Old Barns are Beautiful. Three mornings a week I take my horse Beau south of our main ranch to check the 400 steers we have grazing the tall, natural grasses on the Prairie Preserve.The first time I went it was dark and rainy when I arrived.I saddled my horse and headed out across the prairie….
My little cow horse “Beau” loves helping me check the steers resting in the pasture….Beau has ears like a fox and can move like a cat…which is how I ended up with him. A horse broker was selling him for someone who said “he was too much horse for the rider.” This sometimes happens that…
Oklahoma native and humorist, Will Rogers on horseback outside the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers…..This statue of the great humorist and philosopher, Will Rogers, stands just outside the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City….
Decisions can be difficult; have faith. Sometimes you just have to make a “judgement call,” making the best decision you can at the time with the information and experience you possess.You have to make a decision. On the ranch, as in life, you can’t become paralyzed by doubt and indecision. A calf is struggling: Do…
Ranching in Oklahoma I sat in a feed truck on the side of a highway with my Dad. The vehicle’s emergency flashers pulsed in the fading daylight. We were watching the thick trees along the fence line for cows and calves that might dart toward the road. My dad raises bucking bulls and his cows…
A lovely young woman with beautiful red hair and an amazing coat recently came to see the cows. She is a reporter for a local television station; here to tell our story. But I think her story is one worth telling… She is a young woman is from Dallas and is working her first job…
It’s no secret… I really like this guy.I love and appreciate Roger more with each passing year. I am so glad he’s my partner on the ranch and in life. I am always grateful for his wisdom, patience, hard work and sense of humor. He loves his family and he loves his cattle. He takes…
I have been out on the Prairie Preserve checking steers with my horse Beau.There’s a lot of ground to cover in 1700+ acres. It’s beautiful country that goes from open prairie to rocks and cactus to wooded ravines and one of only two free flowing rivers in Oklahoma. We lease this land in the summer…
Best Cowgirl Boots These boots were made for riding..We love using horses on our ranch. Having an ATV to help carry supplies, put out mineral or check a mama trying to calve is wonderfully quick and efficient on the ranch. Roger and I often load up our dogs, Sadie andBonnie, and drive through the herds….
Would you want to ride a horse? Beau and I hit the trail today at the Prairie Preserve pasture. He was a real champ carrying me through the low fog and the light mist to check all the cattle. He jumped creeks and crossed rocky patches filled with cactus. He would perk his little fox-like…
How to be a real cowboy. These four cowboys are amazing “hands” when it comes to a horse or livestock.Jet. Tuff, Taw and Newt are cowboys through and through…even their names sound like the characters in a western movie!You won’t find a harder working crew and they are each strong Christian men. They gathered, sorted…
What is your comfort zone? I’m at home in a barn…The horses, the dirt, the smells, the sounds…Everything about a barn is in my blood. A barn is comfortable to me. Over the last 3 years of Callison Ranch Beef & Market, I have found myself in places that were not my comfort zone. Places…