4R Ranch

I did manage another ride on Otoelene. Just in the barn again.  But I also cantered more. I can feel it in my back, not painful just stiff a...

Someone asked me a couple of days ago if I still rode. I gave my usual answer, I ride enough to say I ride. But I realized that it had been ...

We had a calf that had not been doing well for a couple of days.  This morning, we spent over and hour in the rain looking for it, then anot...

 I left the beach yesterday morning. Most people don’t seem to make it out before 11. So from 6 am until 10 I can be pretty alone.  There we...

Draper's colt has been very popular.  They are spending more time outside.  After over 2 months in the barn, Draper is glad to be out on...

The video speaks for itself.   I guess the transfusion bought enough time for the calf’s bone marrow to catch up on making red blood cells a...

Yesterday Mike helped us with some cattle here. Some were vaccinate, some dewormed, some both and one dehorned.  It was nice having the extr...

The weather was nice enough and I had some time so I decided to ride Hugo for a little bit yesterday.   You can see that Hugo was not being ...

This morning Joe wanted to get a group of cattle up to sort out the bred heifers and fall calving cows.  There hasn’t been anything in the b...

Well, with temperatures staying from 0-20 and wind chills in the negative numbers, the 3 inches of packed snow and sleet has turned into sol...

You read that right.  I rode three times this week.  The weather is suppose to take a turn for the worse and I wanted to take advantage of a...

I gave Sadie and Allie the saddle for Christmas.   "It's a saddle Mimi, it's a saddle.  For what?"  Allie is so cute.  For...

Allie woke up this morning saying her head hurt. She had a fever of 100.5.   After much discussion and negotiation, we decided that I would ...

"When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter... And then, in a twinkling, I heard...