that daintily slinks through the herd […]
Training a colt in the branding pen– a few tips
February 24, 2017
Savanna Simmons
Ask A Pro Question: “Can you offer any tips for training a colt their first few times in the branding pen?” Use these tips to help your young horse get a solid start in the branding pen. The photos of Boe Simmons on SFR Driftchip Honest were taken during the Four Three’s age-branding heifers this January. […]
Consider Heading and Heeling
July 26, 2016
Savanna Simmons
Many brandings in our part of the country, eastern Wyoming, western South Dakota, and western Nebraska, are host to hind-feet roping and drag brandings. Once calves are roped and dragged to the fire, they are secured via nord-fork, a crew of wrestlers, or a front-foot roped staked into the ground. Here’s one simple reason why […]
Cowboy Chiggers
March 5, 2016
Tayler Teichert
Shifting, left to right, right to left but nope, nothing was comfortable. I was sick of standing on my feet. We were about 5 calves in after we had just swapped ropers, and I was restless. We had a crew of four – two up heading and heeling and the other two working the ground […]
Photos from the Branding Pen
June 17, 2015
Jenn Zeller
Branding season is in full swing, here in Armstrong County, SD. If you’re up for a bit of history lesson, Armstrong County really isn’t a county at all, anymore. It’s now part of Dewey County, but the folks here still refer to it as Armstrong. It’s about 800,000 acres give or take, and has […]
Branding Yahtzee
June 11, 2015
Tayler Teichert
I’ve heard the word Yahtzee yelled across many branding traps the past few months, it’s the interjection of choice for this branding season I guess. I never played Yahtzee as a kid so I decided to google the rules and I discovered that you yell yahtzee when you roll all the same number on the […]