NW Oklahoma Outdoor Expo!

The expo was great this weekend. The booth was awesome, we made a lot of contacts and now people of Woodward actually know there is a hunting ranch close! We had a lot of teachers around here stop by wanting to bring there classes out for a tour. I think that is a great idea but having a bunch of kids running around the breeder pens with fawns scared out of their minds isn't a pretty sight! But we will see!

The feed store lady, Becky, wanted her booth beside ours so she can point out what feed and protein do to animals so everyone that visited her booth came over to ours! Everyone was very impressed with all of our sheds we brought and everyone wanted to pick them up to see how heavy they are:) I made a huge picture album of the ranch, the lodge and all the different animals we have and some pictures of Jeff and the kids and the animals they have already harvested and that was a hit too! Who doesn't like looking at pictures?!? The men were in awe of the animals and the women were in awe of the lodge and the master bedroom and bathroom!

Friday was kid day so we had a huge basket full of candy to entice the kiddos to come to our booth, then the parents followed!

Richard came down to help with the booth and working the deer in the breeders pens and everything went smooth Thursday with the bucks. Friday they worked the doe and everything went smooth until they worked the babies from last year. One was just too freaked out that it ran full throttle into a metal fence and broke her jaw. They finally got her in the shoot and gave her shots and medicine and Cody tried to clean her up as much as he could and then let her go because she was stressing to much. We didn't know if she would make it since she was stressing so much. Cody called the vet so she could come out and wire her jaw but baby girl didn't make it. This is the sad thing about raising deer. You never know how they will react one day and we had worked her before and she did fine. I am just glad Cody had enough help this time that I didn't have to be down there to see that.

We went out this afternoon to see if we could call some turkey's up and came across this big guy. I got pretty close to him and it looks like he is cussing me! I think his exact words were, "you better tell your man to make this feeder go off before I charge you!" We also found one of the Minnesota buck in the high fence dead :( It's the one who dropped his antlers like 3 months ago and hangs out at this feeder as well. We think maybe the Fallow ganged up on him because about 5 fallow bucks hang out in this area too and they still have their horns. I guess we will never know what happened:(