Three Generations of Kessi's
are working yearling cattle today...
The calves will receive fly tags...
vaccinations...
Ruby Jean
She is a replacement heifer
Shasta
also a replacement heifer
We have great help today...
She is learning to fill syringes and give vaccinations
Filling Ear Tag Pliers and
filling syringes
Do you remember Ollie?
Here is Ollie with his mama....Spring 2018
Ollie was our first calf born last year.
This is Ollie today.....One Year Old
These black calves won't be a year old
until the end of May to early June...
We are freeze branding today:
The calves don't mind a bit...
We are enjoying the last of the spring blooms:
Tulips in the front yard...
We are done working the yearling cattle.
Next month we will work the
cows and new spring calves.
Enjoy the video: Yearling Cattle
What a lovely, busy day on the farm!! Your cows always look so healthy, it is obvious that Cowboy takes really good care of the herd. I've never seen freeze branding before...looks so much easier on the heifers than the traditional hot branding. When I helped with branding/inculcating/castrating on a farm one fall, we also had to give them some oral medication using a caulking gun! That was a fun day, especially when they handed me the Rocky Mountain Oysters to take to the house to be cooked for breakfast. I think I just had toast that morning!!! So nice to have family to help with the busy days like this one was.
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