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You’re the 5th generation Perkins, and your son took the tour of Perkinsville 85,000 acres with us. Such a young age, and he is acutely aware of the ranch operations. How did you get him involved with the day to day oper- ations? Are your other children involved with the oper- ations as well? My kids love the ranch life and they are very proud of their family name and our brand. My oldest Daughter marks all of our belongings with our family brand instead of her first name. I got them into the ranch, I think just by taking them with me all the time when they were little.


Casey and I have four kids. Baylee is the oldest and she is 12. Baylee is at the age where she helps with everything. She has her own horse and helps me gather cattle. She is also our main brander now. My Mom Cyndy, and Aunt Debbie were always our head branders, but they kinda passed that responsibility down to Baylee. Baylee takes a lot of pride in her brand and does her best to put the brand on the same spot, and even if possible, with every calf. She does an excellent job.


My Boy Mark, who is mentioned in the question, is 8. He loves the ranch just as much as his Sister. He is at the age to help me do most stuff. He also rides horses and helps us to gather cat- tle and work them. It’ll be 10 o’clock at night, and if he doesn’t have school the next day, he will stay up just to go help me turn off the generator, which we use to pump water to the cattle. During brandings, Mark will assist the person castrating the bull calves, and he even holds down the smaller calves.


Great-Grandfather, Marion Nicholas, was a cattle man who knew each cow by name. He made many improvements on the ranch and was a lion hunter. My Grandfather “Papa”, continued on the ranching tradition and could fix almost anything mechanical. He was on the school board, was a Captain in the army and was teaching my Uncle Mike to continue the ranch. Mike passed at an early age, and my Uncle Danny and Aunt Lyn moved to this area and manage the day to day operations. Papa taught me honesty and ranching. As you can tell, I have generations of leader before me. I would say that morals are something that is instilled in the Perkins family at a young age. Things as little as, you don’t eat with your hat on and you stand when you shake someone’s hand. I was raised in a Christian home and at- tended church every Sunday. We pray before every meal. It doesn’t matter if we are in our home or at a fast food restaurant; no matter what, we take time to thank the Lord for what we have. Hard work, responsibility, honesty and integrity are just a few of the values I believe my family have instilled in me.


Taylar is my two year old, so she doesn’t do a lot yet. She will go with me when I haul water, check cattle, put out salt or fix fence. She keeps me good company and when I ask if “she wants to go help daddy” she gets very excited and will respond with, “check moo cows?” Then she throws her little cowboy boots on and spends all day on the ranch with me.


Clay is my youngest and he is 8 months. I don’t think we’ll have any problem getting him into ranching. He already goes with us just to check cattle or turn off the generator. I think it will just fall into his lap like it did the rest of the kids. Only time will tell.


Ranching today is changing, would you share with our readers how the cattle are processed now? I think ranching for the most part is still the same. I’m not sure how other outfits do it, but we still work cattle on horseback, (continued on page 12)


HORSE & AG MAGAZINE I AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2018 11


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