CALF_News_December_2019_January_2020

43 CALF News • December 2019 | January 2020 • www.calfnews.net Snapchats from a Feedyard Newbie The following are tongue-in-cheek Snapchats from a feedyard newbie working at Any Yard, USA. Comments were made purely for entertainment purposes, and specifics have been left out to protect the innocent.  I have to wear safety glasses when I treat and process cattle. WTH?  Two hours in and we have 50 of 100 bawling calves sorted into steer and heifer pens.  Today was the day of psycho cattle. Spent two hours sorting 50 calves (aka Sh*t Show #1). Calf actually jumped over my horse’s butt. Probably would not con- sider this low-stress cattle handling – for the handler. Sh*t Show #2: Cattle all over the place that weren’t tagged yet. Didn’t want to move out of group, on or off the scale. A few emergency fence jumps were performed. (Both humans and cattle practiced these.)  Flimsy-looking scale gates can hold 1,300-plus pounds of pissy finished steer. Very impressed. Cowboy crew may or may not have had a few beers after work.  Remember kids: Don’t leave your horse tied out in the sun if you have a black saddle seat.  Week 3: First time I’ve been out of here before 4 p.m.! Cheers to 11-hour days!  Time to process 501 head!  12-hour days are the best. Especially when it’s dusty and windy. I think there are dust bunnies living in my eyes.  I’ve become tag-stamping boss. Have to wear headphones because putting the air compressor inside seemed like a good idea at the time.  Crawling in tight spaces today to fix roller pins under the belt. Good job for the newbie. Will smell like rotten feed for the rest of the day.  Promoted to interim feed caller while real one is in a meeting. You could say I run the yard right now.  Oh no! We were going to recall Ration 1 pens but feed truck just fed those. Going to get fired from interim feed caller. Was good while it lasted.  Interim feed truck driver over the lunch break.  Hosed off the mill all day because bins and legs leak like a sieve. Counting down the minutes to my end-of-day ice cream sandwich, sponsored by Any Yard.  Industry’s fIrst automated squeeze chute Brute Cattle equipment 402.693.2221 www.dodgemfg.com ® Visit us on the Web, facebook or twitter for video demonstrautions. A utonomous C atch-chute E lIte Brute douBle & sIngle Wedge alleys, tuBs & loadouts call today!