Well, I've officially survived my first Hollenbeck branding! PHEW! Brandings are like social gatherings around here, you call all your friends and family and hope enough show up to wrestle some calves. Today I learned a few lessons of branding.
1. COWS ARE LOUD. When you sort out the cows from their babies they get a little pissed, as you can imagine being separated from your child it might make you raise your voice a tad.
2. Find yourself a job or get out of the way. Between the cows, calves, people, hot branding irons, vaccines, ropes, horses and trucks it causes a commotion. I wasn't immediately given something to do, so I grabbed a camera and took it upon myself to be the very important image documenter. Its a hard job, but someone had to do it. In my quest of being the best branding photographer I almost got branded, run over, and vaccinated.
3. Its totally normal and highly recommended to drink beer all day long. (my kind of Sunday)
4. Its totally normal and highly recommended to eat testicles all day long.
and now a few pictures from the day (you know, my job).
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| directing traffic |
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| the bigger calves took the whole village |
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| They start the help young |
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| Charlie and Carlos |
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| Proof that I attempted to help |
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