Tagging, Punching and Branding (2011-05-02)

Finally I could sleep in today, because we had breakfast at 7 o’clock. Our main job was to draft and process the cattle today. We started with the latter and worked with the calves. I put their ear-tag in, punching two gaps in the other ear and branded them with the station-mark and birth year. Ben also taught me how to castrate a bull, but we haven’t had any bulls left on which I could practise, …