One Week On A Cattle Farm

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 = 🚀➡️↘️⬅️↙️↖️↗️⏬⏫🔁🔁🔁⏮⏮⏮⏮↪️🔄↔️↕️↩️⏬⬅️⬅️⬅️⬅️⬅️⬅️⬅️⬅️🚩
(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 happy 🙈😍😍😍Read more