Eye to Eye

We had an interesting time doing some long overdue cattle work today.
We have several young bulls which had managed to dodge castration and they really needed to be got to market. 
As you can see from this blip, their main interest (at present) is tussling with each other. 

Mr isbi and I managed to get them half way to the yards but then they broke away and ended up back where we started so we went and had lunch and waited for Malcolm and Luke who were coming to help move some of Malcolm's who had got in with others of ours. 

To cut a long story short it was all fairly successful from then on with Mr isbi and Luke on bikes, Malcolm in the ute and me on foot. 
I must say having Luke (aka The Man from Coxs River) to help was a real bonus.

Extra shows Luke giving one of the bulls a horn trim with Mr isbi and Graham (who made a late appearance and hopefully learnt something) looking on.

I have to tell you this story which just about takes the cake for bureaucracy gone mad. 
Malcolm is the official  government feral pest controller in the valley. A couple of years ago he had to do a course to get accreditation to take blood samples from euthanised pigs to check for disease. Now it has been decided the samples can only be taken by a vet. But no vets are going to head into the wilds of Megalong for that. So now no samples are collected and no data can be obtained on whether the diseases have infiltrated the valley.
Just how a trained person can stuff up getting some blood from a dead, feral pig remains a mystery.