Emerald, Yarrawonga Rd QLD

ONE WEEK ON A CATTLEFARM

Day 1 - Monday 18th January

-wake up at 06:30am (first night completly allone... Done !!! So proud)
-be ready at 07:00am
-jump in the "oldschool-oldschool truck" & drive to the cattle & horse paddock at the farm to feed them
...coffee time
-clean the garage (giant garage) next to Colins house
...lunch time
-drive with the other "oldschool-oldschool truck" to the cattle yard (15min trip on hisb property) at the "Black Down Tablelands"
-sort 100 cattles to diffrent paddocks (you have to walk them up & open the gate for another paddock
...dinner time

Day 2 - Tuesday 19th January

-wake up same time day before (second night really allone !)
-be ready same time day before
-jump in the truck & feed the cattles & horses like.. Day before
-help Matthew (Colins Son) some cementing at the new fences around his house
...coffee time
-continue cementing work
...lunch time
-first time horse riding in Australia
= we drived to the cattle yard with the horses in the big transporter
-Collin starts to cut the ears of the cattles.. To identify them & cuts the horns
Than we were started up to walk up a group of cattles (like 30) back to the farm to another paddock. That needed 3 hours time.. One calve was very tricky & wanted to challenge me it runs away from the others & I started galopping ?! I think I needed 10 minutes to catch the calve to bring it back. Thats so difficult to explain, you can't imagine ! It was like = forward - backward - to the right - to the left (repeat that 20 times) Maybe you can imagine now
damn it ! I am done
Best job I've done at the farm !
-good good good job for today
...dinner time

Day 3 - Wednesday 20th January

-I will let "wake up" & "be ready" out if you're okay with that
-get in the truck..... You know the story
-have a look for dingos at the fields.. No dingos found
-drive to the cattle yard & sort a group of cattles
-Collin drives the big transporter from yesterday (remember we came with the horses) & I drived the "oldschool-oldschool truck" back to the farm
...coffee time
-help Matthew to continue the cementing (without me, he was lost)
...lunch time
-continue cementing
...dinner time

Day 4 - Thursday 21st January

- sooo wake up, be ready..... Blabla
- look for the cattles if some are hire (you can notice that if one cattle is jumping on the other)
- found a dingo in a trab.. it is so mean.. He tryed to get out of it but it hurts itself more and more..
...coffee time
- continue some cementing
- a guy cames to the farm to shot the dingo.. R.I.P
...lunch time
- cattle work withe the horses
...dinner time

Day 5 - Friday 22nd January

- wake up again
- cattle work at the yard (AI = artificial insemination)
- it was very exhausting & yeh... Collin has to put his "arm" in the bum off the cattle & I had to help to put a little pipe in the "gender" so yeah fun - smells good...
- after the AI some cattles get a tag in the ear
...coffee time
- finish the cementing work
- collect the rest of the dry cementing (like stones) which was lying around the fences
...lunch time
- looking for the cattles
- saw a dead big cattle.. Which was getting a calve.. (Both of them were dead) horrible..
- AI again at 4 cattles down the yard
- feeding the cattles & the horses at the farm
- I heard a dingo !! when a dingo starts shouting all the dogs are starting the same !
Sounds so great - but a bit scary
... dinner time

Day 6 - Saturday 23rd January

- get up a bit earlier because of the heat
- AI by some cattles down the yard
- feeding the bulls and horses
- look after the cattles at the fields
... lunch time
- some cattle work
- let the bulls out
- mash up for Matthews plants at the house
- gave the puppie a bath
...dinner time
- talking to Colin that I don't wanna stay
- that was all fine. Actually he whished that I stay one more week but I don't felt that comfortable there so right decision :)
- packed all my stuff

Day 7 - Sunday 24th January

- get up normal
- helping Collin to feed the cattles & horses
- left at 11am
- Collin gave me a lift to the Emerald airport - so happyRead more