Farm & Ranch
Horse Trainer Mike Major
By Dani Blackburn
Horse trainer Mike Major cannot remember a time he was not horseback. At the tender age of seven, he broke his first colt and quickly fell in love with the challenge training presented. With a deep understanding of a horse’s mind, the patience to teach and a strong attention to detail in the show pen, success has followed Major throughout his career.
“It has been great,” Major said of his accomplished career. “I have met a lot of neat people. It has been fun, of course, success makes it fun. I think you learn how to win, but it’s not about beating anybody because I don’t think I have ever competed against anybody other than myself. You just have to be very diligent on everything you do in a show pen.”
His list of accomplishments includes the 2009 and 2010 American Quarter Horse Association Open World Championship Versatility Ranch Horse title on his 1999 bay stallion, Smart Whiskey Doc. Major also claimed the 2010 Battle in the Saddle Ranch Remuda Challenge and the 2012 AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse Open World Championship on Whiskey’s daughter, Black Hope Stik. Most recently, he was named this year’s Road to the Horse winner, but it all began on his father’s ranch north of Magdalena, NM.
By Tressa Lawrence
Babies are tucked away in every nook and cranny. Many ranchers across Wyoming have baby animals popping up all over this time of year.
By Lindsey Monk
Another load of grain in to keep feeding the calves until the green grass can really start popping.
By Rayford Pullen | [email protected]
Spring has sprung and hopefully the rains will continue where our country will heal from the previous droughts and our grasses will thrive. We are especially hopeful for the Panhandle of Texas where our neighbors and friends have been dealt a deadly blow to homes, ranges, livestock, and people. Keep them in your prayers as they will not be able to return to normal for many years if at all. Having lost their ability to benefit from this great cattle market is a double whammy for all of them.
Now is the time of year when we need to take care of business as it relates to our new calves that have been hitting the ground this spring. First and foremost is vaccinating for Blackleg followed by deworming with a white wormer and the IBR complex. Blackleg is a soil-born disease and with pastures extremely short this spring our calves have been grazing the green grass as soon as it shows itself, making them even more vulnerable to picking contaminates from the soil.
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