| There is not a lot of places left in Manitoba where the | | | | comes round up, a time every cowboy and cowgirl |
| range runs far and wide, so for a lot of Manitoba | | | | looks forward to. |
| Cowboys Community pastures provide a place to ride | | | | Alot of people raise their own horses but I don't think |
| and use their cowboy skills. Approximately 3,100 | | | | there are a lot of them that can actually put them to |
| producers use the pastures each summer, grazing | | | | work and find out what kind of horse they have bred. |
| about 220,000 head of livestock and utilizing over 3,000 | | | | There's alot to training a good ranch horse and it takes |
| bulls in the pasture breeding program. In my opinion this | | | | time, which alot of us don't have. It's not something one |
| is one of the best places to be able to train your horse | | | | can just do here and there. I think being able to raise |
| for ranch work. They are handled and used daily in a | | | | your own horses and work them as a family is a |
| variety of jobs. | | | | great benefit. Not only do you get to work together as |
| In the spring the cowboy's are busy branding, giving | | | | a family but the horses are well cared for and |
| inoculations, de-horning and castration. During the | | | | because they know their horses so well, they know |
| summer they check the cattle everyday, on the look | | | | where their horses abilities lay. |
| out for pink eye, hoof rot and other injuries. In the fall | | | | |