Ranch Animals (Part 5)

Folks, I'm really dreading saying this. *Inhales deeply....* I reckon I'll have ta slow down to posting somethin' once a week. Or a LEAST fer the summer. *...... And blows out breath*


 This weeks post is 'bout the chickens. See that thing in the picture below? We call them "chicken tractors". Every year we git a hundred butcher chicks, raise 'em up in the summer and butcher them in the fall. We keep 'bout twenty-five in each tractor.

















The layin' hens are my job. Ever since I was five years old (stories get stretched....) they've been my job. We used ta have a fence 'round our garden, but fer some reason that I don't remember we took it down.




Mama didn't like my hens scratching up her cucumbers so we ha to put them In a tractor just like the other chickens.














This is my prize Banty rooster, Oliver. He's two thirds the size o' the laying hens! Boy, he sure do think he's he's somethin', strutin' around the lawn. I call him "King of the yard".





This hen is fixin' to lay an egg in the makeshift nest.







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Busy, Busy, Busy

Alright, folks. So sorry there won't be another ranch animals post for I don't know how long. On Saturday was my sisters graduation and I meant to do a post about it but life got to busy. Yesterday and today I've been riding hard and fast getting all our cows and calves in to work them. First they get a shot and then an ear tag. If its a bull calf then he gets a band too. It's something we do every year.







That's a lot of ol' cows to chase in, guys!

(All of our cattle in total is a lot.)







-Lexah

Ranch Animals (Part 4)

We have a problem with orange cats. Orange colored felines used to be rare to us kids, but something changed. Now, a couple years later 95% of them are ORANGE. I'm sick and tired of the color.


Four legged fur balls come and go like livestock at a sale here at our ranch. Their purpose is to eat mice, and not cat food that costs money.

It's always fun to go on a search for a new litter of kittens.
Then we tame 'em, and they grow up and get all ugly and not cute.

One time Landon and I stole a mouse from a cat, and we were gonna make it our pet and feed in peanut butter and cheese. But as we were carrying it back to the house Landon dropped it, and while we were looking for it he stepped on it. We tried doing CPR even though we didn't really know how. It died shortly after the failed atempt to revive its  poor, sad little life. We laid it by a cat and slowly walked home in distress for the poor creature.
That was a sad day, but we had chocolate icecream and it made everything a little better.





















Meet 'Charky' in the picture straight down.





Cedric.....





And Rudy.

Ranch Animals (Part 3)

We have one ranch dog. Her name is Lady.
She's part German shepherd and part... Oooh, I can't remember the other name of the breed.  She was a good dog, but now she's getting REALLY old. She'll probably die one of these days and we will get a new one. We've had her for eight or nine years. Do any of you know how long a dog will live? Please comment and tell me.:)
Lady has had a limping back leg for the past three or four months, and she barley runs any more.





I'm sure gonna miss her though. She would break up cat fights, chase off raccoons, skunks and coyotes, and make sure the cats never got the bunny.


















Sorry this post was way shorter than my other ones, guys.











-Cowgirl...... You know my name. :D

Ranch Animals (Part 2)

I'm so sorry everyone! I didn't post anything on Saturday. We were so busy that day, and I didn't have time to post anything. On Monday Dad chopped the Internet cord with the Pay-loader. (on accident.) And the RTC guys didn't make it here 'till yesterday.

Another important animal on our ranch are the HORSES. Quarter Horses are my favorite breed. And I bet you already know this but they're my favorite animal. Between English an Western I'd for sure chose Western riding. Ah, and give me a cow to to chase. 


This is Wrangler in the picture below. I got him when I was five and he was just weaned. He's a registered quarter horse blue roan gelding. And his nickname is "Blue." But then, after a couple years dad decided it wasn't working out. He knew that for me training is the funnest part, and I was too little. (Six or seven). He used to be palomino as a colt, but he roaned out and turned  into a huge, fast cow horse that bucks. When I turned nine dad got me a chestnut filly. But when Wrangler is broke I can ride him any time I want. But we call him 'dad's horse'. 

Alex is a bay gelding. He's Lindy's horse, but she doesn't really ride him. She likes horses but other hobbies suit her just fine. Alex is a fast walker. REALLY fast walker. I bet he could win a World Cometition for the fastest walker. I've rode him a couple times. And, his lope is NOT smooth. It's just like riding the little blue rocking horse when I was one year old.

My thirt-teen year old cousin comes and rides with Riss and me. And she rides Alex. He's Greenbroke.











Cocoa is Larissa's chestnut quarter horse mare. And she loves chasing cows. At about fifteen hands high, she's about average height for a horse.






Journey is also Larissa's horse. She's the same age as my two year old filly. Rissa is planning on training her and then selling her. Notice the white mane down by her back. Very unusual.







Chester is Landon's horse. Boy, he has the smoothest, slowest trot ever. Landon will go and sit on him in the corral anytime he wants.  Chessy is his nickname.Awww, he's sooo cute with those shiny black eyes. :)



Me petting him.:) :)







Chorus: Cory is my two year old filly and my best friend. Dad and I are training her to be the best cutting horse in the WORLD.

She and Rissa's horse are full sisters. Their dam's (the mother of a horse or cow) name is Just A Major Sweetie and their sire's (the Father of a horse or cow) name is Dooley. Both the dam and the sire are Quarter Horses. I got to sit on Dooley once. :D We have a picture.


Below is me two years ago one of the first days I had her.




 Me working her in the round pen.





WOW. Talk about a beautiful horse!













 Rusty is my trusty steed when we go for rides. He's a sweetie. To people.
He is the highest in pecking order of all our horses. The brown mare on the left of him in the picture is his favorite mare. He will go crazy without that old girl. She's his favorite mare.





Nutbrown is our good old mare that we normally put little, little kids on and we can trust her to take care of them. We call her 'Lawson's horse'. She's part Welsh Pony, so she is a little bit smaller than our other horses.



Brego and Nala are from the same people we get our other horses from, but our friends bought them. after a couple years they didn't want them anymore, so they gave the horses to us. Now we found owners for them, but they stay here 'cause their real owners don't live in the country.








 Peaches is my champion barrel racing American Miniature Pony. I trained her myself. Oh, isn't she just adorable? But I'm getting too big for her, and she's sold. She'll be going to her new home later this year.




Ginger is the sweet, fat, old Miniature that hates to go faster than a trot. She's Lawson's main mount and he's been trying to get her to loose weight.

When  I was two and three, I would gallop around the round pen in the barn without any reins or anything to control her with. And someone would help me set up jumps. And when I was five to when I was eight I'd ride her all around our pastures.



Me at age three:













Lawson riding her at age six:




Pure love.:)

















Hope you liked it!









                                                      -Lexi