The American Rancher featuring the Nunley Brothers.

now working with my brother is it's a great thing because we think a lot alike and sometimes we don't have to speak it and it kind of confuses other people that we've been together every day for a long time it works really well and it's a nice feeling way to go this is the definition of a family ranch it is blood sweat and tears of every Nunley involved wives grandparents aunts uncles everybody it's a family ranch and we're proud of that well it's been a good life and they need seats a lot of work but it's enjoyable some different everyday hello and welcome to the American Rancher I'm Pam Minich this week we're heading to South Texas not far from the Mexico border to visit the Nunley brothers operation at the coyote ranch outside Sabinal the terrain we'll see on today's program is rough brushy country located west and south of San Antonio and it's unlike many of the places we've taken you to yet Bob and Richard Lindley and their family are excellent ranchers and have raised very good beef cattle in this territory for some 80 years it's going to be a good story as we show you their outfit we're glad you joined us stay tuned the Nunley family is a rock solid South Texas family that has a large landholdings they're known as high quality people and excellent cattle producers the focus is always on having very functional type livestock and cattle operations that that that work for the commercial industry that are profit oriented and it's good dealing with them because their word is their bond they their cattle or are backed up by the reputation and the reputation is is rock-solid we have a family-run business we've been here a long time and we'll be here hopefully for a very long time people who buy our cattle can expect to be able to buy more when they need to replace it's same cattle at same place oh wait tune in to the American Rancher here on rfd-tv each week we bring you the stories from the people and places that make wrenching an American lifestyle it's both the heritage and enterprise of livestock production across our nation each week from the people that do it check our at DTV the magazine four times and listings in your area and visit our website the American Rancher dot-com thanks again to all of you for watching the American Rancher welcome back to the American Rancher the Nunley brothers is a partnership between Bob and Richard Nunley in the cattle business that was started decades earlier by their grandfather red Nunley the ranch is headquartered outside the town of Sabinal Texas our grandfather started as a kid in the cattle business on his own as a very young man with ones and twos and he developed partnerships and and bought lots of steers bought lost years in Mexico took him to Kansas and he bought this ranch - coyote here in 1941 he worked here for mr. Kennedy he owned it briefly and purchased it in 1941 and he's partnered with Dahl Chris got a senior and then later Dahl Frisco jr. for a long time and ran a large cattle operation with him and then when my grandfather passed away we were lucky enough to be able to continue that partnership with Governor Briscoe and saw great benefit from from his friendship and mentoring none of us live down here we had a cook house and a little hunting cabin and I think 18 years ago my wife and I our family moved down here and I guess really where the first ones to live on this place we've had various leases and other ranches around which makes it handy to have a more country right next door use the same equipment the same people to run well grass is always putting us on a horse with Bob and I were young and we did he taught us a lot about riding horses and he put us out in the pasture with a helper a babysitter if you will were young and we dried out all we seized trees all day long and hear him go over in helicopter every once in a while but it was quite an adventure and really early mornings a long hot day a lot a lot of fun good memory South Texas is pretty flat but it's known to be very brushing it counts hide in the brush but it's it's nutritious they do well here obviously like today it gets very hot and not real cold but we have a long drawing season grass does well strong grass it's good for cows ranching and South Texas is good it's tough and if it was easy everybody would be doing it so I guess the fact that we're here and entry level is pretty tough and into that it can be I'm not sure if we're in drought more than we're in in good times but we've been in good times for a couple of summers so you kind of forget the bad stuff but it's all a learning experience and it builds a lot of character our base herd is Santa Gertrudis we raise pure reg netiquette Reuters and we cross them with Hereford to make what we're going to sell in our special sale we also across from with Angus and now we're crossing some of our our syndicate Reuters with taco you see and then these heifers will be bred the sale heifers will be bred to wagon for cavities we've gone with the Wagyu Bulls for cavities just there were a few options and that seemed to be the best option for for a pure fire small calf very important if the customers get a live cow and a live calf and it's not always about how how great that first first calf is but that it's alive and in Mama's alive and that that has shown them through is the most important thing well the Seneca treatise is a is developed in South Texas at the King Ranch and it's it's adapted for this area it's very heat tolerant it covers a lot of ground very thrifty does well in the brush and a pair and the kind of terrain we have and we found it it works pretty good they work pretty good everywhere what's noticeable about these cattle they they grew up in some really harsh South Texas environments on our places and others and our grandfather used to burn pair for them and they would really have to survive through some terrible droughts and and we've seen it likewise calves will be out grazing in heat of the day many times and instead of shaded up like a like other cuddled in and they just done very well and that that matter and they breathe they they're good breeders even in bad conditions like that they get read again and have lots of cash we try to stay on top of technology I think in 91 we started using the ID electronic identification and a lot of our cattle we also use that in our steers to put of a marketing to certify amis as hormone-free we use it in our heifers to keep track of all their medications and all that we first we have a fairly modern squeeze chute we have a sorting alley that my grandfather designed many years ago that we can sort up to seven ways in one pass if it's really handy we can we can select the sort cattle up to seven different ways with using ends up being a mess if you try that many different fats that it's very handy we're counting run through one time and get put where you wanted to without them to be sorted through gates and what-have-you multiple times and easier on the cattle easier on the man and that's that's kind of what we're about we PM's and everything we do with our cattle is about being gentle and easy on them and the people too we used to work our cattle with helicopters my grandfather went from huge crews of mounted Cowboys to Cowboys and helicopter to all helicopter and we are now back to zero helicopters and we use cake wagon and the siren and lots of fencing and just try to outsmart them fun couple we're all Cal Cal we run our Lynn Johnson on land our home raise your limbs and resell in in the spring usually on superior as a garland eight weights more or less just what they normally way we have a three month calving season everywhere we have cows we rotate them we have a high-intensity rotational system some of its in paddocks cells and some of its just the pastures that were on the ranch and predominately gather and work them with a siren and Sakic cake very few Cowboys some Cowboys in the Panhandle in West Texas four wheelers here in South Texas the Nunley operation has been family-run since red Nunley acquired the coyote rant and it's extremely important to Red's grandsons Bob and Richard that Nunley brothers continues as a family-run business in the future and they're beginning to see daily involvement from their children Chloe Sarah and Caroline we're growing up you know my dad pushed me to go out and do something that is non ranch related to get experience elsewhere and bring it back to the ranch in an effort to broaden the horizons I don't think my dad and uncle will ever hang up the reins it's one of those things that ranching you never retire from you're always a part of it and when they finally let me make decisions um would be a scary day I think for everybody but one that's exciting I think taking over the ranch was myself and my two cousins it'll be we're prepared to take it over and or one day maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but someday that's an exciting and daunting idea I think being in charge and but I think - looking forward to it and looking forward to working with with Caroline and Chloe and I'm excited to get to voice my own opinions but also very aware that you know I I'm coming back after some time off and so it's time for me to to be kind of the bottom of the totem pole again well I think that businesses are very similar kind of no matter what they are I was actually focused in the hotel business and it's funny to me how similar the ranching business and the hotel business is very managerial type role and you get to see and work with a lot of people and make your customers happy I think that since I was raised here moving to a city for college was a pretty big shock for me but as much as I love Fort Worth there's nothing that can really replace the life that we have here and being being a just being incorporated into the business has I think given me so much more life experience and I ever imagine my dad has done a really good job of keeping my sister and I and Chloe involved in everything on day to day operations and just daily activities that I feel like I've been really lucky and blessed to have the life that I have it's really important that it's family because if we do it the way we want to and don't rely on someone else to to run the business for us and it's good to be involved every day it's good to have the kids involved they're growing up and their opinions are important and mattering it we can see the future developing they're raising cattle is a family tradition for the Nunley brothers and today the large cow calf operation continues to thrive all across the Lone Star State you're watching the American Rancher stay with us you raising cattle is a famous tradition for the Nelly brothers and today the large cow-calf operation continues to thrive across Texas their Santa Gertrudis bass cows cross with Hereford bulls make an ideal heterosis genetic blend that produces a productive feeder animal along with a superior cow in the pasture join the nemily brothers on September 16th for their one ranch raised annual bred heifer sale offering 600 plus head of the finest Nunley genetics for more information visit Nelly brothers com welcome back to the American Rancher we've seen some unique and rugged country around koyoteranch now we continue our story with the Nunley brothers well our cattle are raised on native pasture on their mamas are there and and so they know how to forage we don't feed them whenever they're never in a feedlot environment they're the most intensive thing is the last few months where they go into this Bermuda grass and they they learn to move without a lot of hassle with horses and equipment to follow the truck leave oh Cyrene makes them easy to handle in the birth 50 their they forage they travel a long ways when they need to they're not spoiled yeah right now it's probably 100 degrees and they they're not shaded up they'll lay around out in the Sun it doesn't seem to bother them a bit our heifer sale is in September we we bring all of our our female perfect cross peppers and off of the oak program and then we expose them to nail waggy bull will rotate those Katalin and intensive rotation two to three day rotation over Luda grass and clown grass all summer and that freedom cake and they learn to go through gates and come to siren and beep cake off the ground and become gentle the herd will be about 700 head give or take so it's a it's a quite a quite a herd moving through a gate from one paddock to the national if you've fun to watch our heifer sale is a September 16th and they can come out a couple of days before and view them they can also view them on superiors website I think they have videos posted beforehand and then on sale day the cattle stay here in the pens and we have the auction over at the lodge and they play the videos so we get to view the cattle in air-conditioned comfort there at the same time people can watch it on Superior's website and bid on the phone our own Internet the Nunley commercial females are very good mark your calendars for Friday September 16th as Bob and Richard host there one Ranch raised annual bread heifer sale at the coyote rant cattleman this is an excellent offering of females that will go anywhere and do the job for you I'm Jerome urbanovsky and I'm a purebred Santa Gertrudis breeder and I'm also a consultant for rancho de sueños who has been buying replacement females from Nunley ranches since their first sale we even have some of those first cows that we bought over ten years ago that are still in the cow herd approximately half of them are 12 to 14 years old and still having a calf every year producing a high-quality calf the santa gertrudis cross cattle that the nunley's have produced which are star fives which were half santa gertrudis have become the the cow the commercial cow of the of the future they've kind of supplanted the Brahman Hereford f1 and they're so versatile you can breed them to almost any any type of bull and you have a high-quality calf we're just starting our I think of 15th year on our heifer sale which we put together our best efforts and run them longer get them bred and sort them up in lots and sell them on superior through our special heifer sale our steers are sold off oats generally February through May and normally weigh around 800 pounds they're sold well whoever grazing or primarily feed yards they are the last few years we've been hormone free and all-natural no antibiotics we have the ability with superior to market them on their merits and the non hormone non-antibiotic and in the uniform load Lots it's done well for us our customers have have taken our cattle all over the United States and from the east coast to - way up north and the Hereford influence that half Hereford in that in the heifers lets them put on more hair and do well in colon barment and in the santa gertrudis just they just do very well then on the heat so southern parts of the state they say it's not work if you love what you're doing I love what I'm doing this is my life it's not work it's every day I get up and I'm excited to go and do something and it's a new adventure you never know what you're going to get into and from the time we meet in the morning til the next morning the whole plan could have changed for the week so there's no monotonous movements about it in that aspect well I think branch life here at the coyote is quite a life to live it's definitely a lifestyle and not not really a job you know it's it's what people do everyday and what they live and breathe and and enjoy doing I think working with my family um it makes me really proud because I get to see all the work that they put in to this business that they've built to be so successful I'm starting with red and then moving through to my dad involved and makes me really proud to be part of that legacy and to have a part of that and be able to one day in the future hopefully carry on that legacy with Chloe and Sarah as I think it makes us stronger as a family I think it makes us all proud to be part of this legacy we want to thank the Nunley families for a great show on their Texas ranching operation you might be interested to know that they've got excellent hunting opportunities there as well visit their website for more information about this and about their annual heifer sale you can find them online at nemily brothers comm for more information about us visit our website the American Rancher calm or find us on Facebook we'd love to connect with you I'm Pam Minich to the entire American Rancher team thank you for joining us we'll see you next time you you

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Length: 24min 13sec (1453 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 11 2016