Posts Tagged ‘ranch life’

Cow Camp: A Wife’s Perspective

July 30, 2015
Jolyn Young

Cow camp living is so romantic that I went out and bought myself a Glock. I might have a different attitude if I was the one rolling my bed for a week or more of camping fun with horses and cows, but since I’m now the cowboy’s wife staying home alone in an empty house […]

Working out of the Rodear

July 25, 2015
Jenn Zeller

Summer is in full swing here on the ranch, and that means lots of riding time, colts to start (which means less blogging and sharing stuff with y’all), ranch interns who are here to work and learn, calf brandings galore, and plenty of extra folks around hanging out. Life couldn’t be better. Among the many […]

“You live HOW FAR from town?!”

July 23, 2015
Jolyn Young

When we got married, I think Jim took it as a personal challenge to see how far he could move me from town. Our first home was at the 25 Ranch, twenty miles from the small town of Battle Mountain and 70 miles from the larger town of Winnemucca. I drove an hour and a […]

The Roping Of A Bull (The Dumb Things Done For Wages)

July 7, 2015
Jan Swan Wood

  Years ago I was working for an outfit that ran lots of cows with very little management. The gathering of the cows was quite a challenge as the country was rough with gumbo breaks, timbered ridges and oak thickets and nowhere on the whole ranch was a pasture with a decent fence on it. […]

Hobble Training

July 6, 2015
Jenn Zeller

Having a horse that will hobble is one of the handiest things a person could need; especially if you’re in the ranching business. But hobbling isn’t only helpful for keeping your horse close when you’re out of places to tie him up. It teaches him countless other things. It teaches him how to yield to […]

Wrangling The Cavvy

July 1, 2015
Jolyn Young

If you want to be Cavvy Savvy, you gotta savvy how to wrangle the cavvy. Heh heh heh. Anyway, back to business. Bringing in the saddle horses is a daily chore on a working cattle ranch, as it’s healthier for the horses and more efficient for the management to turn the whole bunch out into […]

The Mares

June 29, 2015
Jenn Zeller

We got our mare bunch in the other day to sort some colts and do some other miscellaneous things with them. I snuck out before the horses arrived, tucked myself in the cattle loading chute, and snapped a few photos. I thought you might want to see how pretty our horse herd here at the […]

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 […]

Nothing But A Whole Lotta Sagebrush

May 30, 2015
Jolyn Young

I love poking around old homesteads. I especially like to stand at the kitchen (if there is a kitchen) window and look out to see what the ranch wife’s view was when she cooked. It’s usually a small window and a whole lotta sagebrush. Nowadays, our windows are bigger and filled with glass, but there’s […]