End of deer season
Pat spotted these mule deer north of Baggs.
Deer family crossing highway 789.
photos by Pat O'Toole
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Pat spotted these mule deer north of Baggs.
Deer family crossing highway 789.
photos by Pat O'Toole
Sorting calves in the alley
photo by Meghan Lally
We have just completed our annual fall ritual of shipping calves. In our high mountain country, the calves are born in the spring, spent the summer with their moms in the lush forested high country, and get on trucks for winter pasture just ahead of our winter weather. We sell them to feeders who keep them until they are ready to go to the feedlot. Many of the heifer calves are kept by the buyer as "replacements" who will go up to be cows with calves of their own. This year we sold our calves through the Superior Livestock video auction.
Gathering the Lower Meadow
view from Chief
Guard dog keeping watch
Home Ranch
photos by Sharon O'Toole
Bringing up the cows
Maeve, asleep on Chief
Ned McKee, brand inspecting (looks a lot like helping)
Pat, sorting
Looking for their calves
photos by Meghan Lally
Squaw Mountain
photo by Sharon O'Toole
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