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I've been looking forward to finally getting to rope some calves on my draft colt. We've had a bunch of rain and should have been branding for a couple weeks already.

She's 3 now and about as gentle as they come. Her mother was a percheron and the stud a quarter horse.

Here she is about 1 week old



And from last saturday. That might not be the first calf but it was one of the first few. You can tell it really made her nervous.





I only roped about 15 calves on her and then switched to my older horse. For a couple reasons, while my colt is very gentle I don't have her reining great yet one handed and we had a lot of ground help so I needed to be dragging them in fast. Plus I didn't want to make her first branding a chore.

I'd already gathered on her the day before plus that morning.


My daughter roped with me too.



This is my older horse, half sister to the draft. Out of a different mare. She's 9. When I brought that calf in there was only one wrestler available to I held the back legs while he held the head. I don't remember what Bernardino and I were talking about then.