Approaching My Last Day at Langhill Dairy Farm

Well, these past 4 days have been quite the experience. Today we vaccinated all of the 2 month old calves with Blue Tongue vaccination. It has become compulsory in Scotland to give this vaccination since it's introduction about a year ago. We had to round up all of the calves today (which is not easy) and trap them in a run. I am sure glad I had steel-capped boots on because I was stepped on a few times by the 200kg calves! Frasier, Jackie and I were in this small area vaccinating these calves and spraying them with paint to mark which ones had been done. In 2 weeks, they will give a second administration of the Blue Tongue vaccination and the paint makes it easy to identify which ones have had an injection already. Unfortunately, if it rains, the paint wears off and they will have to go by the ear tag identification. Nothing much was done today except for milking the cows at 3pm. Other than that, I worked on filling forms out for the school and did some miscellaneous work here and there. The thing I look forward to most at the end of each day has been a nice hot shower! I took a video today of the cows being herded across the road. Frasier is in the field with the "horse" (a quad) getting them to move faster. It really is amazing when the farmer calls out to the cows and they all come running because they know it is time to eat. I was out in the field with the calves today because we were looking for the 3 missing calves that needed to be vaccinated. Jackie called out to the calves while I was standing in the middle of the field and it was like a stampede! All of a sudden I turn around and there is this group of 20 calves running at me towards Jackie. Well, tomorrow is my last day and I begin my official first day at Summerhall on Monday. On Monday I will matriculate and get my student ID card, etc. Hope everyone is doing well!