Week 4 - Day 3 At the Ranch

Wow... today was hump day which means we are on the back-side of the week. Hard to believe I have been here almost 4 weeks and it will soon come to an end . I have learned a lot and had a super time. Bob is a great teacher and all of the people I have met at his school were great.

If you guessed that we started the day by roping, you were right. First the skinny cow from the ground. Then onto the big guys... these were not part of the "class" thank goodness.

Does anyone know what kind of cattle these are? I'll give you a hint... they are not from North America.

Well as you can see, Cop was our victim this afternoon when we started roping the fat cows. He is called Cop because he is black and white...

As you can see, he gets to lay down on the job. Bob demonstrated how 1 person with a good horse and rope could handle an animal so it could be doctored if need be. He has used this same technique on bulls that weigh over 2000 pounds... glad it was him and not me!

Next we had a little contest to see which team (3 on each side) could rope the most cattle in 10 minutes. Well the "turkeys" (the other team naturally) won the first round 8 to 7 but I think they shorted our time. On the next round the good guys beat the turkeys 9 to 8. Stay tuned for the championship round tomorrow...

Temperature = 74 (another beautiful day that was really hard to take after reading the weather forecast in GR ).