Tag: Sheep
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National Western Stock Show staple and crowd favorite: mutton bustin’
Rodeo cowboys tend to be cool customers as they climb into their mounts. “It’s just another horse,” said bareback bronc rider Clay Stone, 25, from Blackfoot, Idaho, as he readied to ride before a packed Coliseum crowd Monday. Not so, for the National Western’s youngest riding competitors — five-to-seven-year-old children featured in the rodeo’s ever-popular…
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Colorado voters spoke, but ranchers remain wary of wolf reintroduction
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Colorado voters approved the reintroduction of gray wolves in 2020, livestock owners were promised fair compensation for damages and deaths to their animals caused by wolves. But if Colorado mirrors the experiences of livestock owners in states like Idaho and Washington, ranchers around the…