Special Events/Educational Opportunities

• Ranch Explorers Day

• Gather and work two-year-old replacement heifers
• Move cows to new pasture
• Ranch maintenance
• Check on calves on off-location pasture
  
• Winter supplementation

• Test yearling heifers for pregnancy
• Begin bringing pregnant heifers back to V-V from off-location pasture
• Move cows to new pasture
• Collect carcass data
• Ranch maintenance

• Gather and work mature cows
• Heifers begin calving - check every 2 hours
• Calving Management Class (University of Arizona)
• Tag and weigh calves at birth
• Move cows to new pasture
• Ranch maintenance
• Check on calves on off-location pasture

• Test yearling heifers still on off-location pasture for pregnancy
• Haul remaining pregnant heifers to V-V
• Annual Ranch Explorers' Day
• Move cows to new pasture
• Ranch maintenance

• Heifers calving - check every 2 hours
• Cows begin calving
• Tag and weigh calves at birth
• Move cows to new pasture
• Ranch maintenance
• Check on calves on off-location pasture

• Remove herd (clean-up) bulls from mature cows at V-V
• Move cows to new pasture
• Ranch maintenance

• Cows calving
• Tag and weigh calves at birth
• Brand, bleed (draw blood from), dehorn, castrate, and tattoo heifers' calves
• Weigh and score heifers for body condition
• Test bulls for breeding soundness
• Check on calves on off-location pasture
• Move cows to new pasture

• Gather cows for vaccinations, weight and body condition score
• Wean calves, weigh and vaccinate
• Haul weaned calves to off-location pasture or to UA Feedlot
• Move cows to new pasture
• Number-brand replacement heifers
• Ranch maintenance

• Cows calving
• Tag and weigh calves at birth
• Brand, bleed (draw blood from), dehorn, castrate, and tattoo cows' calves
• Weigh and score cows for body condition
• Collect yearling measures on previous year's calves (weight, condition score, reproductive tract score, pelvic measurements, scrotal circumference)
• Synchronize and artificially breed (AI) yearling heifers
• Turn out clean-up bulls with yearling heifers
• Move cows to new pasture
• Ranch maintenance

• Boost calf vaccinations
• Move cows to new pasture
• DNA verify parentage of calves
• Evaluate range
• Check on calves on off-location pasture
• Ranch maintenance

• Synchronize and AI cows
• Cows finish calving
• Tag and weigh calves at birth
• Brand, bleed (draw blood from), dehorn, castrate, and tattoo calves of later calving cows
• Remove clean-up bulls from yearling heifers
• Turn out clean-up bulls with mature cows

• Make grazing schedule for upcoming year for Forest Service
• Move cows to new pature
• Check on calves on off-location pasture
• Ranch maintenance

• Collect Data
• Maintain Livestock Database
• Record and evaluate herd performance
• Maintain livestock inventory
• Manage ranch finances
• Prepare and analyze financial reports