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Headed to the Red Bluff Roundup yesterday with a buddy. Stopped at his friends annual BBQ before the rodeo and they were passing them around.

Damnit if they weren't really good!

Who knew? LOL

Perfect weather for the Roundup too. 80* with just a little breeze.

Wild horse races were my fav as usual.

They ain’t bad reminds me of fried morels

Y'all can have my portions of those...

Ate a bunch of them in my life. When they are done right they are really good. When they are not done right they are very bad. If you ever find yourself in Severance, Colo stop in Bruce's Bar and get some. That place does them right.

Go for the Record Fahma'... Lamb fries!

Mmmmmm . . . . nutsacks. Do they come with a creamy dipping sauce?

My PT lady came back from a visit to some place down by Reno with some of her coworkers.

They went down there just to try them.

She loved them she said.

In central AZ they are cooked fresh and in high demand at every ranch cuttin/brandin dinner. Sometimes lightly breaded, and maybe some dippin sauce.

More of a chiggun gizzard man myself. But enjoy em all ya want.

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Really delicious with a little Tabasco.

Good stuff.

It's been over 30 years since I had any. The branding 'stove' has a section of pipe trimmed and welded on for frying them up.


No knife now, band 'em when I ear tag or at branding.

Thankfullly I've never been that hungry.

Ate them my whole life, that was my job as a little kid , taking buckets of calf nuts to women cooking during spring round up, the trick is slice them thin and fry them in your special flour and season.

There’s a trick to cleanin em🤢

Used to help out at branding time. Reward was the chow afterwards, including all the Rocky Mountain Oysters we'd "processed" during the day. Damn fine eating.

Never turn my nose up to a good gizzard.
My new S-I-L likes them too, unfortunately.

I’d try nuts in a heartbeat, but it ain’t a thang
Here, and most get strangled by a rubber band.

Sam;
Good afternoon my friend, I trust you and the family are all well and getting decent weather down there today.

While it's been a couple springs now since my rancher buddy sold off his herd, previous to that it had to be at least the last decade and more likely 15 years that we went to banding the calves.

Around the same time we started clipping the fur in combination with an electric iron, then would apply an aloe gel onto the calf.

Again it's been a long, long time since we had the discussion Sam, but I want to say there was a weight gain in the fall calves shipped when those changes were made. Might have been 10 or maybe 15 pounds heavier, but they were heavier.

His theory was less stress helped them bounce back quicker.

Back when we used to cut them, he had a dog that looked like some sort of Spaniel that we all called "Nutsy" because he surely loved them.

For the life of me I can't recall it's real name anymore Sam.

Thanks for the memories that otherwise wouldn't have come back this afternoon Sam, much appreciated.

Of course thanks to Higginez as well for that.

All the best to you all.

Dwayne

PS.

It's sort of a "thing" with the visiting sheep hunters to eat the nuts too.

I kept the sack and had it tanned, still have it and another one. They're huge considering the size of a California ram isn't any bigger than a decent mulie buck.

They'll no doubt go to the first grandson for a show and tell at school.....

All the best once more/still

Once is enough.