N80
Super Member
Here are some pictures I took last weekend on my B-I-L's ranch in South Carolina. I have a cabin on some property next to his farm so I'm down there with my family most weekends. My B-I-L has three daughters. The youngest and the oldest are two of his best farm hands.....well, outside of his wife, they are his only farm hands....except when my daughter is there. My nieces can outwork most men I know. They ride as well as most cowboys and have been driving the jeeps, trucks and tractors on the farm since they were tiny. The oldest is in college now studying animal sciences and hopes to come back and run the farm. She's about 19 and was home for the holidays. The other niece is 14.
My daughter has grown up in the suburbs but is down on the farm as often as she can. She has a horse that we keep down there on the farm. She absolutely loves the work and is getting good at it. My B-I-L calls for her to come help whenever he is working cows or even working the fences. She rides very well and is a big help to him when moving herds.
In these pictures the girls are finding the newborn calves, checking them over, tagging them and then moving the calf and its cow out of the field with the expectant cows. They also castrate the male calves.
Here they are recording info about a calf and its cow. My daughter is the blonde:
Here they are tagging and giving growth hormone to a calf as mom looks on:
Here is how they get the calf and its mom into the next field:
My daughter has grown up in the suburbs but is down on the farm as often as she can. She has a horse that we keep down there on the farm. She absolutely loves the work and is getting good at it. My B-I-L calls for her to come help whenever he is working cows or even working the fences. She rides very well and is a big help to him when moving herds.
In these pictures the girls are finding the newborn calves, checking them over, tagging them and then moving the calf and its cow out of the field with the expectant cows. They also castrate the male calves.
Here they are recording info about a calf and its cow. My daughter is the blonde:
Here they are tagging and giving growth hormone to a calf as mom looks on:
Here is how they get the calf and its mom into the next field: