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Moo 2: The Calfening
Aug. 26th, 2011 10:46 pmI just got off a 24 hour shift that, somehow, ended up being more than 24 hours.
Nothing of any interest happened for the first 12 hours or so. At around 8am today, one of the heifers went into labor. She didn't show any signs of actually having the calf until noon. We then spent a considerable amount of time chasing her into a pen, and an embarrassing amount of time actually pulling the calf.
It was a bull -- our first pull of the season was also our first male.
My shift officially ended at 6, but I had to stick around and help feed, check the previous week's calves for infection, and clean up. I finally got home around 8:30.
I get to do this all again on Monday. Hooray.
Nothing of any interest happened for the first 12 hours or so. At around 8am today, one of the heifers went into labor. She didn't show any signs of actually having the calf until noon. We then spent a considerable amount of time chasing her into a pen, and an embarrassing amount of time actually pulling the calf.
It was a bull -- our first pull of the season was also our first male.
My shift officially ended at 6, but I had to stick around and help feed, check the previous week's calves for infection, and clean up. I finally got home around 8:30.
I get to do this all again on Monday. Hooray.
