[Music] My dirt stuff is all ready [Music] A lot to pack up are you ready baby Kids are coming bendy's coming Saucy and Sassy are getting ready for the trip We'll be prepared for anything put the Dirt gun in the back Hi going on the road this time Bindy Yeah Nice [Music] I hope we go [Music] We are back in the Yukon a lot of folks Have been calling and asking when can we Come and it was just too difficult to Try to you know run a practice across The border during covet so this is our First vet trip back to the Yukon in Quite a while It'll be good to see Dev and all of our Yukon friends yeah Deb I wonder what he Has he's probably saved up a whole bunch Of stuff for us and we're here on the Solstice longest day of the year I love the midnight this today yeah it Is the summer solstice almost 24 hours a Daylight I mean a lot of people in the Lower 48 haven't experienced the Midnight sun it's really something to Have that much daylight it's motivating Invigorating it feels like you know work Until you drop basically
[Music] Lots of sunlight and lots of warp time Yeah I was gonna say if we're going to Devs on the solstice he will have us Every single hour of daylight we'll be Working I'll be good to see him yeah Long time no see I know yeah all that Covered stuff how are you doing I'm very Good good today we're at Dev hobart's Farm which is called horse Haven Ranch This is the biggest cattle operation in The Yukon and it's really important to Keep healthy animals here There's really no livestock vet services Here it's not like we can go to the Neighbor we have a lot of help here Today So there's lots going on That has an interesting mix he started Out with a lot of mini herefords which Are kind of a smaller beef breed he's Got a lot of Scottish Highlands which Are really rugged tough and do great in Yukon and he's got some regular Angus He's got several different breeds of Cattle We have to run through and process Vaccinate deworm check them all out It is a big effort luckily we're on the Solstice so we will be using up every Minute of daylight so what have you got About 125 cows to process wow we have to Separate the cats and cats and calves
Yeah okay Rodeo It's basically a process of moving them From pen to pen to sort them separate Off the calves so the calves don't get Injured and get the cows into this long Alleyway that ends up with a squeeze Shoot and that's where we can get our Hands on each individual animal And you remember this is a job that once It started we can't stop until it's Finished I know that well we will join You outside all right [Music] Drop that bucket and come with us Maya These are beef cattle they're not dairy Cattle they're not pets let's go this Ways [Music] They basically live a pretty feral wild Lifestyle They bump into Bears they see wolves They're trying to defend their babies so You can't underestimate them they can be Really aggressive this time of year [Applause] Oh I'm not messing with you yeah that One's you get away Suddenly I'm kind of like face to face With a Scottish highland Look look that way that one's like who Should I take out first This one keeps eyeballing me Not moving just kind of staring me down Like uh-uh
About a third of these cows have horns And they know how to use them Good job perfect timing Oh hi little baby [Music] Oh there's another one here too let him Come past yeah these cows are agitated They know something's up and they're all Getting mixed up and they can't find Their calves We are turning and coming back at us oh Gosh you're good Anybody left in there Well there's another one here too I'm sorry There's one more come on now girl Perfect just went wonderfully for once So we've got the calves peeled off and We're running the cows through the shoot System Start running them through I'm gonna go To the front end We're moving about 15 or 20 at a time Down the alleyway it can be about 10 Forward shut the gate they can't back Out We only have one one at a time one at a Time okay new girl welcome to the herd So they all get everything right she is The dewormer gosh Come on get up each One that goes through here is going to Get a health check we're gonna get Vaccinations and deworming Dev wants me on hand so I can keep an
Eye on are there any issues any Lacerations any swollen joints That many animals there's gonna be Something and usually when we do this Processing there's two or three or a Dozen somethings That's why we end up here till the Middle of the night [Music] Thank you Look at that it's like a little shoulder Yeah One of the cows has a huge swelling on Her shoulder oh damn is that a big Abscess maybe yeah ooh that'll be a good One but it looks like she swallowed a Basketball that's an abscess that's Gonna be disgusting wow and she's skinny This cow has a calf to raise she's Getting quite thin and like an abscess This size because it's infectious Material most likely that can really Take a lot out of her now squeezer She can get her horns out of us just be Careful You want to shave a spot right down here Ew oh So she's got a big lump on her shoulder You can kind of see it here it feels Pretty meaty I just want to check to make sure it's Actually an abscess sometimes they can Get like a huge tumor Have seen big masses on the side of an
Animal as well and those are typically Cancerous you can get big lymph nodes That swell up like that none of those Are good things those are difficult to Treat it usually means the end of the Animal not a good thing So first thing I'm gonna do is stick it And see if it's pasta or if it's if it's Actually like a mask or what We have our answer don't we so that's Pus oh it looks like penicillin don't Keep that when Jake come too yeah don't Mix it up but yeah that's that's pus Oh that's nothing way do we open that Thing so now what we'll do is just do a Quick prep shave off some of the hair Clean it up I'll go in with a scalpel Open it up and let it rip I'm so sorry Mrs try to be quick here It will be that much pus which is about A bucket load but the also important Thing to do is look for form body Because maybe a stick got in there Sorry Miss [Music] Poor baby this is gonna feel so much Better I promise This is a lot of pus that's coming out Of this cow I've seen abscesses of this size before But they don't get me as excited as they Do Mom Get that open up I love abscesses they're awesome
It's like this kind of awesomely gross Thing gross But really what's great about it is you Know the animal feels so much better Smells like yuck you can imagine if You've got this big huge thing that's Growing on you and stretching your skin And you're just like ah if you could Just do something and suddenly it's gone That's really nice wow It's never ending it's like a waterfall Right now I'm actually really happy it's an Abscess AB says we can treat I feel like in this profession everyone Has one thing that just kind of turns Their stomach just a little bit Maya's Thing is pus Um pus actually makes me feel a little Ill especially seeing it on the ground Like mixed with poop [Music] Yeah you can give the injections and I'm Just gonna start cleaning up and Flushing a bit when it's that much it's Definitely pretty gnarly I mean I kind of challenge you to find Something to gross me out It's never happened it actually smells Like strawberry milk Okay let's see what I can do here so I'm Just trying to get this drain through All this kind of abscess tissue Drain is basically a glorified slip and