Roaring Springs Ranch

There’s more going on here than I can wrap my head around. Well, not necessarily at this branding, but the enterprise of the entire ranch. Types of cows. Ages of cows. Cows that leave for the winter. Cows that stay. Endless parcels of land that each have their own cows and the cowboys know what’s where and why. Corralling these cows here and then letting them loose there. Maybe it’s for new feeding ground, letting the grass replenish where a herd has just been. Or maybe they’re separating yearlings from their mothers, since they won’t be able to survive the winter here. Or they could be wrangling up steers to get ready to ship to a feed lot, where they cows will gain significant mass before processing.