tncattle
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Well I finally got to work some cattle (cows) today for the first time. A long time family friend's dad has been raising Black Angus for 25 years. I honestly didn't do much but watch and just help herd into the chute. I might not be saying this right but they were giving them a shot of some kind of hormone and putting something in them (vaginally) to trick into heat? Again, I'm not sure. Also, they were changing ear tags on some and we tagged a young calf that they had missed the other day. I never knew a calf could bawl so loud when you tag his ear. My first impression working with cattle was they are big and strong. They seem to do whatever the lead cow is doing. The people I was working with were never rough on them or mean to them, they were actually patient with them I thought. When they wanted them to move on in the chute to the catch chute they just tapped them a little or gave their tail a little twist. They also AI one of the cows, how in the world do you ever know what your feeling for. The man said it went good, took about 5 minutes. I enjoyed the whole morning, seriously.