Spring Green

We have been slow getting around to getting the yearling bulls tattooed. It is customary to give them their required tattoos right after weaning while they are still being pampered in my show barn before moving them out to the bull pen. Life seemed to get into the way, and three of the bulls have been sans-tats while loafing around with the other males and growing up through their awkward ‘teenage’ puberty.

With their heads and necks growing even faster than their torsos, we had to get them locked and tattooed before the head stanchions were too small to hold them fast. We moved the bunch of bulls from the bull pen and into my show barn and enticed them to lock their heads with grain in the manger.

Mike double checked their paperwork to make sure we were inking the correct identifying number and went to work on each of the three bulls. Each animal gets his personal number tattooed in each ear. With the same number inked twice, odds are greatly improved that identification will be possible even if one ear gets damaged or if one tattoo wasn’t quite clear enough. The bright green ink tends to get not only on the black hair of the critters, but on all the equipment, the paperwork, Mike’s hands, the halters and me. That spring green seems to go everywhere.

Once the bulls are all in compliance, we released them back into the bull pen. They were happy to scoot through the gate and back to the relative peace and quiet where they were before all the hub-bub started.

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