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Work Day at Hillcrest Farms

October 5th I went to help Ronald Harris at Hillcrest Farms. He had an ambitious day planned for us. Glen, his son Chris, Ronald and I needed to gather 60 Reg Black Angus cows and separate them from their 39 calves so we could vaccinate, de-worm, and tattoo the calves. We used three trucks to slowly move the herd from the bottom up to a 10 acre field then we urged them from there to a five acre paddock and then on into the lot where the handling facilities are located.  We released the cows after we got the separation process completed and when we were done with the calves we released them back to their mothers.  Everything went pretty smooth with no cows or calves trying to fight us or get away.  We were stated by 8:15 a.m. and finished up just a little after noon. Ronald's wife, Bonnie had a huge meal fixed for us when we were finished and we chowed down as we were hot, hungry, tired and thirsty.

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