Weaning at 4K ranch Monday afternoon

 As you may have gotten a hint from the title, me my dad and a friend of his were weaning cows Monday afternoon. For those of you who have absolutely no idea what weaning is, it is quite simple. Weaning is were ranchers separate the cow's from the calves. The first step is to chase all the cows and calves into a pen. This part is usually easy. Lucky for us it went smoothly!! 
  
The second step is to separate the cow's from their baby's. My job in this part is to bring my dad some cows and calves so he can let the cows out the gate to a different pen and stop the calves from going with there moms. This part also went smoothly. Here are some  picture of me doing that.

  

The third step is to separate the calves into two groups. The groups are the ones that we keep and the other ones are the ones that are going to go to the auction. This part went well to.

 The last step is to load the calves into the big semi truck so they can go to the auction!!

After all it went really well. The only disadvantage of weaning is that, that night and three days after all we hear is the mooing of the cow's...