Beginning Ranch Terms
Across
- 2. the riders in a cattle drive that ride to the side of the herd to keep animals gathered
- 4. the end of a beef animal's tail
- 7. a group of horses owned by or worked by a ranch hand
- 9. the individual on a working ranch whose job is to care for, catch, and ready ranch horses for a days work
- 10. how a lariat is wrapped around the saddle horn
- 12. a young beef animal that has not been bred and is under the age of 3 years
- 14. a metal piece of equipment used to capture cattle
- 15. a castrated or altered male beef animal that can not breed
- 16. the riders in a cattle drive the push the cattle from behind the herd
- 18. a castrated or altered male horse that can not breed
- 19. the spike or roller portion of a spur
- 20. the father of an offspring
Down
- 1. a female beef animal that has had a calf or is over the age of 3 years
- 3. to collect animals into a group, often when they are scattered on pasture
- 5. the portion of a lariat that the rope slips through to form a loop
- 6. an unaltered male beef animal that is used for breeding
- 8. the left side of an animal
- 11. the word used to determine which way cattle will move in a herd
- 13. the right side of an animal
- 16. the mother of an offspring
- 17. female horse that hasn't been bred and/or is under 4 years old
- 19. the area a ranch owns or leases for pasture
- 20. the section of a lariat that is "overlapped" with the loop and the remaining coils