What a nice video! Thank you for great information and sentiments of the old west. I love your training that's so dead on. Thank you, Deb for the muti-tasking too. Riding and am thankful that my back is still dust free!
Hello from chilly Montana. Hauling hay today & waiting for the tractor to warm up so figured I'd catch up on the RU-vids. We're going to have to start feeding early too...terrible dry this year & no grass left. Have a great day, Pat & Deb. 🐃🐃🐃🏇
Pat there is a guy from Africa that teaches turn dessert into lush grass land. He over grazes small Paddock of land and moves herd off. You are right huge herds of buffalo would have tilled the land in migration .on return lush grass land. Not much gets by you ! Hell you might have showed the guy. Lol
we ran sheep for 25 years in the Laramie Valley. Sheep are well suited. We acquired, during that time and now run cows. With lamb prices so high now, I wish we had a thousand head. We will in the near future. Our grazing practices actually sequesters carbon. In my experience, cows and sheep make great companion grazers. A buffalo is the size of a cow, but in addition, like a sheep, it can eat independently, with each side of it’s mouth. The sheep and cow team up and provide a grazing pressure similar to the buffalo. You gave a visual and great description of this. Thank you for explaining and showing people, that a grazing pressure, properly managed, improves the land. Oh, and by the bye, I have always aspired to improve my training proficiency and horsemanship, my whole life, kinda on my own. You describe yourself as an almost lifetime student. Your videos have inspired me. I have the project horse and a little more time now, depending on how you look at it. The fact that you’re going to make a Spade bit horse out of Chinaco, a real nice horse, tells me that you’re a confident optimist. No doubt in my mind. Thank you
Enjoy your ride, it sure looks like the perfect morning on your range. Wish I had that much country to cover as it's a great day for a ride here in Nova Scotia too (Tatamagouche),, the land of the Mig Maew people.
I'm in Tucson and I have been in the Pinal county area of farming as well as several other areas of this wonderful state. I stay at Airbnbs. It's beautiful and you are a pleasure to watch, thanks. Although I love the lifestyle of cattle farming and range farming, I no longer eat meat, being on a strict (and very enjoyable) food program that lowered my serum cholesterol and got me off blood pressure medication. It's obviously a part of culture that will never change and the ranchers I know are very friendly people! I watch some homesteader videos and used to watch a lot of dairy farming videos. Of course, I have a particular interest in what I eat primarily which is wheat and black beans. However I eat food that comes from other continents of course, like the tea (probably) and bananas. The spinach is from here I'm sure.
Thanks to Deb and Pat - for taking the time to share the knowledge they have - I love these rides out:)(I was thinking how much effort you folks put into making these wonderful videos:)
Props to you for recognizing the work it takes to produce these videos. It takes way more time and effort than most people realize. BTW, I consider Pat's knowledge about ranching to be first rate.
Greetings from Cedarville, as I'm packing it up for a more southern situation. That great basin rye up here is similar in growing, if you can run cows on it hard to break up the grass pods, then pull em' off, it's my feeling a fella could do well naturally after a few years when the rye fills in. The Bare Ranch south of Eagleville runs sheep right after the cows, clean fence lines, nothing left unconsumed . Nice to see you guys
Hey pat, I was wondering if you have done or could do a video on how to get a horse ready to rope off of and at what point in there training do you start getting them ready to rope and roping off the horse swinging a rope around and on top of the horse, thanks in advance.
Very interesting hearing how the desert works for cows with the addition of the licks. Not something hollywood cowboys ever explain. Although I live on a pile of sand, we regard water by its temperature, here on the shore of Lake Michigan.
I've been watching these other videos with a farmer back in Vermont and they refer to it as regenerative farming which is overgrazing a small piece of land he has cattle geese and ducks that he rotates through on his land
Interesting. I wonder, do you keep the cattle in that desert during winter, or just fall ? If so would you give them hay or they’ll just live in what they find ? I guess it’s a lot of walking for little food. Water must be an issue too. Do you select a breed more than another for his capacity of living in that bush ?Sorry for the questions but once again your country is quite different to mine - Normandy. Here for food the cattle just need to lower the head! Best! G
Taking CARE of the LAND, Water, Cows, Sheep, Horses ....ALL part of being a Rancher ..KILLING the buffalo---------NOT GOOD ..That was ALL "POLITICAL" !! THIS IS a GREAT VIDEO ...NOW if we could just get the FOREST SERVICE STRAIGHTENED OUT????? And Deb your shots are VERY GOOD ... Thank You Both Again for the information and FANTASTIC Scenery ..
