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-Welcome to the Sleep Ranch! We are located in the Northern Black Hills on the South Dakota/ Wyoming border where our ancestors settled and started ranching in 1883.
I (Carson) work alongside my parents, Jeff and Jodi, our ranch hand, Jaques, my wife, Damaris who also works as a nurse in town, and our son Silas! We have friends and family who come along very frequently as well!
We run a cow/calf operation where we summer our cattle on the Black Hills National Forest and winter them in the foothills of the Black Hills. We also have a backgrounding feedlot, and grow alfalfa and grass hay.
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Sleep Ranch
P.O. Box 756
Spearfish, SD
57783
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come on Cavs come on cows let's
go welcome back folks another beautiful
spring day we're going to get some more
cows out onto some spring pasture be
done feeding
them after this we'll just have two
little groups that we got to get out but
this is the biggest group by far couple
hundred
head it's going to be really nice to
have them out grazing and they're ready
for it
too come on
come
on we'll have these cows out on our
spring pasture for about a month then
we'll take him up to the for service
permits up in the Black Hills usually
around the first week first two weeks of
June um we already had our meetings with
the for service it's going to be the
same dates as it us usually is so the
first two weeks in June uh but the hills
are way behind on moisture this year I
think last time we talked with the for
service it was at 50% of the moisture it
usually gets for you know the time of
the year we're at so 50% behind on
moisture up there which means there'll
probably be less grass less water
hopefully we'll get some more the spring
some more rains some nice May rains up
there but down here I don't know how
we're sitting on moisture but
we didn't get near as much snow as we
usually do we're kind of hoping we get
some of those nice spring rains as
well come on Cav down to the gate come
on hey hey turn around turn
around turn
around hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
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come
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on come on Cavs get down
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hey hey hey hey come on turn
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around Cavs turn around
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around hey he he come on cabes
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he how many grandkids can you fit in
here a lot how many are there four four
and one more couple more yeah two more
yeah
yeah what's the problem paisy the cow s
through the G and now they do the game
on somebody's El property they are
aren't they we're going to have to go
get them out of their property aren't
weot
yeah there must not be a fence there
huh
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no pper having
fun oh you
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come
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on gav's almost there come on
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you come on C
he hey hey hey
hey good job
e well we got him to the pasture where
we're going to keep B going to push all
of them into that corner and hold them
let them get paired up let the cows find
their
babies you know even in the last video
we let him get paired up and we had to
go back there was five calvs that ran
back to the pasture they were in
before and you can see all the Cals are
running along the fence they want to go
find their mom so we get the cows up
there in the corner and hopefully they
can find each
other come on
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come
on go on over
there go find your baby go find your
babies find your babies come
on find your
babies she found hers
good job
Mama go some okay I think they'll calm
down we'll come back P
okay cows just want to graze which makes
it
hard your stomachs are full yeah they
are but they're sing down so they laying
down relax which is all good helps
y yeah hopefully
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not hey baby hi what's for
lunch well I haven't started lunch but I
figured we could just throw in a couple
of those Factor meals and make it easy
okay sounds good yeah boys were kind of
keeping me busy yeah I can imagine what
do we have
today I just picked out a couple
some dried tomato
chicken and cheesy ground beef and
cabbage with chili garlic green beans
and red bell peppers will that work yeah
that sounds great which one are you
going to have um probably chicken okay
sounds good I'll eat this other one
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life is super hectic with two boys so
just being able to pull these out and um
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in the microwave we don't have a
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to
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orders how is it tastes really good it's
good mhm mine's good too really good mhm
good well we're going to eat these up
then we going to get back to work well
it has turned into kind of a cold wet
miserable day it's windy super windy I
think there's like 50 mph G 60 MPH gust
but got to fix some fence we got a lot
of fix fence to fix on some of our
spring pasture we''ll been moving our
cows around quite a bit um so we got a
lot of pastures to go around so I just
came up here to start on one of these
the grass looks really good and we found
a little deer shed sitting here kind of
a nice nice little
shed so we'll we'll add that to the
collection and keep an eye out if
there's any more up here but the main
thing we're looking at is the Pence not
deer antlers but yeah we better get to
work and try not to get too cold out
here the grass up here honestly looks
really good there's a lot of new growth
and a bunch of grass left over from last
year so that's going to really be good
feed for our cows when we turn them in
here really happy to see all this
grass so our home place is just right
down there this is just just kind of the
fingers where the Black Hills come down
and turn into the Prairie so we've
got some space up here that we graze in
the spring and we do some grazing up
here in the fall as well keep some cows
up here in the winter um but it's really
good really good spring
pasture kind of some cool season grasses
up here but so far the fence has looked
really good I've got probably five
pastures up here to go around and we're
going to turn some cows in here tomorrow
I believe so
yeah I think tomorrow so
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I got all the fence fixed up over where
I was fixing it yesterday um today we're
going to move those cows up there so
just came we're going to move these this
group that we've got right in this
pasture here got to bring them under the
interstate and under the highway which
is always interesting with the Cals it
being their first time going through the
tunnel so
could be a little bit of a rodeo we'll
see it's usually a lot of fun go
on so Jock's going to ride the bottom
down there bring those cows up and we
got a bunch spread up out here on top
that I'll
get and we'll just meet at the gate
hopefully if things go right
come on let's
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go come on
girls
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hey
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hey you're okay buddy come on cows let's
go
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hey come on
cab
hey go on up through the tunnel let's
go hey cow come on
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up through the tunnel come
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on hey CF hey
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CF turn around hey hey hey turn
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around hey CF hey CF no go up there with
your
mom hey hey hey hey he hey hey hey where
you going cow
hey GS hey GS hey hey hey
hey get up there with your mobs go
on hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey
hey get up there let's go
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go on up there come on through the
tunnel let's
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go it's kind of a rag tag way of doing
this but it works pretty
good hey Cavs get in there come on
hey Cavs get in there come
on hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
come on get in there
on
on come on
hey on
C hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey come on C is getting there let's go
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey come on little
guys come
on hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey he
you're not going back get in
there come on cows go on yes
yes yes
hey in
there
hey come on Penelope get in
there hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey
hey hey
hey yes
yes hey
yes hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey he hey hey all right
Cavs follow him let's go he hey hey hey
hey hey hey
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hey hey
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hey
he get up there hey come on you can do
it get in there get up hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey
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heyy hey around come on hey hey keep
going get in there come on hey hey
hey
hey hey
hey don't do that hey hey hey hey
hey get in there let's
go good
G hey hey hey come on buddy come on
buddy come on buddies come on buddies
good
get in there let's
go he hey hey hey hey get in there come
on hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey turn
around hey hey hey
hey go on in there let's
go come onig hey biggy big
put your head out of there
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well we got the cows where we're going
to keep them just going to push them
back towards the gate we just brought
him
through and hold him there let him get
paired up
the cows can find their calves otherwise
we'll have calvs running way back to
where they last saw their mom which is a
long ways
away and that's pretty inconvenient so
hopefully we can get most of them paired
up come on go on back there let's
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go good job today Trump you did good
buddy
we're getting some more rain it's a huge
blessing Angus is ready to go inside but
thank you guys for coming along today
really appreciate it we'll see you in
the next one