Moving cows

This weekend I had an opportunity to do something I havent done in a LONG time

I realized it has been TEN years since Ive done this!!!!!

TEN YEARS!
I all of a sudden felt very old

I was able to go help my second dad and brother from another mother move cows

I used to spend every weekend out with them at the Fort Ranch in promotory when I was a Sophomore an Junior
This drive was a little shorter just to Corinne but still nice!

I havent even ridden a horse in quite a while

It took me a minute to remember how to keep my butt down in the saddle at different speeds

but man loping across a field just made me smile

Travis let me ride his blue roan named Blue

He was such a good horse

Me and Blue

The skies were really over cast

We had to go into a field and gather up a buch of pairs (moms and babies)

Cut out about 30 pairs to leave in one field and move the rest into another pen

The moms have to stay paired up with the calves

We got the two piles seperated and had a calf jump through one of the fences and take back off with the other cows

Cassidy and I gathered up the group and slowly started heading them towards the gate

The cowboss Joe, Travis and Jon went to cut the calf out of the group and bring it back

Cassidy kept our group bunched and watched the fun

The spunky calf was running all over the place

Ended up jumping through another fence and into another field and took off

They finally got him brought back around and joined back up with his mom

Cassidy and Joe M.

We took the herd we had and bunched them into a smaller holding pen

Had another calf jump out of the fence and they had to get him back with his mom

Travis

Jon

After that we opened the gates and pushed them all out down the road

There were several 'holes' aka spots they can escape wether its through a fence, or down the road, into a yard etc

We were taking them out into the open, down a dirt road, down a paved road, around a corner, down a dirt road seperating a field on each side that we had to keep the cows out of and into another pasture

5 of us on horses

a few people blocking intersections wtih trucks

Joe lead the way

Cassidy flanked one side and tried to block some holes

Travis, Jon and I brought up the rear

We had one calf escape

The same one that escaped earlier

He jumped through a hole and into a pen with a bunch of other pairs

Travis and Jon

After they were pushed into the last pen they needed to be in we had to hold the herd together while they cut out pairs

Needed to make sure everything was paired up

It started raining for a few minutes at this point

They were all accounted for minus our one escapee

We rode back to the pen where he hid at

Travis roped him

Then Jon and to 'throw' him down and re position the rope so it didnt hurt him

Then he was led out to the horse trailer where he was taken back down to his momma

Me, Jon and Travis

I realized after all those years working and riding together there were NO pictures of it really or of us all together so I tried to make up for lost time this go round!

My ass hurts and I love it haha!

Its been way too long and it feels good to be back out riding again