Saturday, July 2, 2016

May/June 2016 Branding Time and Turnout

Nelson Ranch 2016 Branding/Turnout Time



Welcome to the Nelson Ranch's picture story of 2016 Branding and Turnout.  After the long calving season the calves are then branded and vaccinated. It takes several weeks to do them all, most of April and May.  Then in June the cattle pairs are gathered from the local pastures and then turned out on the Forest Service Permit which takes about 2 weeks to complete. 

Ready to Go

John and Tyler  pushing calves to chute.


Nick Branding

Cynthia Vaccinating

                                 It was a very wet Spring Season!




Helping with Gate

Averie, Katie and Grandpa Brian

Averie and Katie checking out Calves at Corral
After Branding in May the Cow pairs are then gathered and taken to the Forest. 614 pairs are turned out in June. 


Billie helping gather pairs from local pasture

Gathering Cow Pairs from Newman's pasture

John Looking for Cow Pairs



John and Emitt on "Hank"

John and Emitt helping sort Pairs in Corral

Billie helping sort Cow Pairs

Cynthia and "Magic"  sorting Cow Pairs

Nick and "Jessie"

Great Cow Horse: Jessie and Nick

After Cow pairs are sorted, they are trailered to the Forest for the summer grazing time. 


Lovely Green Grass

Finally going in the Forest

Out they go!

John making sure they go down trail

Brian checking out Path 
Another Batch Out

Crew Warming Up 

Averie and Jessie 

Matt, Katie and Averie

Turnout Trailer Crew at Squaw Camp

Squaw Camp Turnout

June is also Baby Foal Time at the Nelson Ranch

Grace and Red Dun Filly born June 2, 2016

Beautuful!


Awesome Fall Calf

Another Fall Calf

Missy and Colt born May 28,2016



Stay tuned for the next update from the Nelson Ranch blog:  Haying Season!


Cynthia Nelson, Nelson Ranch





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