Above: Katey & Cheryl getting a calf moving out to pasture, Dr. Blair (can you believe he's in his 50's?!) How to restrain a calf for castration, and mom bonding with her baby in the cage. He's in there to move him into the barn, as she calved outside. If she bonds with him in there, she'll follow the quad into the barn and we wont have to chase her.


Above: One of the barn cats, Brad holding up a placenta. (Those bumps are called cotylidons, and they attach the placenta the the wall of the uterus.) Brad opening up the calf for the necropsy, and more of the barn cats. They were a hoot. Very affectionate.


Above: Look, it's the trachea! More kitteny cuteness, Then you can see some of the blood clots that Dr.Blair pulled out of the abdomen here, and in the last picture, you can see the heart (in the middle) the aorta comming off the bottom of it on your left (the calf's right) The lungs above and to your left (they look kind of spongy)and where the aorta disappears into the diaphragm, just below that, you see the liver. That is so cool to see for real after learning about it in class. It' so much easier to see all that in a large animal than in the small dogs and cats we've disected. I know, Eew factor for most of you, I'm sure.



Above: Almost done for the day and taking a break. Left to right, Cheryl, Kelly, Me (mwahahah, I look like such a dork, but I'm having fun, so it's all good) and Katey. ANd Cheryl modeling her boots. She forgot hers, so she wound up wearing a pair of Dr.Blair's, which were at least 3 sizes too big *chuckles* You could hear her comming from a mile away. "Clomp, Clomp, Clomp" Those bottles she's got were used to feed one of the calves some milk replacer. Poor guy, his mom rejected him, and there wasn't another cow to foster him on. Then it's Me, Katey, and Kelly at lunch, and the three of us watching the necropsy. Those sticks we're holding are for beating the cows with if they charge you or just to get them to go where you want them to. It's fun *grins*



Bubbles was definitely our favorite of the barn cats. Katey wanted to take him home, as you can see.

Well, that was it for my first shift. There will be more pictures after the second. Hopefully we'll have to pull a calf or have a c-section so I can get pictures of somthing different.

No such luck, unfortunately. So not many pictures from the second shift. As I said, didnt do much with the calves myself, this second shift. I was kind of the all purpose farm hand for the day instead. (March 30th, 2007)


Above: Ash and Megs moddeling their coveralls they night before we went to make sure they fit, A cow in the head gate so we could try and let an orphan nurse off her, and Brad and Jocelyn feeding a weak calf with the esophageal feeder.


Above: And, last but not least, Megan taking a break on one of the wheelbarrows full of fresh straw.

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