MONTHLY CACHE VALLEY HORSE SALES

Attention: We are holding our 1st monthly horse sale MAY 4th, 2013 @ the Smithfield Livestock Auction. Accepting Using and Loose horses. We have a nice working arena to preview the Using horses and we also have cattle available to work as well. Preview will start at 10:00 am, Tack and Horses start selling at 11:00 am. This is the first of several monthly horse sales, held through out the summer. They will consistently be the 1st Saturday of each month (May, June, August, September, October), same time, same place. To reserve your lot, get an entry form, or for more information go to www.smithfieldlivestock.com . You can also contact Lane D. Parker @ 435-563-3259 or 435-752-7701. We will be excepting entries till sale day.

" FEEDING "

The snow this winter has been great. We have been able to feed most of this winter with the bobsled. Jared and the kids have lots of fun with the teams. Sometimes Jared is unable to feed and the kids have to do it all. The boys are old enough that they can catch, harness and feed all by themselves. If you look close at the pictures you can tell that they also like to have fun while they do it, they each take turns riding in the sled behind the wagon, they get to do a little sledding while feeding, "kill two birds with one stone". Why Not??

The Newell Moss Horse Sale

We got the opportunity to do a horse sale for Newell Moss last month, in Salina, Utah. He had a great turn out and some really nice looking and well bred horses for sale. This was Newell's first herd sale and he was selling some Champion Reining, Cutting and Working Cowhorse bloodline mares, bred mares, weanlings, yearlings and stallions. Newell has been an AQHA production breeder for 30+ years. We were privileged to be part of this sale and to be able to associate with many AQHA breeders/producers like Newell. Thank you Newell, for letting us serve you. Here are a few pictures of the big day.

 

SPRING

Like most places, Spring is hitting the Logan River Ranch head on.  The grass is growing, winter clean up has begun, fencing projects are in full force and most importantly of all, BABIES are arriving.  First we had baby lambs (which Lane & Jared don't count as part of LRR, just Amy's project), then calves and now baby foals.  They are all so cute and the ranch is full of excitement.  We are still calving a few heifers and about 8 more horses, but we are pretty close to the end.

The boys have been out working to help clean up after winter.  Waylon loves to move manure, I know weird, but he has moved a lot of manure this spring already.  Ty and Virgil harrow every chance they get, they love driving the teams and seeing the way the pastures look after they harrow it, and how well the grass grows back after the harrowing is done. 

The picture makes it hard to see, but this is Virgil driving Terr and Thor a team that JP has been working with all winter for a friend of ours.

The mare in the middle is being broke to drive.  Hanger is a little filly that Ty is breaking.  She rides really well and now after a few days behind her under harness, she is going to be a nice little driving mare as well.    Hanger is 3 years old and is 1/2 Draft 1/2 QH filly.  She has been a good project for Ty.

Her is Waylon hard at work.  Even though he is pretty young, he is pretty darn handy with the skid sterr.

First Calf Heifers

At the first of March, the herd of first calf heifers we purchased in January, from Nevada started calving.  The weather has been great for calving but as always with first time heifers, you have to watch them like a hawk.  Although they are nice calves the birth weights are a little on the larger side and we are having to assist a lot of the heifers.  Lane and Jared are taking turns on the night shift and everyone is on call during the days.  Last Monday the kids were out of school and Shadie long with grandpa and Jared got to help run in a few pairs and a heifer that was in labor and needed some help.  Her horse Brownie was a little fresh from the winter months but she did just fine.  The family all got to watch this calf be pulled and Ty is becoming quite the little vet.  He really enjoys this process and loves to help.  Ty took the night watch with Grandpa one night last week and likes learning what to look for.  One time when me and Waylon were out making the rounds, even Waylon understood what to look for when the heifers where getting close.  We love our lifestyle and that we get to work so close with our family. 

Lane, Jared & Shadie

All the kids watching pull a calf

   

The after picture: nice, healthy heifer calf.

The herd of Heifers

"Freeze Branding New Herd"

We purchased a small herd of first calf heifers, at the first of January.  When we got them home we went right to Freeze branding them and getting them turned out on the bird refuge.  It has been such a mild winter for us here in Utah, which is good and bad, but we hope spring comes when it is supposed to.  As usual the whole family helped out.  The kids where still on Christmas brake and they where happy to be able to work the new cattle when they got here.  Overall very excited about the new additions to our cow/calf herd.

 

Feeding Protein at the BIRD REFUGE

Most of the cattle have been over at the Bird Refuge in Perry, since October.  A couple times a week we take over a load of protein pellets for the cows.  The girls and I went over to help Jared put them out a couple of times last week, and finally got a few pictures.  The cattle look really good and the calves look even better.  Very excited about the calf crop that is coming up. 

Final Shipment for 2011 to CNB

 On Tuesday we shipped our last load of yearlings to CNB for the 2011 year.  We are excited about this load of 1/2 Irish Black calves, they look really good.  Lane, Jared and the boys went and gathered, sorted and had them shipped by noon on Tuesday.  It went really smooth and all the cattle fit well on this load for the program. Thanks CNB and all who we are associated with there, this is a great program and great people to be working with.

  

Fall Auburn All Western Horse Sale

In November we had our Auburn All Western, All Breed Horse Sale in Auburn, CA.  The weather was pretty chilly.  We had to chain up coming over Donner but once we got to Auburn, it was pretty dry.  This sale we had 75+ horses and really overall, we had a good sale.  "Good horses brought good money".  We only had a few go out from our ranch, but what we did take, sold well and they all have new homes.  Virgil is pictured with a chestnut gelding named Gus, V worked with this young horse a lot and really hated to sell him, but he needs a little better rope horse for the competitions.  The kids also have been working on this one little pony named Pepper, she also had a filly on her side, Brownie.  They sold the pair at Auburn and it was quite the show.  Virgil, Waylon and Shadie spent more time with this pony then they did at home.  Pepper & Brownie were a big hit, along with many of the other consigned horses in the sale.  Her are just a few pictures of the day. Thanks to all the consignors and buyers that help make our sale a success. 

 

BRANDING IN CLIFTON

A few weeks ago we branded in Clifton Id.  It was a great day and the weather was perfect.  The cattle looked good and every ones horses performed well.  We were able to do it before school started so the kids were able to go up and help, even Shadie roped a few.  This year we are Freeze Branding our cattle, hoping it will help keep the Cattle Rustlers at bay, to have a more prominent brand might help!!  Here are some pictures of the day!!

LOGAN RIVER RANCH TOUR

This summer we had an amazing privilege, we got to host a ranch tour at our place, where in our opinion we had some of the best and finest people/ranchers/friends come and stay a few days with us.  It ran Wend-Saturday and we had a blast getting to know their families, spending time getting help on our ranches and with our cattle, and just being together.  We have so much fun together and are just really close.  We were so sorry that Chet and Tara were unable to attend, Chet had back problems the day before they were to leave and felt he could not make the trip.  We missed you and are excited to see you in November.  We meet as a group 3 times a year to give advice about each of our ranches, and we look forward to that time we get to spend with these great people.  Here are just a few highlights of the weekend.







~Our youngest girl had to have stitches the last night, she took a header and hit a rock.  Good thing Aunt Sarah is a Nurse Practictioner and had the skills to fix her right up.  She does this quite often for us, we swap her eggs and things like that. haha  Thanks Aunt Sarah.  We really appreciate it.
~Overall the weekend went wonderful and we had a great time and we really learned a lot about our own ranch.  Thanks to RMC and the EL Program for bring us together, to learn, become successful and to build friendships.