hi everyone it's Jack at Mainsgill and we've got Karl here as well so there he is
so what we're on with today is we are on with the cattle so you saw us fetch these in the other day
so we're back with these and what we're doing is we're going to get the backs clipped out and then
we're going to worm them so they're in now we're going to get the backs clipped out and worm them
so why we do this is now that the beast are in the weather's gone a bit muggy it's like
this it's good pneumonia weather this so it's a real problem you can get with beast they can get
pneumonia and once one gets it it starts going through them all and you can be in a right mess
and it can cause them to die so that is not what we want so what we're going to do is we're going
to clip the backs out so what we do is we get the clippers shave down the backs shave their heads
and this is just to allow the beast to sweat a bit better and then they don't end up getting
pneumonia well they can still get it but it reduces the chance so we're going to get on with
this now and we'll get set up and also we've got a new toy for the job so we'll have a go good good
there you go getting another one done
bit of hair on it this one
there you go
right so here we go so we got ourselves a bit of shorthorn here it is so
it should be a nice beast this one but it's a bit hairy this one so we're gonna have to
give this one a good trim you can see here so we do the head
here we go giving it a trim go on girl behave yourself
so we're doing the head on it down the back i'm going to give it a trim across here in a minute
so we can see the ear tags because all the cattle so all the cattle in the uk they all have their
own ear tags uh so each individual cow has it's own a tag so uh cow heifer bull whatever it is they
all have their own individual tags uh this heifer here i'll get its tag in a minute put it on my
list because what we're doing is as we're going through i'm ticking them all off my list to know
which ones are where because as we've been buying them out of auctions and that they've been chucked
into fields to go out for grazing these ones before they've just been fetched in so uh this is
just to show us on the list which building they're all in so for any reason we needed to find a beast
uh we knew it was but also just so we know we're all the beasts on the farm we know where
they're all at and which pens they're in so he's clipping its back now so we do the heads the backs
heads and backs do the ears like i said and then we're using closemectin down the back
to do them as a wormer and a fluke like i said before we've got ourselves a new toy
this is the new toy what you thinking so far Karl good just a good job good job there we go
so we're on hand we're on with this uh battery operated hand one so it's quite good this it's
doing the job so far have we changed battery yet not yet not yet so we've done all them beast there and we
haven't had to change battery yet and to be honest we don't even know if the battery is fully charged
when it comes because we just grabbed one out the box because we've gone and got it earlier so
we can crack on with the job so we did put one on charge just in case but we're still on with it and
also i've forgot to say the bottoms of the tails any that are a bit mucky want tidying up a bit long
just get rid of that just tidy them up so there we go so doing a nice job of them tidying them up
and uh yeah should be good should be happy in the shed so we're on with this matthew's scraping
the shed out and bedding the shed up and then they'll be able to go back in when it's all nice
and freshly done grand all right so there we go we can see now that i've trimmed its ears back looks
a completely different beast now don't it so i've done that Matthew's got the closemectin there
we go just a line down the back like that now that soaks in and that does it for worms and fluke
so there we go job done Matthew's turned up to do one just for a video
so now now he can go because he's done one so there we go that'll do grand
so that's it everyone we've got them done Karl's here somewhere as well in the dark don't know
where he's gone so we've got them done now they're all back in the shed bedded up so they seem happy
so we'll see how they do now they've been wormed and fluked see if they start bouncing so we'll
see what happens but that's them in thanks for watching make sure you hit that subscribe
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