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This week on the ranch…

Melanie captured this image back on the ranch after another storm cell passed over. In her words, “We’ve had a remarkable cool and rainy spring. Massive storm cells pass over the ranch, bringing the awesome clash of thunder and lightning at their head and cooling rain in their wake. The past few years, June has been marked by hot, dry and dusty days. Not this year.

With the unprecedented moisture and the decades long practice and process of replenishing and renewing our soil through regenerative grazing methods, the forage at the home ranch is so high in sugars and other nutrients that our horses had to go into the summer dry lot rotation yesterday. limiting their turnout will prevent them from gaining too much weight or developing laminitis on the rich grass, as even the harder keepers are fat and glossy.

The herd has been up there for just over a week now, and we’re beginning to settle into the rhythm as crews rotate on and off the range, planning their comings and goings around near-continuous rain storms and slick roads.

The crew this year is a great one, and the stock water and grass are superb up there this year. It’s shaping up to be a wonderful season.

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Quote of the Week

“Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.”

-Edmund Burke

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Dear Friends,

We have buckskins, roans, duns and palominos. Then there are paints, sorrels and bays. Those are the names of colors, but in our life, only on horses. In fact, when you name the color, you are talking about a very specific animal. My daughters get very particular about describing them. They’ll call one a “red dun” or a “gray roan.”

Some are unusual bents on normal coloration. One, for instance, is what they call a “red palomino” even though after much discussion, they call her a “flaxen chestnut.” She breaks the traditional palomino mold of light blonde/yellow hide with a whitish mane and tail. Her hide is deep red (usually), which usually means “chestnut,” but her mane and tail can go to platinum blonde (“flaxen” like cured flax).

And then there is this little phenomenon we call springtime. I don’t know what the mechanism is, but as the horses cruise spring grass, their entire hair coloration can literally shift gears overnight. Their light buckskin hair at sunset can shift to an astounding burnished bronze by morning. I’m guessing it’s the phytochemcials in the grass, but it still astounds me how fast their colors change. It’s like they stepped into a salon and picked a new color.

Once such mare is Ruby, and she shows up in this story I penned a few years back in the spring of our range tour that year. The range was hard for her at first, given her upbringing; now it is second nature. She’s a stalwart member of our range string now; read all about her and a day in the life at cow camp in the high and wild of Bear Basin in today’s excerpt.

Happy Trails,

Glenn

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And that’s it for this week!

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Glenn, Caryl, cowgirls and cowboys at Alderspring.

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