Castration 101

Written by Grant and Braden:

Today we went on our first adventure with Mario the local pastor in the field of agriculture. our conquest of epic proportions began at 9:00am from Mario's house. The day started off very quickly when we stepped outside only to find a horse and a cow waiting there for us. Whilst everyone stared we began to measure out vaccines and restrain the animals. After a few vaccinations we were on our way to the first house where we would castrate a bull. Yes....castrate a bull. surprise! If you would like a detailed explanation continue reading, if not....(Colleen Job) then skip to the next paragraph. Enjoy! We began by tying the bull to a post and flipping it on it's side after Mario decided to check the size of the testes. The legs were then tied and Grant used a tool to hold the bulls nose while Braden (me) harmlessly knelt upon the side of the creature. whilst all of this is taking place the bull decided to let out some gas and occasionally a small brick of feces exploded from the rectum. With endless mooing, Mario cleaned the scrotum and pulled out his pocket knife.... yup a pocket knife. With a few quick slices the scrotum was torn from the bull. Mario, upon noticing that the scrotum looks like a mustache... promptly placed it up to the bridge of his nose for a picture. After the brief photo-op he began to pull the fist sized testes from the scrotum of the bull. With blood gushing and the excessive mooing the castration was compete. After the application of some medicine, the cow was set on it's way. Yay! It's over, but wait there is more....... Mario proceeded to explain to the owner of the bull how large the testicles of the bull were whilst playing with the vas-deferens and stroking the testes. how lovely! A couple more pictures later and we were actually done. Overall, this experience was very life changing and I will now, not any different than before, never want to be castrated. haha.

For those of you who skipped over the fun it was castrated on the ground. After that we continued to drive around town to people's houses and injected various animals such as pigs, cows and horses. At the end of the day we immunized a total of 33 animals, and had a lot of fun.