Hey guys so a quick update for you I start my first day of work at my permant barn tomorrow, I had a really fun week in training although I got bangged up quite a bit..... Monday was the first day, and I worked every day until Friday, we got to do lots of different things including heat check, sow treatments (shots for the sows), Processing (castration, iron shot and tail docking), chorring rooms, loading weaned piglets onto the wean truck, moving sows into their new room, and lots of other fun things, there were two really interesting things that I saw while I was there at the training barn, the more normal one was a sow that aborted, she aborted 3 piglets at roughly 60 days into gestation so they were just very small piglets.... and the second was the weridest..... it was a two headed pig! It had 2 snouts and 3 eyes it had just been born, it was euthanized because it wouldn't have lasted long and it shouldn't have to suffer, it was really cool to see it though, it doesn't happen to often but it does happen sometimes..... anyways I have work on Monday and Tuesday this week and then Wednesday through Friday Roni and I will be on summer trip, it will be my second year going on summer trip im hoping this year is as fun as last year :) Also this week Chez came over for awhile and we all hung out and watched tv, and then Friday night I went to the fair and got to hang out with Wiese and her boyfriend we watched the trailer races, which are always a blast, our mugger for the Wild Horse Race Team was driving in it he got to the feature race but his truck broke down, it had flames comming out on the bottom so I was kind of nervous for a bit but then all it did was sit there and smoke, then after that we went up and rode some rides together I about made both of them sick on the dizzy dragons cause I spin so fast, then I got her to go on the loopo planes and she screamed so loud! Eventually they got headed home and I met up with another friend who also happens to be names Alesha we hung out and listend to the band that was playing and had a good time then it was getting pretty late and it was time to head home..... then Saturday I went with my grandma for awhile to the fair, Roni and I played the coin dozzer game that I love, anyways today I didn't do much just because I have been so busy and worked a lot so I just relaxed today..... Anyways here are the pictures of how banged up I am and a short explination of why.....
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| These are bruises from trying to get the sows to stand up, each day you have to stand the sows up to make sure they are healthy and their legs are okay, sometimes you gotta give them a couple good pats to get them to get up, it works best if you pat them up on their sholders, and I can't reach their sholders very well because im so short so when I go to pat their sholders I accidentally hit my arm againsed the side of the farrowing crates..... |
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| This is more bruises from my arm hitting againsed the stalls while trying to get the sows up, when you have to get almost 40 sows up you accidently bang your arms a lot.... |
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| these are from me learning forward on the sows butt bars over and over again |
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| I pinched my thumb in one of the sows butt bars when I was closing it...... |
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| I have bruises from leaning over on the pannels over and over again on both of my thighs.... |
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More bruises same as above
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