I woke up at 5:30 in the morning because apparently that's when it gets light out in NY. I slept in a little bit longer, then got up and got ready for the day. Got to work at 7 with Summer. Learned how to punch in.
TJ took me around to the Cattle Shack and I got to see a little calf that was born within a few hours of us getting there. I saw the reject cows in field 64, and I got to go see the bulls before we had to go back up to the Cattle Shack to move Heifers.
The Heifer moving was really interesting. We started by bringing them all into a big round pen. Then we sorted the babies to be weened and the mommas. The mommas went through first. Some of them got pregnancy checks and then they were either put into a pen to be moved to field 33 or a pen to be moved to field 64 and a few were just let back out into the area they were originally in. After that, we brought all the calves to be weened. They got nose bands to keep them from drinking any milk and some of them got tetnas shots or castrated and then they were turned back into their original field.
After this we brought all the cows to be moved to their respective fields. They were very happy to be trailered and brought to greener grass. The last thing that I did today was sort through the rest of the cows that had been in another field. Some of them had infections, so TJ taught me how to give them fever reducing and infection fighting shots in their neck. It was kind of intimidating at first because I didn't want to stick a needle in them, but then it was sort of fun! I felt like a vet. We also tagged some of the new babies including my favorite. B2 is a little Brama that looks like a bunny rabbit. I don't care what his name is, I'm going to call him bunny. His ears just flop all over the place when he runs and it's totally cute. I'll try to take a picture of him tomorrow if I get the chance.
That's all for now!
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