My father and other lunatics near his farm has had the bright idea to start a hobby farming into cattle
For the past 4 months they've been building a dipping kraal, or a medicine application bead/holding, which is just basically a pre-built fence or passage where cattle/cows/goats/bucks or any other form of domesticated bovines are herded through, preferably one-by-one to apply veterinary care,
like spraying their fur with anti-lice or anti-parasite poison, or injecting them with vaccinations or whatever the particular situation requires.
This dipping passage system, can be technologically sophisticated
or locally rurally primitive - as has been done 100 years ago
https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/farming-basics/how-to-livestock/a-career-in-veterinary-nursing/
Large commercial farmers can even have hardcore systems to separate cattle into groups while applying medication, prior to selling for auctions or butcheries
THere's even companies which build custom, but pre-fabricated pens and dipping-passages which have proven to be very effective for commercial farmers
all looks very complicated, but what it boils down to is to aid in the driving on of domesticated animals, without hurting cattle or ranchers themselves, while also leaving easy access to the animals for medication care. There is no definitive surefire method or structure, they are as variable as there are farmers and stock.
Some act as multi-purpose structures, where once vaccinated, cattle are thenafter driven onto ramps, up to transportation trucks
which again can vary dramatically, from humble specialized trailers, capable of being pulled by any pick-up truck with sufficient power, to gargantuan commercial grade trucks capable of transporting a 100 bastards at once
Anyways, the nutjobs near my father's farm had started to construct a homemade dipping kraal/passage, by using manual labour and a generator bolted onto an shopping trolley's wheels! (this was from a month ago)
The dipping enclosure were to have wooden beams with giant rubber strip lengths surrounding the enclosure, to protect the cattle from harming themselves when they bump into the wooden beams, a the soft rubber softens the blow like the softened corners of a wrestling ring.
These giant rubber strips were pulled tight around the wooden beams with a specialized fence-wire pulling tool, which utilized leverage onto chains with a clamped with each segment
This "Draadtrekker" or "Wire-Puller" has this teethed mechanism, to consecutively "climb" onto a chain, to pull a wire clamped onto it's tail end, and uses leverage to strengthen the pull onto each consecutive chain link. It's operation is very hard to describe into words. But it basically "climbs" onto the chain, with the teeth hooks.
It's soft of like like a ratchet wrench type device but not really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(device)
The idea is to pull a wire or other material as taut as possible, to strengthen the wire's structure, usually for farm fences.
Saturday and Yesterday, my father had discovered that the 6 beeste had severe eye infections, to the degree that they were borderline blind. Their eyes were swollen and inflamed, and the cause uncertain - as they are supposed to be the type of local Safrican breed hardened against this climate and its parasites and illnesses. Regardless the cattle were really rough looking
TTheir eyes so swollen that they could barely see more than a few meters ahead of themselves.
One cow which was so angsty and evasive, literally ran away from my father in panic as it could not recognize my father - mistaking him from some other predator or whatever, despite usually running at speed whenever my father appears in the veld towards him, because my parents regularly feed them lettuce and carrots to make them used to humanity
This brought alarms to everyone, and soon he had called me from across the farm with dogshit 3rd world cellphone signal - i only noticed a "missed-call" in my SMS, and realized my father's intention. I had to run in 33 degree heat and gather the two Lesotho laborers currently building the unfinished kraal, because the 6th cow was being so evasive, that it would require a multi-man concerted effort, to corral this beest into the dipping passage, in order to closely inspect wtf was wrong with it.
after lots of sweating we managed to not just gather the blind-beest, but also the other 5 beeste, into the unfinished, but luckily fully enclosed kraal, i had to run like hooligan and ram pipes into the exit of the dipping passage , to block off the exit, and ensure the 6 cattle corralled into the dipping passage, would not just exit like water from a funnel so tired.
Then once they were within the kraal, structure we could clearly see at point blank, just how fricked up their eyes were. All 6 had problems, 3 of them had tears running down the sides of their faces endlesslly - it appeared that they had great aggravated suffering.
To compound this horror and bad luck, my father had enlisted the services of a farm animal vet, but he had decline to doctor them for eye and other parasite related shit, because he had stated that it was useless to apply medicine before symptoms showed well now 2 weeks later we were all staring at blind 6 cattle with dark black tear streaks in obvious suffering.
We were all tired from the corralling efforts in a humid crushing 33 degree heat (which is nothing i know compared to the 40 degree heat in actually hot places in the country), so we decided to start lunch while my father made a decision.
We made boiled eggs and noodles, and my mother shared the same for the 2 Lesotho men (many SA employers can be ruthless and let men work without break in the sun, nor ever give them food)
After lunch my father had decided, we cannot wait even a week for a vet to come again, and that likely if these cattle were not treated, they could form permanent cataract-like debilitating ailments, or just become blind. He still had eye-treating medicine stored in his shed. And OH BOY did i not yet realize what we were in for!!
The next stage was to corral the 6 cattle from the outer kraal, into the dipping funnel passage, and to our woes, the structure was not yet finished, additionally the 6 cattle were spooky and uncooperative and we found it impossible to fricking separate them, thus we were only capable of herding all 6 into the funnel passage at once, so that they were squashed tightly.
This was not done for the sake of animal abuse, but because it was decided if we did not treat these animals here and now, blindness would follow - and we were without all the cowtools we needed, the passage was unfinished and we had not fricking vet with us.
Ironically, the fact that the cattle had squashed themselves so tightly, meant that they could not bump their heads in erratic spontaneous movements and hurt themselves.
We were supposed to have a headclamp ordered, but it was still a city away and had not yet been delivered, but this was an emergency, and again we could not fricking wait
Thus we had to also make to with the only pitiful rope we had - which the Lesotho men tied around the nearest wooden beam, and then the horns/mouth of the specific cattle we wanted to treat, in order to keep their heads still and unmoving - and once again this was not done for the sake of animal cruelty
Cattle/cows are unbelievably strong. You often see videos of city-slickers and people who've never encountered wild animals or even domesticated farm animals before and tourists dangerously approach large animals into their comfort-zone, only to get mauled/hooved and their body battered.
Cattle have necks with the thickness and strength of ten men's arms - i've seen before how careless ranchers or farmhands have their hands crushed and their bones splintered from just one spontaneous movement of a cow's head, pinning a man's hand next to a wooden bean, or alternatively bending backwards every fricking digit of a man's fingers because the usually docile and pleasant cow gets spooked and have no idea of their own strength compared to a human's, and unintentionally can cause tremendous bodily harm to its owners. Just one random jerk of an unaggressive cow's head can gore the arm of a reckless man.
The 6 cattle were stuffed and jampacked into the funnel dipping passage, and thus we placed two pipes at the entrace to the passage to block them in! i had to literally push the last cow in with all the force of my strength along with the two Lesotho men, while a 3rd pushed in pipes between the wooden beams to lock them inside!!!
From here on out we had to apply two types of medicine (which i cant spell or pronounce): One was a bottle of teardrop type medicine which was applied by lifting up the lids of the target cattle, and squeezing it onto the area of irritation/inflammation. The 2nd was an injection via needle which, as per the instruction of the vet, had to be injected into the eyelids of the cow!!!! But a cow's eyelids are very thick and filled with blood-vessels, and much larger when compared to a human's
As you guys can imagine, no animal likes to have their fricking eyeballs messed with and manipulated, especially after they are hurting and highly irritated by whatever infected it, like a human's red-eye.
This was why we had been forced to stabilize the cattle's head, by tying it up, lest it hurt itself or us, in it's panic or pain.
Of course i personally was too much of a b-word butt wimp to personally handle the medicine and eyeball needle shit, so i balked at that part but my father is giga hardcore and wen to great lengths to be gentle and shit.
finally after like 40 minutes, the poor cattle could dazedly and with stiff legs get the frick out of the cramped dipping funnel
we pulled out the pipes blocking the funnel exit, and they skedaddled out of there
what a nightmare
slice of life shit
Some mielie/maize bread baked by mother next to braai (open fire)
giant unused ordinance - from WW1, WW2 and 1899 boer war.
sister feeding cattle lettuce and carrots
Khoisan maize/corn/wheat giant mortal and pestle stones - smooth stones used to grind any edible grain or mielies into food capable of being baked into starch or other food like pap
im not nearly as cool as that other dramatard which built his whole fricking porch, but hopefully some of you found this at least somewhat mildly amusing
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@Holly_Jolly_Kong this is your future And probably @AltAccountOkapi's fantasy
And did you really just post a pic of your sisters butt to rDrama
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@kaamrev hook this brother up
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She's a cutie
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Manual laborers and not one male butt crack to be seen?
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Blkpepo don't ventilate dey asscrack.
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This is what my circumcision camp will look like when I finally get my charity up and running. Just replace the livestock with Sneedmen
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Noooooooooo
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There's a youtube niche for videos of cutting the hooves of cows/donkeys/horses that use all of this type of machinery, you might enjoy watching a clip or two. The needle in the eyes would be hard for me too. Anyway 10/10 premier Kaamrev post here. You'd included that same ordinance before, right? Or is it a different one?
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HoofGP is chicken noodle soup for the soul
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He can't watch videos. He doesn't have enough internet.
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Most Pinoys have prepaid wifi where you have to purchase a certain amount of data for a set fee. It's rough out here for thirdies.
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Cows are awesome. I used to live in Grahamstown where cows roam the streets freely and they were always extremely chilled except when they decide to stroll onto the road and just stand there.
It looks quite similar to jeqe that BIPOCs cook.
https://www.bryanbraun.com/2012/05/20/jeqe-recipe/
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Yt nonsense
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They just oreo style dunk sheep into the disinfectant
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10/10. Hope the cattle recovers quickly.
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temple grandin shit
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My dad has virtually the exact same set up lmao
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@kaamrev Will do next time i'm at his shop
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Darn that sounds like an adventure trying to get those cows to stay. Hopefully they enjoyed the treat after at least.
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now THIS is an effort post
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You guys seem like a nice family.
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@Z watched a seventy year old man and bumbling idiot put a pre-fab cattle chute up in less than 1 hour on Clarksons Farm.
What the frick is going on in South Africa that it takes you 4 months? No wonder it's teetering on the verge of complete failure.
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he's doing it as a hobby, he has too work for a corporation during the weeks in the big city, he goes too his farm, a 3 hour ride away every saturday, and works as much as could be feasible over the course of 16 weeks, alongside all the rest of general maintenence work that has too be done. He's no developer, only a handyman self taught with many cowtools.
Every weekend, there were incremental efforts done, until finally the wooden pole beams could be planted into the solid rock ground, which had too be bored through with manual labeour with a solid iron large pestle tool, and then dug with spade - these holes alone took great effort and time. The wooden beams and and rubber strips also took their respective efforts, in a place where there exists no electricity, unless brought with a generator.
The pre-fab shit is very expensive, all of these components from wooden beams, too drill screws through the rubber bands, were substantially cheaper, as pre-fab is very costly for a non-commercial farming project, let alone the hiring of someone who's an expert too install such structure.
I've seen that video you refer to, yet the circumstances are vastly different
downmarseyd for shittalking @kaamrev's father
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this BIPOC chudded @Z for the most vanilla light bants @Z have ever seen. @Z think you're adjacency too the south african blacks has caused their immense sensitivities too rub off on you.
as for you're comment, wow you used wood, wow you used a big tool, wow there was a spade involved and oh nooo digging is really hard. Cope cope and cope lmao. Just say you guys did it slowly over time because it wasn't really a priority build you r-slur.
If @Z was as bad at building little wooden fences as you're dad @Z may be inclined too admit "I LOVE SUCKING PEEPEE" luckily @Z is not, however!
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A second chudding has hit the @Z . @Z may have to launch a full scale invasion in to SA to take down this terrorist
@kaamrev whats your dads @ I will send him the vid Jeremy Clarkson putting up a cattle chute so next time he needs one he knows how to do it properly and maybe once he's been made aware he may be willing to admit defeat and say "I LOVE SUCKING PEEPEE" I would, of course, never force anyone to say such a thing it would be entirely by free will.
Edit:
the iron dome works
!METASHIT
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Kammy chuds people he doesn't like personally, not people who act chudy
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obviously I don't think he mistook be for being a chud and I don't think he dislikes me either. this is only a small scale Jewish-Boer skirmish (is @kaamrev actually a boer? I dont know this lore very well) there will probably be a ceasefire announced soon especially if he publicly admits that he likes to say "i love sucking peepee" as there has been no word on the South African side since my first strike (the retaliation chudding) was initiated.
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When you look in the mirror, can you tell that you're stupid?
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Youre a brave man to post your sister.
Also tell her to lose 10-15kg and she can get a place in my wooden shack
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Why?
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Shes too pudgy to be worthy of my pipebomb
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@kaamrev
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How do you deal with making a connection with something you eat? Id never have the heart to eat my chikens but i fricked up plenty of pheasants.
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Ok but why do you stab them in the eyes?
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poor cows! this was a really interesting post. on a tangentially related note- are you interested in human medicine as well? this kind of reminds me of a recent post on medizzy where a guy had to be intubated THROUGH HIS EYE
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Cow BDSM looks like fun!
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Glad you got through it. I still remember carving fungal infected hooves off sheep, it's not fun for either of you but the sheep are so much better off for it shortly after.
Hope all the cows come through it ok, and aren't too spooked by it all.
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Thanks
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I read 1/10 and got bored but sounds fun! Keep us posted!
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hope it died
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you gave them the mrna jab?
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Snapshots:
https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/farming-basics/how-to-livestock/a-career-in-veterinary-nursing/:
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https://www.facebook.com/taltec.co.za/posts/tal-tec-se-sirkel-drukkraal-uitleg-is-n-kraal-om-jou-beeswerk-maklik-en-vinnig-t/4105574749474093/:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(device):
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I don't get it
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