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Re: Cow Country

Post by RanchRoper » Sun Jun 03, 2018 1:25 pm

Another fine day in southwest Alberta. Out in the hills this morning.
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Re: Cow Country

Post by daytime dave » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:06 am

Beautiful photographs.
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Re: Cow Country

Post by RanchRoper » Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:01 pm

Pics from yesterday. Sorted a couple of hundred pairs, and then moved them and a 100 or so yearlings a few miles to fresh pasture. Great day, 65F and a light breeze. Badger was awesome, he's very quiet when sorting cows/calves. It is very slow work so as not to stir up the cows and stress them. Pair up the mama/baby combos and send them off to another holding area. Once we are sure we have matched sets, off we go down the trail. Work that remains unchanged since the late 1800's. Enjoy the pics!
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Post by PT7 » Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:25 pm

Another time I've enjoyed your work day pics, RR.
Keep 'em coming. Don't often get to see these cool 8-) reflections of the late 1800s!

Sure is so much different than what I saw at work each day for +25 years ---- a desktop "littered & cluttered" with papers, couple of staplers, pens & pencils & erasers, calculator, computer screen (sometimes flickering, sometimes not), the phone and its red button light always saying, "Hey, You! There are VMs here needing to be returned pronto!" Not least, there were those good 'ole college students (I guess maybe a little like cattle roaming the campus) knocking at my door needing help in reading their academic records. And the icing on the cake were the colleges I had that generously offered me those special little box cubbyholes with no windows. That required hanging a lot of outdoor pictures on the walls, just to be able to breathe easier and get through each day!!! :lol: What a difference, huh?!?

What I most like about your pics are those friendly, attentive ears as seen in your second pic (#165240). Gotta be a great companion throughout your work day. :) Thanks again!
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RanchRoper wrote:Pics from yesterday. Sorted a couple of hundred pairs, and then moved them and a 100 or so yearlings a few miles to fresh pasture. Great day, 65F and a light breeze. Badger was awesome, he's very quiet when sorting cows/calves. It is very slow work so as not to stir up the cows and stress them. Pair up the mama/baby combos and send them off to another holding area. Once we are sure we have matched sets, off we go down the trail. Work that remains unchanged since the late 1800's. Enjoy the pics!
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Re: Cow Country

Post by RanchRoper » Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:32 pm

Glad you enjoyed them. Badger has all the brains and does all the work. I'm just there to make sure he gets in the right trailer at days end. :)
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Re: Cow Country

Post by JEBar » Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:50 pm

just curious .... how does he know which cow goes with which calf :?
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Re: Cow Country

Post by RanchRoper » Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:07 pm

I don't ask him these questions. He'd lose all faith in me. He already gives me a dirty look if the wind messes with my loop and the rope hits him in the head. I'm on thin ice.
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Re: Cow Country

Post by Mags » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:20 pm

Alberta looks like beautiful country. Nice cows too.
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Re: Cow Country

Post by RanchRoper » Wed Jun 06, 2018 9:12 pm

Thank you, Alberta still has a lot of wilderness & some open prairie but as with any place, it is slowly filling up with people. My wife and I often remark how people from cities move out to open, sparsely populated areas and then light up their property with a big yard light. There goes your beautiful night sky. Our place is so dark at night you'd never know it's there and we like it that way.

The mountains in the distance in the first 2 pics & bottom left are Waterton Park and Glacier Park on the Montana side. A huge section of Waterton was burned out last year in the fires. The mountains in the other pics are the Livingstone Range.

The bottom left pic has a telephone pole sticking up, and the distant mountain right behind it is Chief Mtn.
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Re: Cow Country

Post by Mags » Wed Jun 06, 2018 10:24 pm

I feel for you. When we moved to our place in 1995 we had dark sky with some light pollution. Was really dark at night around the property without the moon. Now can hardly see the stars at night. When there are clouds in the sky the reflected light from the bottom of the clouds makes it easy to get around in the semi dark. Used to be really quiet too. Now a lot of distant road noise. Last time I saw a really dark sky was in eastern Oregon near Mistered's area.

Thanks for the locale information. So that is what is on the other side of the mountains from Glacier Nat'l Park. We went to the park and surrounding remote areas in Sept 2016. I didn't want to leave, but snow storms had already started. Had to wait a couple days for the road to be cleared on the 'Road to the Sun.'
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