Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
McKeen Ranch Days 2017
McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Sugarbum, the calf, rests after all the attention from students.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Bohdi Baker of G.W. Stout tries his hand at roping.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Andrew Bryant of the Forest Service, with Moose, shows students from G.W. Stout Elementary the pack horse's teeth.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Cheryl Butterfield of the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau shows homeschoolers and Alpine, AZ, students different sized seeds.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Some of the plants grown from seeds.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Judy O'Loughlin, Grant County extension director, showing Reserve elementary students how to hand churn butter.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Dean and Dara Foster cooking biscuits in a Dutch oven.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Yum! Biscuits in a Dutch oven.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Dean Foster warns the students about the hot lid of the Dutch oven.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Students eating a fresh off the fire biscuit with butter and honey.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Frisco Cowbelles helped out with the lunches for the about 300 students. From left are Sallie Mason, Jenny Forward, Sam Duree, Joanne Kopren, Rose Bush, Jane Clumpier, Cathy Murphy, Ann Leonard and Jeanne Johnson.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Margie McKeen, the organizer of Ranch Days.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Robby Birch tells students from Stout about beekeeping.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Christian Sell, farrier, shows how to shape a horseshoe to students from Stout
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Monty Topmiller asks the students to decide which side of the river they would rather live on.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Grant Smith and his traveling chuckwagon that he built himself.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Chuku Odocha, Cliff sixth grader, pulls partially digested grass out of the stomach of a cannulated cow.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
A patient cannulated cow.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Hannah Miller, a Cliff School sixth grader, pulls partially digested grass out of the stomach of the cannulated cow.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Kirsten Romig of the USDA cleans up before the next group of students.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
A young calf stops licking the salt lick to check out the photographer.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
G.W. Stout Elementary students get a lesson about farm equipment from Henry and Nita Imel and Jay McKeen of Glenwood.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Steve Beck and Craig Painter show Casey Rogers and Bohdi Baker how to shoot a gun.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
New Mexico Game and Fish officers out of Silver City, Adan Jacquez and Derek Theobald show how to hit the target
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Sixth Street School students try their hands at archery. Laz McCauley has just shot an arrow.
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
John Allen, Socorro County ag agent, teaches students from Reserve schools about vermiculture
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McKeen Ranch Days 2017
Grant County Extension agricultural agent, Jessica Swapp, shows G.W. Stout Elementary students what ranch life is like.
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Margie and Hugh B. McKeen of Alma, NM, have been hosting Ranch Days to teach elementary school students about ranching life for 19 years. About 300 students, each on Tuesday and Wednesday, attended the more than 20 stations, ate lunch and then watched branding.