T4 Cattle co

Spent some time a few years ago, 10 actually, with the Bidegain family who owns and operates T4 Cattle Co, out of Montoya, New Mexico. Now they´re putting together a book about the familys history and using several of the pics I took for them, the book is at the binders and I´m eagerly awaiting the final result!





The T4 ranch was established in 1902 and run about 2.500 mother cows on close to 200.000 acres.




The T4 relies on hard-working cow horses, using them to drag calves to the fire, sort pairs and round up cattle in the fall.


They have been breeding Quarter Horses continuously since 1942. Its broodmare band consists of mares by either Cardinals Hired Hand or Young Gun. The T4 ranch stallion, Shorty Mio, is by Shorty Lena and out of Little Tassa Mia, by Freckles Playboy.










Phil & Lauri purchased “Mio” as a yearling and a few years later, they sent him to reined cow horse trainer Ted Robinson, who showed the horse at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity in 2004.

During the preliminaries, Mio scored a 218 in the herd work and a 214 in the reining, but tough luck in the fence work kept him from advancing to the final round. After his brief show career, the stallion returned to the ranch to handle herd sire duties.

Great people the Bidegains and I´m really happy I could help them out with the pics.