Wow! This was SO MUCH FUN! I LOVED watching Lytton and his family brand the cows! Ash just jumped right in and gave them their SHOTS! It was so interesting. There is like 5 or 6 things that they do to the CALVES and eveyone has their particular job and everyone just jumps in and all of it is done in like 15 seconds. I thought I would CRY when the calves cried but it wasn't bad at all. I didn't even come close to crying. And everyone at work thought the SMELL would be disgusting but I worked at a hospital for years and have smelled a LOT worse! Here is what they do:
Lytton's brothers ropes the calves
Lytton puts a red thing around their necks and makes sure they are on their side
Ash gave 2 shots to each calf
A nephew cut the ear and put a silver metal looking tag on it
Another nephew put a yellow tag on the other ear
Lyttons Dad cut the waddle and castrated them if needed and de-horned 4 of them
Lytton's brother, niece branded them
Lytton's sister in law kept the branding tools hot in the fire
Lytton's brother kept mixing the stuff for the shots
and I took pictures!!
So see...its a FAMILY AFFAIR! They branded over 200 calves and will do more this weekend!
Lytton would put this red thingy over the calves neck
Lytton wrestling the cow on its side
Ashley rushing in to give it its shots
Ashley did a great job giving shots!
This is what it would like..everyone jumped in to do their job. It went so fast!
Lytton taking his turn at actually branding the calf
Taking time out for a quick pic
I think Lytton loves the fact that Ashley loves this stuff!
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