Ranch Scenes 2 - Lithia, Florida - Redneck Perspectives

Mon. Apr 8th, 2024

A Never-Ending Chore:

Branding calf — If they are too small for squeeze chute or if they act up in the chute and end up upside down or worse, then we take them out and do it on the ground.

Burning the horn to cauterize.

Good exercise for senior citizens like me.

Showing off. Calf is ok.

Trying to outsmart us.

Calf causing problems. Of course, these “calves” can weigh 500-600 lbs.

An old branding video:

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Back 40 waterhole

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yearlings

angus and brahman

herd bull 566

S126 bull at young age

Ranch in Fall

Winter pasture = no grass!

Fall hay 2

Bano

Back-40-Pond.

Show string at fair

Grand champion 1985 State Fair

Show bull and future herd bull.

Norris bull (from Norris Cattle Co, Ocala Fl.)

show bull

Sunrise in the late 1950’s

herd-bull

Palm River ranch in the 1960’s. Now it’s Clair-Mel City.

hay rolls

Cow herd by the waterhole

Whats this — The old barn

hilltop view 2

Back 40 waterhole

Haytime

Raking hay

More pasture

frosty morn

Pete studying?

West waterhole

Ranch 2015

Back-40-Pond.

More ranch residents:

racoon-2

Night Prowler

Horniron

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