No more Sundays

Yes, it has been a while, but nevertheless I am back with more adventurous tales from the wild, wild west. Well, more like normal normalness from eastern Kansas, but that's not quite as exciting is it?

Anywho, it has been a long three weeks. We did our last branding on Saturday and moved some cattle around and got them to breeding pastures Monday. Kirk and I spent yesterday and probably the next couple of days rebuilding a fence that a tornado remodeled a month of so ago. I've heard on the news that it was only an F0 or maybe an F1. I can't imagine the power of an F5.

The final move of the chess match will be the bulls going out on Thursday. We put four out with our heifers last week after we A.I.'d them. Artificial Insemenation is the reason this has been a long few weeks. I have to say that we have much improved from last year. We got a new chute with a palpation door. Previously we used what you call a dark box. It's basically just a cage with a tarp over it. We would run them in and Shorty would shove a pipe behind them to hold them. We did 300 heifers last year this way and I don't know how we did it. Most of the time they wouldn't go all the way in on their own so we would have to jump in behind them and shove them forward so the pipe could get behind their legs. As you can imagine you were kicked and smashed quite a bit and them you'd have to try and A.I. as they jumped around. Using a chute was so nice. Their was no jumping around. The worst that happend was a tail in your face or getting caught in your gun.

Soon all the spring work will be done. The bulls will be out. The culls will be sold and hay season will begin. Before I know it Fall will be here and I'll be choring everyday, so right now I'll just be thankful that I dont' have to work Sundays.