Talk:Ranch

Images

Not a ranch. Description: "On the 300 square mile Jornada Experimental Range near Las Cruces, en:New Mexico, technicians Rob Dunlap (left) and John Smith round up cattle. High-tech equipment may make roundups easier in the future." The Jornada Basin LTER is used for agricultural studies by the government.

Historical image of a round up on a ranch near Cimarron, Colorado. While the fact that "The Cimarron" is a ranch isn't stated explicity, it doesn't refer to the Cimarron Territory - that wasn't in Colorado - the buildings shown are similar to File:RanchOklahoma.ws.jpg, and round-ups are, by definition, done at the ranch before moving out on the cattle drive.

Why is the image that is obviously not on a ranch keep getting added to this article, but the one that is a ranch gets removed? This isn't Cattle drive, the modern image has no place here. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:02, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

The other one isn't necessarily a ranch, either, if you note the material with the image at commons. But upon reflection, it is a better image, which is why I came around to your thinking on the matter and left it. Nonetheless, I must correct some of your misunderstandings...The image to me appears to be a roundup bringing cattle near what is probably a railhead on the outside of a town. (I live in Montana, we still have old stock corrals sort of like that along the railroad tracks in a lot of small towns.) A roundup actually does NOT necessarily begin on the ranch, it begins wherever the cattle are! --which in the old days was often the open range, which was public land--and in modern times it often STILL is public land, only now a Forest service or BLM lease. They are brought to a central gathering point, at which time they have been "rounded up", post-tense, i.e. gathered in from wherever they were scattered to. Then once rounded up, they are driven (i.e. as in a cattle drive) to wherever they need to go: maybe to market, maybe to the home ranch for winter, maybe to a railhead (in the old days, especially) or, in modern times, into trucks to go wherever. Montanabw^(talk) 20:30, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Charros

Salamanca (Spain) is a province of the old region of León, not Castille. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.221.218.240 (talk) 21:06, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Go ahead and fix. Montanabw^(talk) 00:03, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

What you can do

In Ranch's you can have a lot of fun. You can ride your horses, feed animals, invite friends over, etc. You can also have a huge party because usual ranch's have a huge house. 'Bold text' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.83.140.3 (talk) 16:11, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Ranch 5 Facts

1. Ranch's have animals.

2. howoeohooe — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.83.140.3 (talk) 16:14, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

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