Has anyone ever worked in livestock farm or even volunteered, ?

[Kelly6]

If so, then what duties did you do?

[purplepoppy]

I'm a farmer. Most of the practical work is monitoring grow rates and general wellbeing. There's sorting them our to split into different groups and moving to different pastures/feed regimes. Of course there's the daily feeding and seasonal work like lambing time and shearing. Basically keep them healthy happy and help them pile on the pounds and hope prices are high on market days.

[Iron_Man]

That’s awesome. We have something in common. We used to manage horses at the family campground. In North Carolina, I would go there every summer as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Getting sperm from horses

[Kelly6]

lol. 😂😂😂

[Paige90]

How do you get sperm from horses?

[Opinion Owner]

@Paige90
Sperm is collected from a stallion using a "breeding phantom" (a padded dummy) or a "jump mare" to encourage ejaculation, which is then collected in a special artificial vagina. After collection, the semen is immediately processed and evaluated for volume, concentration, motility, and morphology. For horses that cannot be bred this way, semen can also be harvested from the epididymis after death or castration.

[Kelly6]

Worker similar once

[Opinion Owner]

How @kelly6

[Kelly6]

Just DM

[Kelly6]

Will explain in DM

[Paul_in_Indy]

I have assisted with this from bulls —and I’ve inseminated cows. It’s fascinating stuff.

[ArrowheadSW]

@Opinion owner I've heard of this but I never heard how it is "collected". What kind of volume did they get after the stallion "finishes"? I would imagine they would only do this with the more "prize" type of stallions?

[Opinion Owner]

@ArrowheadSW using gloves I hope

[RandomGirl42]

Oh, ty for inviting me to this one! I grew up on a little farm so have lots of experience with picking potato bugs and shoveling cow poop. 🐄 But otherwise, being the youngest of a rather large family, it was mostly my duty to run around a lot getting everyone else what they told me to get so they could do their duties. 😊

[exitseven]

No, but my father had slone farm animals. Pigs , chickens, ducks and geese. He has some turkeys ans a couple of goats. He raised a couple of steer. . I milked the goats and I helped get the steer into the trailer to get them to the butcher. I tied a rope around his neck and just expected him to follow me into the trailer. He had other ideas. i pulled and and he just stood there. I got him in a headlock and he shook his head and threw me agianst the barn wall. Finally I went in the house and got 4 or 5 apples. I fed him an apple and then held out another one and he lf followed me right up to the trailer. I tossed the last apple into the trailer and he just walked in and I closed to door behind him.
We took him to the butcher and I led him down the chute. The next time I saw him he was in little white packages.

[abc3643]

I won't say we have a livestock farm, but we do have 5 sheep (4 ewe lambs and a ewe adult) that my wife uses to practice sheepherding with our border collies.

It's not baaaaaaaaad having sheep.

[JuliaCartorez]

I have worked as a volunteer for my friends ranch help take care of the animals and cleaning up. I have also helped on my husbands uncles farm but he lives further away so I can not be there as often.

[RavVid]

Off a farm. First tasks as a boy feeding the chooks and ducks. Milking the cow, putting hay out, cutting hay etc

[Grond21]

I worked on a ranch on summer. I did everything from clearing brush and burning it to herding cattle. We stocked freezers, repaired fences, and raced ATVs.

[AgentG111]

Water and feed and exercise horses and some cattle along with sheep at times. General all around cowboy/laborer. If it was working leave it be tend to animals and land. If it's broken or needed fixed or mended then do it.

[OlderAndWiser]

When I was a child, I helped my grandmother with her chickens, but that's not livestock.

[DJB72]

I've mucked out a few stables. Hard work. Horse shit weighs more than you'd think...

[AviatorTom]

Nope. Closest to that was a visit to a farm in first grade, a long long time ago.

[Paul_in_Indy]

Sure, I grew up with sheep. …which means I shared all of the duties. I’m happy to discuss any of them.

[Sevenpointfive]

i once voluntarily watched this

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zk6KiP7iQgo

[Tarifa]

No, but I assume it would involve a lot of cleaning.

[DryGermanGuy]

No, but we sometimes fed the local cows at some holiday destinations. 🐄

[seeyounexttuesday]

My aunt had a horse farm and I helped take care of the horses when I visited her. she also worked at a farm for racehorses and I helped her a week there.

[Iron_Man]

No but we milked a cow it was the first time in my life I did that at the Dade County Youth Fair

[Sal_Monella]

I fed some Really Big horses. I rode those too big for others.

[Celticwolf78]

Well you have to clean them up for vaccination and bring them up to check on their hooves and make sure that they have no infections

[Theonly2121]

Sale barns —- oooohh ya
Bailed square bakes avd stacked when I was a sophomore

[Anonymous]

Nope, never have.

[HighSchoolCustodian]

No but i went with a lady who milked goats.

[dinojames22]

Yep. Poop removal.

[DrPepper12]

Nope

[stayorgo]

Not yet

[Bklynbadboy12]

I dont think i could

[krin_m]

I have not.