Sorting

Today was a day full of sorting.

After we finished morning chores Tina and Jeff headed out to fix some fence and Merle and I hopped on four wheelers again and went out to sort some steers that were in the neighbors pasture. In the process of going there we came across a heifer that we had pushed into a close by pasture and decided to move her in closer to the corrals. So, we stopped quick and did that and then headed out to Dick's to sort steers. We got that done with little to no problems, there were just seven or eight of them. As we were headed back out we decided to stop in our pasture and sort out all of the yearling heifers of the neighbors that had been haning around...and there were wayyy more than we thought. After lots of looking and driving many miles we sorted off 16 total and put them back into their pasture! This took quite a bit of time, but it was nice to get done, and we really didn't have many problems. When we got that done we headed back towards home and decided to try to find a bull that we saw the other day in a different neighbors pasture that looked like Merle's. While we were still looking for him we ran across the neighbors hired prairie dog poisoner...not a fun job, but he was gettin' it done. We still hadn't seen the bull when Merle got a call from another neighbor's hired hand saying that we had heifers mixed in with their cows! Really!? We spent all morning sorting! So...we ran back home without ever seeing the bull and saddled up because this heifer pasture has too steep of creek banks for four wheelers. By the time we saddled up and headed out it was past noon so we stopped by the H and grabbed cheesburgers to go- and off we went. We met Beau (the guy who called) at a let down in the fenceline and started pushing them back to where they belonged. This didn't take much time and went fairly well; we decided to follow them to the well once they were all on the right side of the fence (just to make sure they stay in). This is what took most of the time, but we got that done, and went back home. Before we unsaddled we went and rounded that first heifer from this morning up and put her in the corral to watch- she's spayed and just looks sick- we'll see. Once we got her in the rest of the day was odds and ends. We put in my air conditioner, unhooked the trailer, moved some salt blocks around and did evening chores. Nothing was too difficult and speaking of which I still need to go and lock the chickens up, so I should probably go!

Fire classes went well again tonight- I think it's really interesting and useful information- looking forward to tomorrows :)