Monday morning, bright and early, I headed out to the barns for Show Cattle team. There was only me and another girl that are both RAs and were on the team last year together that were working the morning shift. We had to catch and halter 10 heifers and 2 bulls, none of which had been touched yet. We would open the gate and they would all stare at us and when we made one move they would all go running the other direction. Lets just say we had our work cut out for us.
It took us a little over an hour to get all the calves caught and tied up. In the process we had a little barn rodeo going as we would get the calves in a corner and then try and "fish" up a calf and once we got the halter on we would drop the show stick and grab onto the lead as we prepared for impact and being dragged through the pen. All of them went running in circles, mooing, kicking and just plan old being difficult.
Cris, the barn manager and head of the team, had to come in for assistance once or twice
My partner in rounding up these trouble makers, Katie.
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