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Wade Acres on 'Real Time Farms'Filed under: General ranch and farm stuff, History, ranchwabble, Rodeo | Tags: drip system, elizabeth stampede rodeo, volunteer fire department, volunteer fire fighter
Wow! Another crazy year behind us… It was a very dry winter this year and a pretty dry summer too…This winter is looking a little better so far. We had one heifer and one bull this year. The heifer was named Beretta in a contest and I named the bull Dieter.
We had a great Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo in June. Simone is in charge of the VIP contestant tent Bret takes care of the sponsor banners and signs. During the rodeo Justin and Bret help with tickets. Amanda works in the beer tent. The Elizabeth Stampede won the award from the PRCA for best small town rodeo beating out over 400 other rodeos.
We lost our Dog, Shy-Anne during the rodeo. She was hit by a car. We miss her. She was a very fun dog to have around. One of our friends from the rodeo had to get rid of his dog (Jade) so we took her in. She is Golden retriever, Chow and Timber wolf mix. She is working out fine. We did have to train her not to eat the chickens or the kittens.
We built a drip system and planted about ½ acre of pumpkins. We watered about 600 gallons per day and ended up with a little over 200 pumpkins. We are going to expand to 1 acre next season, working our way up to 1000 pumpkins, some day.
The summer was busy working with the animals, the garden and the pumpkins. We continued to get more chickens all summer. We had up to 35 at one point but we still couldn’t keep up with the egg demand so we are probably going to get 50 or so more chicks in the spring this year.
Amanda and her boy friend Darren live 5 miles away. They have a nice log house on 80 acres with a big garage that Darren uses to do some more side work. Darren works forElbertCountyand Amanda is the shift manager at IHOP in Limon.
Justin is now a junior volunteer fire fighter with the Simla Volunteer Fire Department. He is doing well in school (Mostly A’s) and is the vice president on the student counsel. He is a Center and Nose-tackle on the football team. They ended up making it all the way to the Simi-finals. He got his first letter in ‘match wits’ where they answer trivia questions as a team. He is really into hunting – We got 3 Antelope this fall and had a lot of good jerky and other meats from it.
Simone had to sell her horse to get tickets for Germanyto see her mom but she has another horse she is training now.
We brought one steer to process this fall. We sold 3 quarters and kept one for ourselves. We bought a goose from the auction for $4 and had that one for Thanksgiving diner. Our neighbor gave us 4 more geese and a turkey that weighed in at 47 pounds. We also traded some antelope for pork so the freezer looks pretty good right now.
Bret built a new web site for the farm www.wadeacres.com . There is not too much going on with it right now but we are going to have live farm animal video on it soon and we will be able to schedule events. There are continuous changes on it so keep checking back. We still have the blog, www.ranchwabble.com. We hope this new year is your best year ever.
Happy New Year,
Bret Wade
Wade Acres
Simla,CO.
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