The holsteins are the renter's girls, he also has brown swiss and jersey in there as well. The pic of these two old girls were being dried up before being shipped to wherever they go. He also threw in a bunch of heifers with these old gals.
Thanks, its good to be back. :D
Edit: I forgot to add that working at the vet clinic is pretty fun, first day on the job I had to go out on call with the vet to do a C-section on a whoopsie heifer (live bull calf, must've weighed 90 lbs), and again to another place to help castrate a couple yearling colts. I seen and helped with a few appointments on semen testing bulls, seen and helped with another C-section on yet another whoopsie heifer (pulled out a dead calf, calf must've died while it was being pulled out), helped with castrating a steer that had an swollen and infected scrotum that had to be surgically removed (by putting the poor steer under; the vet had castrated him a couple weeks ago and quizzed us on who should be paying for this surgery on the steer: him or the owner. Obviously it should be him [the vet] that should pay for it, because of the infection that resulted from the castration previously.)
A few weeks ago I had to go out on call with the vet to help pull a calf from a black-baldy cow, had to help chase her in from the pasture and put her in the barn with the poorest lighting conditions and no headgate to speak of. The vet had to rope her with a lariat and tie her to a post and hold her there. He had a tough time getting the calf out because one, she was moving around a lot (like I said, no head gate or squeeze to speak of, just restraint by the head) and having her contractions, two he couldn't see worth a darn, three the calf was stiff and dead (been dead for 12 hours), four the calf was in the worst position ever: head down and forefeet pointed to the cow's front, and five the cow was dry (no amniotic fluid in the uterus). The only way we could get the calf out was to cut the head off, then work the forefeet forward and up. The blood from the calf helped lubricate things for him. Two hours later with much blood and sweat, we finally got the headless calf out.
Those are just a few of the stories I have from working there. I also get the duty of washing floors, feeding animals and cleaning out kennels, washing surgical instruments, etc. I could go on...
