Round ‘Em Up!

So we are out of Wyoming we're gonna round up all of our heifers we've got them split into three different pastures. We're gonna try and get all of them today. It's Tuesday we're gonna preg check our heifers on Thursday. So one of these pastures is about 800 acres. We're gonna ride it right now. My dad's gonna take the four-wheeler and just kind of go way to the far end and way out and about to see if they're way out there. That way if there are we don't have to do a ton of riding because we'll get our share of riding in getting all these groups. And then I'm just gonna go down to the water tank and see what's down there. More than likely they're down there at the water. So hopefully you can find them go get the other groups just get on with the day. But I tell you what I'm looking forward to spending some time in the saddle and not in a tractor. I don't hate tractor time, but saddle time is a lot better. Trump, you've gotten plump. Plump Trump. I guess he takes after his namesake. Alright buddy. Dirk, we're gonna leave you behind for a little bit. Let's go for a ride. The heifers we're looking for are out here somewhere. Well I see a couple heifers up ahead in the trees. But I need to apologize for last week. I didn't have many videos coming out. Maybe some of you were wondering why. And I didn't say anything I should have. But I actually went to a ranching for profits for young adults little workshop. Took about all week. Put on by ranch management consultants and the South Dakota Grasslands Coalition. So super interesting. Mostly talked about grassland management and just some economics of ranching and how to increase profit and some stuff like that. So super interesting. If you guys are looking for some continuing education, if you're ranchers, I would highly recommend the ranch for profits program and ranch management consultants. Everything they do. So other good news. We got a bunch of heifers down by the water. It looks like should be most of them if not all of them. So I'm gonna shoot my data text and let him know I've got most of them down here or all of them down here. And I'll probably start heading them out. I'll get a count at the gate up here. Just make sure I've got every one of them. Come on girls. Hey come on. Nice and easy. Go on. There we go. I didn't get a count before. Yeah I'd be pretty close wouldn't it? 95. What's that? There could be a couple in here already unless these are elk beds. What's that? Okay that's what I was wondering. Oh you did? There's kind of a top wire down. There's a couple in here. The ones we got. Hopefully that's pretty close. Come on girls. Let's go. Hey. Hey get out of there. Come on. Come on. Come on. You guys got yourself in this mess and get yourself out. Come on. Find a way. Go on. You can do it. Come on. There you go. Out of the canyon. Come on. Easy bud. Come on girls. Nice and easy. Come on. Come on you guys. You can do it. I know it's scary. Come on. Come on girls. Come on. So we took this group of heifers through two different gates from the pasture they were in. We're gonna go through another couple gates into the next pasture where there's some heifers in and hopefully we can pick up that group of heifers down to the corrals and just bring them all down to the corrals and leave them in a little pasture around the corrals for tomorrow and Thursday. So then we can come out right away Thursday morning round them up, get them in the corrals, get to preg checking right away so we don't have to come out and do this on Thursday. It would just be quite a crunch on time. So that's the idea and the plan we have in theory. Hopefully it'll work. It's usually a lot worse. So we'll see. These heifers, it's hot, middle of the day. They aren't gonna want to move much longer. So we'll see how it goes. And then the third group that we were gonna get in were actually the ones that were out in the neighbors that I already got in in the last video. So I put them already into the pasture right around the corrals. We won't have to worry about them. They're already where they should be. We just got to get these two big Found a little drink halfway. Drink up girls. My dad went back to look for a couple heifers that were short in that last group. He went back to the pasture we took him out of to see if he could find them quick. I took that group of heifers into the next pasture where the other group of heifers is. I know this is kind of confusing. And I just let them head down to some water down by the corrals and the next little pasture around the corrals. And I'm just looking for the other group that's supposed to be in here. I'm checking some little water. Some areas they can get a drink. I don't see them here. So we go look at the next spot. But they'll probably be around water this time of day. So I think that's my best bet of finding them. Let's go into the water sources. Way off in the distance you can see the group that I put in the pasture around the corrals yesterday. The group we were just chasing is down here waiting for me at the gate. Just really nice of them. I haven't found the other group yet. Once I push these through the gate I'll go look for them a little more. But yeah this is the pasture they're going in just overnight. So we prank check them and we'll turn them and back out. Trail them up to some other pastures and be good. Thank you girls for waiting. Check out those big thunderheads forming to the south. Pretty cool. I always liked watching storms roll in. I found the last group of heifers. Just kind of what I thought. They were down here by the creek. Not very far from the next pasture where we're putting them all. We'll get these buggers in and see what my dad finds. Come on girls. Where are you going sassy? Find any more routine? Okay I got six deep from the pond. And those ones that were out must have been from in there. I found where the fence was going. Yeah yeah. So I think the ones in the canyon are still there. I think they're out. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't go up there. No. Not really. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So we're short a few. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll see if I can find them. I looked around quite a bit. I went and picked up the double alley so we can have it for tomorrow morning so we don't have to go get it tomorrow. We actually rent this from the people that are gonna come out and break check for us. We've been renting it for a few years. We really like it. So I'm gonna get that all set up. Get a bud box set up and we should be ready to go for the morning. I set up a little bud box system which is inspired by Bud Williams who's done a lot of work on stockmanship and just stress-free handling of cattle. It seems to work okay on our heifers. On the cows it works really good because they're kind of gotten used to it but for the heifers it's kind of a learning experience this first first go around. But the idea is we'll bring them down the alley just a few, five or six, pop them into this bud box and then a guy can kind of work around and just apply pressure to the cows and they should go into the alley on their own with not too much pressure in a pretty low stress way. But like I said with heifers they're kind of a pain in the butt so and it's a learning experience so it doesn't work super smoothly but with the cows you just open the gate let them in stay on that corner and they walk right in so it's kind of our way to introduce them to it and to get them used to you know being worked by people because they really haven't gotten worked a lot yet. We're all set ready to work some heifers. Come here buddy show everybody how you can crawl. Come here. No he's not gonna do it. Silas is going to be quite the crawler. He started crawling all over the place. Come on buddy. Come on. What is that? You can do it. Look at you big boy. Good job. You want to keep going? Keep going. Keep going. This is good practice. Wow buddy. Whoa that's slippery. Okay come here. That's hard. Good job pups. Thank you guys for coming along today. Really appreciate it. We got seven heifers left to find. We actually know where they are. They're right in the neighbors right next to the right next to the pasture that we're putting all these heifers in around the corral. So we're gonna run out get them in the morning get the heifers rounded up and get to work prey checking. So thank you guys for coming along. Really do appreciate it. Hope you're all doing well. We'll see you in the next one.