Sunday, October 01, 2006

Canadian Ranches - Hamilton Farms

So coming back from Toronto i head out to stay on 2 different ranches. First one i went to was with Gale and Rob Hamilton. I stayed there for 2 nights and went out with them to Weigh, Vaccinate and watch the cow's get preg tested. It's funny to see the Vet stick his arm up the cow's bum. It was absolutely freezing that day so i rugged up with layers and gum boots and followed everybody around. I had the clipboard to write down the weights of the cow's and if they were pregnant or not. It was cool to see a Canadian Ranch in action.





So next off to Todd Vance's, Grassy Butte Ranch, this is where i had the most fun. We did cattle drive on the Saturday and branding on the Sunday.

On the Saturday i was up at the crack of dawn had breakfast and got ready to go and help out with cattle drive. I got to ride a quad, a Kawasaki V Twin 650, bloody fast. Goes up to 110km p/h, i only went up to 80km. So we go out to the top paddoch to start rounding up the cow's and the Cowboy's take off on the horses and we go off in another direction on the quads. We start riding around and we end up getting a bit lost as there was some really thick bush and i was being led by a 7 year old and a 9 year old. So we didn't help much with the first part but had fun riding until one of the quads got stuck and so we had to leave it there and so i had a kid on the back with me and there we rode for most of the day until we shifted things a bit and he got to ride one of the other quads later on. Poor kid it broke his heart. So once the cow's came down off the mountain it was my job to go ahead of them and block off drive ways and roads and make sure they go the right way. So there was alot of waiting around to do but worth it once done. The next day my arms were so sore from riding the bike. And i didn't get too cold throughout the day as we had a bottle of Jagameister to drink. So a few shots of that and i was right.



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