Picking up the Herefords

This is what we were up to yesterday in the rain. We had to drive to Acton to pick up 12 Herefords and some crosses. Travis came down to help us thank goodness. I didn't get to take any pictures of the actual loading since I was also knee deep in the much helping to get them loaded, did I already say it was raining? Okay well truth be told it stopped just as we were getting ready to put them in the trailer. It rained on Jeremy and I the whole time we were sorting a few out of another pen and moving them and then we built a small area to help the loading.

Then we loaded some hay so we could keep them in the pen for a few days with some of our herd. These cows have been in a pen all their lives so it will be interesting to put them out on pasture. Two of them are also pregnant, it sure would be nice if they would have their calves before we put them out.

Fattest cows ever!

Here are the new girls and one boy. He will look nice in the freezer!

Here is our new chute we got from a friend of Jeremy's. We went to Tehachapi to pick it up after dropping the cows off. We will need to brand all of them since they are all SLICK HIDED! Can't have slicks out on pasture! It was a fiasco getting it in the trailer but it is here now.

Did I mention that Moose, Sage's little dog follows the trailer? Oh yes, he is now missing. He has done this before and sometimes he catches up to us and sometimes he just winds up back at home by the time we get there. Well, since it was raining we didn't think he would follow us. Not to mention Jeremy kept looking in the rearview mirrors to make sure we didn't see him following. So we get down into Rosamond and are checking the air pressure in the trailer and get a phone call from a friend that lives up on the mountain saying he saw Moose running down the dirt road. He said he tried to catch him but he wouldn't come. AND he was heading away from home. Well, we were at least 30 miles away and a full day of work to do so we figured he would be at home when we got there. He wasn't and isn't..............Sage stayed the night with Grandma so she doesn't know yet. Steele and spent all morning driving around in the desert looking for him and talking to the few neighbors that we have. I imagine I will have to drive out to Mojave to the pound to check tommorow. As I was driving around Jeremy had called to see how it was going and to tell me about the pack of dogs that came running down the hill toward the new cows we just hauled in. He said they were so aggressive they we barking as soon as they topped the hill and were going right for the cows. Paul got our dogs and Jeremy ran to the house to get the gun and they went after them since by then Paul yelling at our dogs had turned them back. If anyone knows our place you know we don't just have neighbors close that the dogs could belong to. Even if they did they had better keep them home cause we have had enough calves killed we have no use for wild dogs packing up. Anyhow, please wish me luck in finding ol Moose. Sage is going to be heartbroke...........I sure hope the wild dogs don't have anything to do with why he is not home.