This is a video I took while sitting in Joey's pickup. Joey was tagging calves that were just a day old. Tagging calves means that Joey is placing an identification tag in the calf's ear. The tag has many different meanings: tag in the right or left ear indicates sex of the calf, color of the tag indicates breed of the sire (dad), number on the tag indicates dam (mom), small name above the number indicates the specific name of the sire, and birth date is on the back of the tag. All the information is used to evaluate the dam and sire at time of weaning.
As Joey tagged the baby calf, the momma cow was moving closer to make sure Joey knew his time with the calf was up.
I like this photo because of Joey's look after he tagged the calf. It is as if Joey was looking back to survey the scene.
Before we left to tag calves, Joey made the tags in the nursery. He used a small grinder to grind off the top layer of the tag to expose the white part.
3 comments:
Is this a new reality show, "Adventures of the Cattleman"?
MK, you know there are some more entertaining moments in in the life of a cattleman during calving season. Like when he jumps out of the truck and steps in a cowpie then does a face plant. Or when the heifer/cow gets angry with the cattleman and the only place he has to hide is on the other side of a stone post.
Ok MK...I just watched your video of Joey tagging the calf and I need him to be more gentle with the calves when he's tagging them. Give em a little rub on the head, tag and then a pat on the back. They're just babies. Yes I realize he does this a 1000 times...but that calf had no idea what hit him....Be nice Joey!!
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