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Good Day

Posted on January 19, 2016January 18, 2016

A little cow work today…

vaccinatingDaniel, on the left, is giving a mineral supplement… so the girls are getting the right balance of nutrients…  Brandon is worming them, because cows eat grass where things have pooped and ingest worms which grow and then are pooped out for other things to graze and get worms… Yeah, animals can be gross!  Then they also received a shot to help prevent scours in their calves.  Scours is severe diarrhea brought on by clostridium perfringens, which although it occurs naturally in the gut of cattle and elsewhere, it can get “unbalanced” due to the calves’ immature rumen.  They then get enterotoxemia from this rapidly multiplying bacteria.  Death can sometimes happen within a couple of hours.

It’s good to vaccinate against THAT.  There are no guarantees though.

After a big lunch, we trailed them along to the other place…

trailing cowsWe dropped them where the guys had previously pitched some hay.

cows in fieldAll in all, a good day’s work!

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12 thoughts on “Good Day”

  1. Peg Bramson says:
    January 20, 2016 at 8:51 PM

    Raising cattle is a big on-going job! It will be interesting to see if your replies grow smaller after the 21st — tomorrow!

    Reply
    1. Carol says:
      January 22, 2016 at 11:01 PM

      They usually do! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Molly says:
    January 20, 2016 at 2:12 PM

    How funny that they are in a single file line heading to “the other place”…

    Reply
  3. Sandy G. says:
    January 20, 2016 at 1:39 PM

    It is so interesting and amazing for me to learn about all of the hard work, care and experience that goes into raising your crop of great beef for our tables! It makes me appreciate so much more a good steak, or a great green chile cheeseburger! Yum, thank you guys!

    Reply
  4. Della Loewen says:
    January 20, 2016 at 10:39 AM

    Love that beef!! Grilled hamburger, Sunday dinner roast, Baked steak with gravy, pepper steak and on and on and on

    Reply
  5. Marilyn O says:
    January 20, 2016 at 9:48 AM

    I am enjoying this year’s calendar – it’s hanging proudly in my kitchen to give my day a “Rim Rock Start”.

    Reply
  6. Kay Artley says:
    January 20, 2016 at 7:14 AM

    Already have one of your 2016 calendars. Thanks for the offer to enter your calendar contest. I so enjoy reading your comments and seeing your pictures. Thank you.

    Reply
  7. Sandy says:
    January 19, 2016 at 7:56 PM

    No heavy coats today? I think your cold is headed east!

    Reply
  8. Della says:
    January 19, 2016 at 3:35 PM

    I hated and feared scours as a kid, because it was so easy to lose a calf to it. I didn’t know there was a shot to help it.

    Reply
  9. Joanne says:
    January 19, 2016 at 11:29 AM

    Great photos . Glad all the cow work went well.

    Reply
  10. Liza says:
    January 19, 2016 at 10:57 AM

    Work with animals just never ends, does it!

    Reply
  11. nancy says:
    January 19, 2016 at 6:32 AM

    sounds like it is never boring at your work lol

    Reply

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Carol, Wyoming rancher

Since 2008, I’ve kept this photographic journal of life on a Wyoming ranch.  I share ranch work, my family, crafts and DIY, my English Shepherd, Bravo, and a love for this land.  Enjoy this red dirt country!

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