Sorry this is so late I had it written and just forgot to post it. Which is OK because now we have the pictures to supplement it :)
This past weekend Roni, Ed, and I drove to the Taliaferro's ranch located just east of Kemmerer, to help with sheep docking. Now most people know that I have gone sheep docking for the past 5 years with Taliaferros but most are surprised to learn that Roni and Ed went with me, and LOVED IT!! Who knew that Ed would be so eager to try cutting off the tails and removing the testicles of young lambs so quickly? He jumped in to do it during the second pen, but then he is a coroner and blood does not scare him. I think the best way to describe this is to show you these pictures of him docking.
Saturday afternoon we rode four wheelers to the field that we were going to dock in. Lucky us - a storm decided to hit that area just as we were completing that pen and when we rode out we got soaked. The rain, mixed with the blood and the mud, made us quite messy. Here are some pictures of Roni and I when we got back to ranch, which as you can see, was not experiencing any rain storm. The weather was actually quite nice when we got back to the ranch. Gotta love Wyoming weather. Here are the pictures as proof.
However, Ed wasn’t the only one who jumped in on the docking fun. Since we got rained out with the last flock on Sunday, Roni got her sheep to dock from a herd that was staying in the field near the ranch. It was neat to watch Laura (Taliaferro) Pearson’s new sheep dog round up the small flock and move them to us so we could catch the lamb that Laura had in mind. (This lamb was special to her because it was the first- and so far only- circumcision she had ever performed.)
Saturday afternoon we rode four wheelers to the field that we were going to dock in. Lucky us - a storm decided to hit that area just as we were completing that pen and when we rode out we got soaked. The rain, mixed with the blood and the mud, made us quite messy. Here are some pictures of Roni and I when we got back to ranch, which as you can see, was not experiencing any rain storm. The weather was actually quite nice when we got back to the ranch. Gotta love Wyoming weather. Here are the pictures as proof.
However, Ed wasn’t the only one who jumped in on the docking fun. Since we got rained out with the last flock on Sunday, Roni got her sheep to dock from a herd that was staying in the field near the ranch. It was neat to watch Laura (Taliaferro) Pearson’s new sheep dog round up the small flock and move them to us so we could catch the lamb that Laura had in mind. (This lamb was special to her because it was the first- and so far only- circumcision she had ever performed.) We made sure that Roni got to do this docking because 1) she wanted to, and 2) Ed had made a bet with his deputy Amy that Roni wasn’t too 'girly' to do it. Amy was betting that Roni would never actually dock in the traditional manner. Sorry Amy, but Roni came through.
Here’s the pictures we took.
This is Roni cutting off the tail. This is done so that the animal is cleaner because a long, limp tail has a tendency to get dirty when the animal is sitting or laying down, and gets covered in feces when the animal relieves itself.
This is Roni cutting off the tail. This is done so that the animal is cleaner because a long, limp tail has a tendency to get dirty when the animal is sitting or laying down, and gets covered in feces when the animal relieves itself.
Sunday was Father’s Day so here is a picture of me with both of my Dads. 
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