We wrote a blog back in December which we called “Never a dull moment”, it was about how seven of our calves managed to squeeze under the fence and how we managed to eventually round them up and return them to our ranch, six of them that is; another couple of weeks past and we concluded that the remaining one was lost.
Apart from being winter, which would make it harder for the calf to find food, we have an unusually large wolf population in our area, so you can imagine our delight when Glen spotted the calf on one of his trips down to the High Bar. It had been out fending for itself for almost six weeks!
To ensure that the calf would stay in the same general area, Glen and Numchai placed a bale of hay there and then started the process of returning the calf to the ranch. The first step, after the calf had eaten some hay, was to drive it on foot to a corral at a neighbour’s ranch.
The next step was to return to Echo Valley Ranch to hook the horse trailer to the Ford truck, to get the lasso and then head on back out to move the calf out of the corral and into the trailer. Flint and I joined Glen and Numchai to give a helping hand; I was not much help since I was there to take pictures.
Seeing as there was just the one some-what wild calf, it was decided to lasso the calf and with the calf on the end of a rope force it to jump into the trailer. The following pictures tell the story of this endeavour 
Getting ready to catch a calf
Glen and Flint, with lasso at the ready, close in on the wild beast
Flint is now in hot pursuit of his quarry
Tim, who had helped out by clearing snow to make way for the truck and trailer, gets into the corral and turns the calf into the makings of a fighting bull, it knocks Tim off his feet then comes back for an encore!
The calf then puts Glen up the fence....
This sure looks like Flint is turning his attack calf onto Glen....
Watch out Flint - looks like you are next!!
This calf takes on all comers!!
Looks like Flint has had enough "fun" for now
It is not over untill you get her into the truck, thats right, a female which is a heiffer in cattlemen language.
Homeward bound
Bloody 'ell -- and to think they call this fun
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