News
from the Lake Ranch (last news: 01-05-2010)
Pictures
say more than thousand words, therefore the news are brought as photographs.
Januar
2010: After a VERY White Christmas (4 feet of snow in two days) the ranch
is buried under snow. Cowboy Tye is pushing snow around to feed the cows
and horses - they are doing great with plenty of hay. There is nothing
to do at the ranch but feed the animals everyday - a chore that takes a
few hours each day. When calving season starts in March/April the cowboys
and ranchers will be out and about for 14 to 16 hours each day.
- Picture series of Mac and
his thoughts of sheep: Mac
encounters Sheep
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January 2010 - View
on the ranch coming down the last hill - the lake is buried under snow
and ice. |
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January 2010 - Also
the lodge is snowed in. |
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January 2010 - Most
horses are in a big pasture away from the ranch where Tye brings them hay
with the tractor. These are the riding horses for the winter and some two-year
olds which get some extra feed each day. |
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December 2009 - I
had to go up to the ranch to pick up a horse. Since the road was too bad
I parked my trailer on the bottom of the hill and rode up to the ranch.
Some friends joined me on this beautiful sunny day. |
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December 2009 - My
neighbor Nick with ranchhand Tanja in front of the butte. |
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December 2009 - I
wanted to borrow a weanling colt from the Lake Ranch to keep company for
a weanling colt I have at home. But the weanlings weren't around close
enough so I opted for a scrawny little 2year old Cremello gelding instead.
He'll do ... :) |
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| November 2009 - Curious
broodmares and some pretty paint horses. |
November 2009 - Finally:
a real tourist pictures of me (right) with Devils Tower in the background. |
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| November 2009 - horse
drive |
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| November 2009 - The
riding horses for the winter on a pasture close to the ranch |
November 2009 - The
bigger part of the horse herd are in a bigger pasture farer away on vacation
- lucky them! |
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| November 2009 - preg-check-day:
Chris with Scrupino moving cows down the aile |
November 2009 - preg-check-day:
move cows to the corrals, Luca with Seabiscuit. |
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| November 2009 - preg-check-day:
it's getting late ... |
November 2009 - preg-check-day:
and later ... |
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| November 2009 - preg-check-day:
nice sunset |
November 2009 - preg-check-day:
hide and seek in the dark |
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| November 2009 - Mac
drives horses |
November 2009 - Muledeer
buck |
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| November 2009 - lonesome
cowboy - Luca checks cows |
November 2009 - and
here is Chris - no cowboy hat, of course ... ;-) |
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| October 2009 - Finally:
our second branding season at a neighbors ranch starts |
October 2009
- Ranchhelp Jabel wrestles them all - no calf is too big for her! |
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| October 2009 - Luca
and a neighbor cowboy rope the calves |
October 2009 - big
skys! |
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| October 2009 - one
more |
October 2009 - Luca
with his gray Martin |
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| October 2009 - Too
big of a load for the ranch pickup or too much ice? |
October 2009 - riding
in the snow :) |
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| August 2009 - our
2year old fillies and a three year old orphan gelding. |
August 2009 - the
2year old studs |
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| September 2009 -
Freedom Hygro just before he visits the vet and loses his manhood - sorry. |
September 2009 -
Also Plenty Sanana Pep will not be used as a breeding stud but become a
ranch gelding. |
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| September 2009 -
broodmare band for sale |
September 2009 -
he is for sale too |
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| September 2009 -
Cowboy Tye coming down the hill |
October 2009 - horse
drive (Foto courtesy from Eva, Yvonne & Katrin) |
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| September 2009 -
Cattle Drive |
September 2009 -
another Cattle Drive |
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| June 2009 - Picnic
in Oshoto: the cowboys arrive. |
June 2009 - ...hungry
and even more thirsty! |
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| June 2009 - Sly and
Dice having a break |
June 2009 - Luca
has something to laugh about - maybe about his horse Seabiscuit that makes
a pretty bad picture here? |
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| June 2009 - Hulett
Rodeo: also a pick-up-horse has to do some business |
June 2009 - Hulett
Rodeo: ride'm, Cowboy! |
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| June 2009 - Hulett
Rodeo: Bucking horses in their pen before he action. |
June 2009 - Hulett
Rodeo: ... and after the action. |
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| June 2009 - Tye on
the Palomino with no name |
June 2009 - getting
ready to rope some calves |
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| June 2009 - lots
of active help |
June 2009 - ... and
lots of spectators |
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| June 2009 - Tye on
his Palomino with the butte in the background. A picture someone can not
get enough of (talking about the butte) |
June 2009 - Sly rather
watches |
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| June 2009 - Dice
on the porch - ot his fault, a guest lured him up the stairs with some
treats. |
June 2009 - Luca
doesn't think that this is funny and sends Dice off the porch. |
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| May 2009 -
Horses in the South Field |
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| May 2009 - Horses
in the South Field |
May 2009 - A neighbor's
cowboy and our cowboy Tye are having fun |
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| May 2009 - Picnic
in Oshoto where the ranch runs 90 heifers which need to be checked once
in a while. It's a long ride over there but there is always some good food
waiting underneath the trees. |
May 2009 - The view
from the picnic spot - windbrake, windmill, prairie and, of course, cattle. |
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| March 2009 - Tye
and Spike get ready to go check the cows. |
May 2009 - still
checking ... ;-) Time flies by when you're having fun! |
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| March 2009 - A little
bit snow is no reason to close school. |
March 2009 - Dice,
Mac and Quick on bacation - the lucky ones! |
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| Februar 10, 2009
- This is "Gus", Cowboy Tye's new Border Collie - Blue Heeler-Mix, appr.
10 weeks old. |
February 10, 2009
- "Hi Pardner - seen some dead deer?"
Bald Eagles and Golden Eagles
are a common sight, especially in the real cold witner month of January
and February. |
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| February 10, 2009 - A
view over the lake - hidden underneath snow and ice. |
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| February 6, 2009 -
A visit at the Lake Ranch with winter panorama - this makes you look forward
to the beginning of the season! |
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| February 6, 2009
- Dirty but healthy - the yearlings of the Lake Ranch. |
February 6, 2009
- Tyes horses and a some older or younger horses get some extra care. |
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| February 3, 2009 -
Impressions of the Ranch Rodeo in Rapid City at the Black Hills Stock Show
- here: Trailer Relay |
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| January 26, 2009 - Not
a rainbow but a snowbow. |
Even the deer are impressed
:) |
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| December 1, 2008 - Last
ride for this year. The horses are barely used in the winter. the cows
spend their time in a pasture where they are fed with hay while the horses
are free to roam the ranch. |
Chilly with thick clothing
it is hard to imagine that there were days with 90 degree and a swim in
the lake ... |
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| December 1, 2008 - Chris
and Tye sort cows ad mark down the ear tag numbers. |
Some cows lost their eartags
and Tye re-tags them. |
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| November 25, 2008 - Some
of Frosty's mares on pasture. |
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| November 25, 2008 - Chris
checking on the mares. |
This wide open space ....
Bianca and Chris on theri way to check the cows. |
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| November 3, 2008 - Luca
riding his young Buckskin (who will become a grey) checking cows. |
November 3, 2008 -
Luca and Chris check if the cows have enough minerals left in their lick
barrels. |
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| Big Skys - the Lake
Ranch in late fall. |
October 08 - some
of Frosty's mares on their winter pasture. |
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| October 2008 - Christina
with Scrupino hiding behind a dead tree. |
Ocober 2008 - Christina
and Luca visit me in the kitchen. No glass of wine on the counter - Chris
and me must have hidden them from Luca. He thinks we get drunk every night
in the kitchen. *geee* from one glass of wine? Fat chance! :-) |
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| October 13, 2008
- pregnancy check for the cows at the Lake Ranch after the first snow this
season. |
Luca and Tye try to sort
a "fence jumper" of the other cows. We had quite a few cows with a bad
attitude this day. |
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| September 22, 2008
- Branding at a neighbor who calves his cows in August and September. |
Tye
with his grey horse roping. |
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| and again - since it looks
so cool ;-) |
well deserved
break |
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| Lunch is served picknick
style with fried chicken, sandwiches, zucchini bread, fresh fruits and
pound cake - tastes double as good after the hard work. |
Another bnch
of calves is waiting to be branded - better use this
break to rest
up! |
| August 9, 2008 -
just enjoying the landscape. Pictures can not catch this wide open country! |
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| August 7, 2008 -
the town of Hulett invites to their second annual event "Ride a Horse feed
a Cowboy". |
Every rider who enters town
on horseback is treatet to a free dinner. Hamburger, Chips and Baked Beans,
of course :-) |
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| Juni 27, 2008 - Branding
in the Roping Arena at the ranch. |
Max roping calves in the
round pen |
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May 2008 - Even though
we are used to some strange weather in Wyoming - this late snow was also
for us surprising. However, we used the couple of days with snowmobiling
and rides in the snow. |
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30. April 30, 2008 Branding
at the Lake Ranch. We have several brandings in Mai/June and again September/October.
Here Max on his bay horse
"Chili" roping a calf. |
29. April 29, 2008
- This year I brought two horses to the Lake Ranch. here are Dice (the
first black and white paint) and Foxy (the sorrel paint) followed bei Lake
Ranch horse "Black'n'White" |
April 2008
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Middle of April - the season
has just startet. The horses are all over the ranch and Here is Luca sorting
some of them off. It will take a few days until we have the breeding stock
and work horses sorted! |
February 2008
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Riding through the snow.
Rick on Foxy and Joelle on Dice on their way to vistit Cowboy Max at the
Ranch.
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February 2008
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We are greated from Kathie.
Max' dog, who is happy for our company.
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February 2008
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.... and find a few horses
in the corral. Max doesn't seem to be home today.
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| February
2008
Therefore we left
him a buddy for company :-) |
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October 2007
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Late brandings are going
on since one of our neighbors is a fall calver. We brand calves in Mai/June
and again in September/October.
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September 22,
2007
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No comment.
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August 09, 2007
Shippingday at the Lake
Ranch. 430 yearling heifers spend the summer at the ranch before they are
shipped to feedlots in Colorado.
April 25, 2007
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Sometimes the guests have
weird tasks to fullfill. ;-)) |
April 20, 2007
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Max working a horse in the
roundpen. |
April 18, 2007
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The Little Missouri Butte.
In a few weeks this view will be completed with dozens of baby calves. |
April 18, 2007
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Lake Ranch calf #3. The
heifers are almost done with calving, six weeks earlier than the older
cows. They just started to drop their babies and will be calving until
end of May. |
April 5, 2007
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Well - they are sure cute,
these baby calves. But if there are a hundered or twohundred of them and
you need to go check them in knee deep snow and mud it takes quite some
away from their cuteness ... ;-)
But we can not complain
- most part of the calving season was very mild weather, sun and temperatures
up to 70 degrees - this is great spring weather for Wyoming! |
April
2007: Looks like we have some Spring coming.
The
cows are calving, and the first guests will show up April 19. This will
end the long and lonesome winter for Max, who took care of the ranch, cows,
and horses since the rancher left last November. Some people are smart
enough to escape the hard Wyoming winters ... ;-))
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March 30, 2007
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We had some pretty deep
snow - too deep for me to visit the Lake Ranch since the roads get pretty
bad, so I took a picture of my horses - should look pretty much the same
than on the Ranch. Only difference is 5 horses on my place and more than
a 100 at the Lake Ranch ... ;-) |
June 8, 2006
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The new mare band - another
30 mares add on to the already existing horse herd on the ranch. I'm not
sure what the actual count is - more than a 100, that's a given. And at
least 30 oft them will have foals next spring - something to look forward
to! |
June 6, 2006
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Cutting Clinic at the Lake
Ranch. A trainer from Nebraska came with three great cutting horses and
tried to teach us bloody cowboys something. |
May 21,
2006
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My Paint "Dice" makes friend
with an abandoned calf. The calf was so lonesome, he was very willing to
accept my horse as his new mom. Unfortunately Dice lacks on a good source
of milk so we came back later with a pickup to bring the calf to the ranch
and bottle feed it. |
May 18, 2006
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Wide open country. Cowboys
on their way through the so called "Winter Pasture", a place not too far
away from the ranch buildings where the cows usually get their calves. |
May 7, 2006
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Coming home to the Ranch
- the buildings are nestled in a little valley beside one of the very few
natural lakes in the Black Hills. |
April 13, 2006
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I think I took a hundred
pictures from this place with this beautiful view over a valley to Devils
Tower. You have to see this yourself, though - this wide open country can
not be captured by a camera.
My horse Foxy doesn't seem
to be as impressed as I was, though ;-) |
April 13, 2006
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The horses run wild in huge
pastures until the season begins end of April. |
October 19, 2005
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The evening before shipping
day - rounding up the calves for the sale.
Larry, a friend from Rapid
City, on the great paint gelding "Midnight Bullet", and Rancher Luca on
his mare "Gracie". |
September 5th,
2005
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The brood mares of the Lake
Ranch coming down to the lake for a drink and bath. |
June 8th, 2005
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Branding day on the Lake
Ranch. The crew, guests and cowboys, are getting their horses ready for
the round up of the cattle. |
June 17th
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Branding on the Lake Ranch.
Rancher Luca with his gelding "Amigo" roping a calf. |
May 22nd, 2005
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Landcape - you can not get
enough of it! The mountain is the highest one of the four "Little Missouri
Buttes". |
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