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Location: Texas!! | Douglas J Gordon - 2015-03-02 1:20 PM
Later peeps, I am going out to milk the steers!
And I'm going to gather eggs from my cats......
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| LRQHS - 2015-03-02 12:58 PM
Ummmm, what are we talking about?
Cocain and dairy farming apparently LOL |
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Location: SE Louisiana | shellyh1971 - 2015-03-02 1:20 PM
Douglas J Gordon - 2015-03-02 1:17 PM Â
Jack Verbree Dairies
1574 East 2900 South
Wendell, ID 83355 - View MapPhone: (208 ) 536-5608
Business Information
Location TypeUnknown
State of IncorporationIdaho
Year Established1989
Annual Revenue Estimate$20 to 50 million
Employees100 to 249
SIC Code0241, Dairy Farms
NAICS Code11212001, Dairy Cattle & Milk Production
Business Categories
Just call and ask about Huey... Jack will remember me and if the general manager Don is still there he will too. This was back in 99 or 2000 so most of the people prolly have not been there that long. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | rodeodelux - 2015-03-02 1:24 PM Douglas J Gordon - 2015-03-02 1:20 PM Later peeps, I am going out to milk the steers! And I'm going to gather eggs from my cats......
I'd like to buy some of those cat eggs...... |
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Location: SE Louisiana | LRQHS - 2015-03-02 1:28 PM
rodeodelux - 2015-03-02 1:24 PM Douglas J Gordon - 2015-03-02 1:20 PM Later peeps, I am going out to milk the steers! And I'm going to gather eggs from my cats......
How many would you like?
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Location: Texas!! | LRQHS - 2015-03-02 1:28 PM
rodeodelux - 2015-03-02 1:24 PM Douglas J Gordon - 2015-03-02 1:20 PM Later peeps, I am going out to milk the steers! And I'm going to gather eggs from my cats......
I've got plenty!! They got dropped off..... I think they fell out of a truck with LA plates!! |
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Location: Texas!! | Komet, where did you get the picture of my cat!! LOL |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rodeodelux - 2015-03-02 1:36 PM
Komet, where did you get the picture of my cat!! LOL
GOOGLE!!!  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Gezzzzz  , all Komet was doing was sharing a bit of his life with us and then got kicked in the butt for it, now lets all have a group hug and get over it, Pleaseeee  |
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Location: Kansas | you know I had a cow once.......coolest little thing ever. Thought my mare was her momma, she lived in my college apartment with me....and the neighbors hated her because she mooed so much LOL.
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Location: SE Louisiana | hoofs_in_motion - 2015-03-02 2:03 PM
you know I had a cow once.......coolest little thing ever. Thought my mare was her momma, she lived in my college apartment with me....and the neighbors hated her because she mooed so much LOL.
I miss that little red mooing machine. Â
You won't believe how many different ways a cow can say moo. I'll tell you a story about that another time.
Did anyone here ever have a time when they SEALED a job down? I mentioned before I was hired here for two things. ALL lives mattered and I can deal with stuff.
It was my 4th or 5th day here on my new job and I was running late. I was running 45 minutes over my time to clock out and still on dairy #3. My boss (Don) walks up with his 3 day guys in tow and I'm laying on the ground with my arm inside a cow trying to pull a leg around to deliver a calf... And I'd been screwing with this for a long time and was tired... He asked me what the problem was and in between breaths I told him.... Just then I managed to wrap my fingers around the leg, worked my way down to the hoof to cup it in my hand to pull it around and get it done. I had finally managed to produce an acceptable presentation of two feet and a nose.
My long standing beef with the days guys he had in tow was they never left the calf chains where they were supposed to be. So usually I had to use twine to pull a calf. This was before Hercules. I'll tell you about that later too.
So Don could see I was worn out and after I looped the twine around the feet he had the day guys pull it for me. Well.... I could see something was wrong. This was a 2nd or 3rd calf cow and this calf was only 65 or 70 pounds. So I got back down and reached inside the cow again. My boss asked me what I was doing and I said "Looking for another one"... and just about that time my hand hit something solid... To make a long story short I produced live twin bull calves right under my bosses nose. I heard from other people later That was when he knew he'd made the right call when he paid my way back there from Missouri.
As far as solving problems on my own. There were two times in a year I had to wake someone from the day shift for help. I'll tell you about the first time. I feel kind of bad about this because the guy got fired the next day.
It was well into winter and I was making my first round on dairy #3. The day guys had been doing what they could to make my life hard because all the other workers were Latino and I was not. So it was not a surprise when I got there and the gate to the hospital pen was open and cows were wandering around. This happened about 3 times a week in these days. So I set the gates in the alley-ways and start going about herding everyone back into the pen when one miscreant heifer got by me. She had had a calf and was in the transition from colostrum to useable milk. She ran along the back-side of the loafing shed to the hospital pen and when the shed ended she turned toward the pen. from there to the fence around the pen was about 75 feet. She was now in a little 3 sided cubbyhole about 75x100 feet. On the other side was the hospital barn itself. In the middle of all this was the lagoon that everything from the barn drained into. Well, the temp was about zero/F and there was ice over the lagoon. Well... It looked solid enough to her and she tried to run across it. She got right to the middle and fell through the ice.
So here I am. Standing there looking at this heifer treading water in sub-freezing temps in the middle of a hole of water about 50 feet across. The first thing that crosses my mind is just a few months ago I watched them dig the silt out of this hole and the backhoe they used could reach down 13 feet.
The next thing I thought about was I was alone. I had a plan in mind already but I wanted someone else there just in case things turned ugly. So I run for the truck and hightail it back toward dairy #1. On the way I stop at the home of my counterpart on the day shift. His name was Frank. He is Portagee. It used to be he had to come out 3 or 4 times a week to help the night guy... But he's had several months of sleeping in while I was there. I pounded on the door and he finally shows up and I tell him I need his help. Well,this is Sunday morning and it's his day off.... so no, he refused to help.
By this time I was in a panic. I didn't know how long this heifer could tread water that cold so I decided to go ahead with my plan alone. I just didn't have time to look for anyone else. I sped over to the feed shed on dairy #1 and jump into one of the articulating loaders they use to mix feed. I get it started and jump out to unplug the block heater and I head over to the office building.There I stop and get a 10x20' extendable ladder and throw it over the top of the loader.I also pick up several pieces of chain and throw them in the bucket... Then I head over to diary#3. Well.... these things have LOTS of power but they ain't very fast. Top speed is maybe 10mph. and I've got 1/2 a mile to go.
I get over there and breathe a sigh of relief when I see her still treading water... I got the loader into position and jump out, grab the ladder and extend it over the ice. I get one piece of chain and hook one end to the bucket and the other to the end of the ladder. I grab a long section of chain and start crawling out onto ladder extended over the ice. I got there, wrapped the chain around her neck, crawl back, pull the ladder in, hook the chain to the bucket, get in and pull her out. Well, by this time she is in shock. Across the drive is a barn we used to store straw.... I go over there and drag 2 bales over and break them up and scatter it over and around her.While I was in the barn I noticed a large piece of old carpet so I go drag that over and cover her up.
....and this is just the start of my shift... I told my boss what to look for the next day because on my last check she had not gotten up yet. And I told him and what had happened. Frank was fired that day. I caught crap for it but I didn't care.... I'd saved another life.... |
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Location: Montana | Pretty interesting stories. My dad, as a young man, worked for a rancher, and calving was always a prettty big deal because here cows seem to only be able to calve on the coldest nights of the year. So, I've heard stories about the good times, and the falling through the ice times too, but no cows were involved that I know of (although it was their own fault...they decided to rope a moose...seriously, LOL). My dad has some stories he could share I bet you all would bust out laughing from. Thanks komet.
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Location: SE Louisiana | mtcanchazer - 2015-03-02 10:13 PM
Pretty interesting stories. My dad, as a young man, worked for a rancher, and calving was always a prettty big deal because here cows seem to only be able to calve on the coldest nights of the year. So, I've heard stories about the good times, and the falling through the ice times too, but no cows were involved that I know of (although it was their own fault...they decided to rope a moose...seriously, LOL). My dad has some stories he could share I bet you all would bust out laughing from. Â Â Â Thanks komet.
The great thing about that job was every night was different. My easiest night I had one calf. The hardest night I had 21, 18 of those alive. Over 70% of the calves were born on my shift and the three days guys still had more dead calves than I did. |
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Location: Arkansas | komet. - 2015-03-02 10:37 PM
mtcanchazer - 2015-03-02 10:13 PM
Pretty interesting stories. My dad, as a young man, worked for a rancher, and calving was always a prettty big deal because here cows seem to only be able to calve on the coldest nights of the year. So, I've heard stories about the good times, and the falling through the ice times too, but no cows were involved that I know of (although it was their own fault...they decided to rope a moose...seriously, LOL). My dad has some stories he could share I bet you all would bust out laughing from. Â Â Â Thanks komet.
The great thing about that job was every night was different. My easiest night I had one calf. The hardest night I had 21, 18 of those alive. Over 70% of the calves were born on my shift and the three days guys still had more dead calves than I did.
I enjoyed the stories---thanks for sharing |
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Location: In a happy place | Good stories. |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | Thanks Komet.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | BS Hauler - 2015-03-03 10:53 AM Thanks Komet. Until you have worked with livestock most will never believe all the trouble that they can get into.
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