implanting steers
Today at 8am I was in a cattle barn shoving hormone implants into the ears of steers. all of you with your fancy new desk jobs and indoor work are jealous, i know. But don't fret. It was cold, there was blood, there was shit, there was snot. Basically we took this piercing gun that had 10 rounds of hormone implants jammed it between the skin and the cartiledge on the ear of every steer weighing less than 1000lbs (not many) pulled a trigger and were done. sounds easy right? ha. I shoved the needle completely through the ear on my steer and everytime anyone got through the first layer of skin the steer would jump and thrash around. granted they were in a headgate (chute type thing that holds the animal's head in place allowing the human to do things to it) so they couldn't go far forward or back, but the headgate doesn't do a whole lot for the up and down motion of the animal... think bull riding. so that was exciting. but mostly it was cold and one girl got covered in blood.
I'm still cold actually. and when i came into my usual time killing spot, the prairie lounge, i found there was a guy in hunting boots and camo pants watching some opera on his computer without head phones. so, i've been listening to that for at least an hour. then he dropped his computer and it stopped, but now it sounds like he's fixed it so the opera is on again. I don't know why people think it's okay to listen to stuff without headphones...i didn't realize headphones were so expensive and hard to come by. and it looks like he has a stack of more DVDs waiting to be played... this might be a long afternoon.
I'm still cold actually. and when i came into my usual time killing spot, the prairie lounge, i found there was a guy in hunting boots and camo pants watching some opera on his computer without head phones. so, i've been listening to that for at least an hour. then he dropped his computer and it stopped, but now it sounds like he's fixed it so the opera is on again. I don't know why people think it's okay to listen to stuff without headphones...i didn't realize headphones were so expensive and hard to come by. and it looks like he has a stack of more DVDs waiting to be played... this might be a long afternoon.