This involved getting 100 calves up, through the chute one at a time, giving 2 vaccinations, and tagging with an EID (electronic identification) tag. 
I had to keep up with the EID tags, record the number and the corresponding calf ear tag.
This is all for the age and source verification program so we get a premium at slaughter.
It's a good thing the score board doesn't show up here well enough to read. Suffice it to say, it's a good thing we even made it into double digits.
J has borrowed a 250 gallon water tank that fits in the back of the pick-up truck to start hauling water to fill the 500+ gallon tire troughs up.
We vaccinated and dewormed the cows,
vaccinated,
implanted,
and castrated the calves.
With V and E's help, we worked 46 cows/heifers, and 35 calves in 3 hours.
At least the girls, plus friend J, were able to enjoy the sleds they got for Christmas last year and never got to use.
The wind is supposed to pick up to >20 mph. I'm glad J has gotten a lot of wood.
I guess it's time to do away with the pumpkins and start on Christmas.
I forgot to take her in yesterday for a bath so I sprayed her with doggy cologne, brushed her well and took hand sanitiser for any of the kids that petted her to use. Of course all 100+ students petted, hugged, and rolled on the floor with her. The nurse sharing the same room requested she not be in with the dog next year because her plastic baby doll wasn't getting the same attention.
By 8:30 they decided to cancel school. Of coarse this was the time that it stopped snowing.
We bought V's from a neighbor and picked him up today. He weighs 700 pounds.
J picked E's out of our herd. He has been feeding him separate from the ones going out west.
They each have a Hereford heifer to show also. The 5th one at the feed trough is a heifer we are feeding for a beef. As you can see we had a little rain. It had been extremely dry lately so we're not complaining about the mud.
Now I need to finish the pathway. I'm thinking about some type of stepping stone path with pea gravel filling in, retained by the plastic landscape edging.
Once they get use to this the cattle act pretty crazy. When they see J they rush to the fence. Therefore, we have to move them out of the field before he can move the fence, then let them back in.
They are getting to the point where I don't even scare them anymore. 
Since we live so far off the road I didn't bother with a Jack-O-Lantern this year, but I am still enjoying the bright orange colors.
J has to haul out 400 pounds of feed in his trusty wheelbarrow. (It's the same one I remember watching my father mix batch after batch of cement in to build rock walls. And carry me around in the yard after picking up leaves in the fall.)
He then pours it into the troughs 50 pounds at a time.
It looks like most are starting to take to it pretty well.
J dug the post holes for me today. I hope to start on the top tomorrow.
I don't have a picture that does justice to the before, but suffice it to say a lot of twine was involved.
Now we have several sorting pens, a loading alley, and a covered head gate. I think things will run smoother the next time we have to work the cattle here.
J had to make 2 trips to bring the horses since we only have a 3 horse trailer. This is how we waited on him to get Lady from his dad's house.
This was a particularly rocky section of the trail. E no longer apologizes to Pep for making her go across rough ground.
V took the lead with Jessica Rabbit and followed by J for most of the ride. I tried to keep Thumper behind E so she wouldn't be by herself too much.
After I pulled out a bunch a annuals, raked and swept, I found him in this mess.
He enjoys a variety of different water sources. Here he is drinking from a tire water trough.
He also likes to try and annoy Emma every chance he gets.
