What a sh*tty beginning...

June 6

• Left Fort Collins at 3, arrived at the Ranch at 6
• Settled in
• Duane gave me tomorrow off
• Ate dinner with Duane

June 7

• Slept till noon
• Helped Amanda fix fence
• Went to Saratoga for dinner at the Wolf

June 8

• Gathered up groups A and B with their calves
• Sorted off calves
• Pulled CIDR’s
• Gave group A lutylase and a heat patch after three hours
• Gave group B lutylase and a heat patch after 10 hours
• On horseback
• Rode pastures to check fences and on heifers

June 9

• Cleaned out the two chutes and work area
• On horseback
• gathered groups A and B and moved them with their calves to a new pasture
• gathered heifers and moved them to a new pasture
• gathered group C and moved them with their calves to a new pasture
• worked on some fence
• mowed the lawn

June 10

• Made coffee
• Saddled up and gathered up group C
• Sorted off calves
• Pulled CIDR’s
• Gave lyutlase
• Put on heat patches
• Fixed fence
• Pounded nails
• Fixed electric fence

June 11

• Made coffee
• Saddled up and gathered up group A and B
• Sorted off calves
• Gave GnRH shots
• AI’ed
• Put fly tags in
• Heat checked group C
• Gathered up calves and put them back in with group A and B

June 12

• BBQ at Duane’s house
• In the afternoon we gathered up group C
• Sorted off calves
• AI’ed
• I got to arm two cows so hopefully I got them bred!

June 13

• Fixed fence all day

June 14 and 15- weekend off, I went to Torrington to see Zach and help with the jackpot show.

June 16

• Gathered up groups A, B and C
• Sorted calves into 5 different breeding pastures
• Sorted cows in to 5 different breeding pastures
• Moved groups out to their respected pastures

June 17

• Moved bulls to the upper house pasture
• Went into town with Mike to pick up the pick-up
• Cleaned the office-mopped and swept
• Mowed the lawn, weed whacked
  
• Set out sprinklers
• Took a mineral block to the bulls
• Cleaned the house, top to bottom after work

June 18

• Dug up the septic tank-about 10 holes in the side yard
• Broke the gas and the sewer lines
• Went to town to get some cleaning supplies and filters for the washer, has lunch at the Wolf
• Drained the tank, built a cover for the tank and filled the holes back in
• Had dinner with Duane, learned how to rope

June 19

• Duane and I rode pastures to check health on all cows and calves
• Learned how to put data into the computer system
• Loaded the bull of Condict’s
• After work went to a concert in Rawlins-Brenn Hill

June 20

• I worked with Mike today
• I learned how to put in dams, moved them
• We cleared out some ditches, the head gate and opened up some areas

June 21

• Set our sprinklers
• Cleaned out two livestock trailers, power washed
• Clean off the spreader

June 22-Sunday off. Dr. Enns brought a group of grad students up for a tour

I pretty much work 7 days a week, roughly 10 hours a day. Its great experience, but a lot of long, hard days.