Animal Science 489 Amy Gagat Equinebeef Internship Summer 2005

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Animal Science 489Amy GagatEquine/beef
InternshipSummer 2005
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Mindale Farms Co.

• 892 East Howe Road
• Tallmadge, OH 44278

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History of the Farm

• First started over 50 years ago
• Carter Lumber (Kent, OH)
• 900 acres
• Summitcrest Farms - beef (Summitville, OH)
• Farm passed on to Trina Carter
• Now managed under Nancy Csonka
• Standardbreds advised under Holly Lane Farm (KY)

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Mission of the Farm

• Breed Standardbred Racehorses from the highest
  quality genetic bloodlines
• Breed beef cattle and club calves for sale
• Support local 4-H
• Grow and make hay to support the livestock

Autumn and her filly
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Daily Chores

• Checking mares and
• foals for illnesses

Daily turn-out of mares and foals
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Feeding and watering
Cleaning stalls, and more stalls, and more stalls
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Checking pastures for dangers
Jesse the groundhog hunter!
Cleaning and checking automatic waterers
Checking the run-in sheds and health of the
outdoor horses
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Stacking and moving hay deliveries, storing new
hay in the lofts to cure
Sweeping the barn aisles
Washing water and feed buckets
Checking the electric fences
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Now on to the good stuff!
Halter breaking and socializing with the foals
The Polaris!
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The Yearlings

• Oh those stubborn colts
• 9 stud colts
• 1 filly

Getting used to standing wraps
The first baths
Grooming
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Freeze branding the foals

• Liquid nitrogen
• Identification number
• Register Standardbreds through USTA
• Pulled tail hairs for DNA conformation of Sire
  and Dam, (DNA typing) needed before completion of
  registration

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Breeding the mares

• Palpation by the vet to check follicle size
• Ultrasounds
• Hormone injections
• AI with shipped frozen semen
• Embryo transfer

Brooke Lobell and her filly
The vet room
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Harness Racing

• USTA
• Agent Holly Lane Farms (Lexington, KY)
• Shipped semen top studs
• The Panderosa
• Grinfromeartoear
• Abercrombie
• Jate Lobell
• Western Hanover
• Cambest
• Jennas Beach Boy

The Panderosa - pacer
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Midnight Stage aka Middy

• Highest priced mare on the farm
• 200,000 offers
• Quik Pulse Mindale (son of Midnight Stage and
  Jennas Beach Boy) world record holder for a
  3-yr old pacer with a mark of 148 flat

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Veterinary problems

• Lilmisscantdonowrong aka Missy
• Chronic inflammation of her hocks from too many
  steroid injections while racing
• On a daily dose of bute
• Has trouble standing up some mornings
• Embryo transfer candidate

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Nani Oakley aka Nani

• What really happened to Nani?
• Fractured shoulder and splint bone before she was
  weaned
• Farrier work, corrective shoeing
• 6 yr old mare - sire Jate Lobell, dam Paris
  Spur - 17 yr old bay mare
• Dam to Hot Rod Mindale - brought 52,000 at the
  yearling auction Sept. 29, 2005

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Nanis baby

• Fractured splint bone
• Ironic?
• May be sent to OSU for corrective surgery

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Tattersalls Yearling SaleLexington, KYSeptember
28-29, 2005

• Sale grossed over 13 million
• Yearlings averaged 31,885
• Show me the money
• Mindale top seller Jaguar Mindale - 77,000
• Hot Rod Mindale -52,000
• Mustang Mindale - 47,000
• Western Z Mindale - 37,000
• Caprice Mindale
• (filly) - 5,000

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Mmmm beef!

• Angus
• Shorthorn
• Maine-Anjou
• Beef cattle
• Club calves

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Show cattle
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Cattle care

• Vaccinations
• Worming
• Ear tags
• Pink eye treatment
• Abscessed hoof

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Calling all cowsrounding up the herd and doing
head counts
The c-section cow
Orphaned bull calf
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Breeding the cattle

• Estrous synchronization
• CIDR controlled internal drug releasing device
• Day 0 insert CIDR intravaginally
• Day 6 give a shot of prostaglandin
• Day 7 remove CIDR
• Day 9-10 breed AI

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The big boys

• Summitcrest Farms produce breeding bulls with
  genetics that improve the bottom line for the
  customer and the beef industry
• Registered Black Angus Bulls
• Hector 17 months
• Breeding only to Angus now, want to get rid of
  all the shorthorn
• Old red Maine bull

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Making hay

• Cutting/drying
• Round bales
• Square bales
• Brush hogging pastures
• Soil assessments

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AboutMe
Raise A Leader aka Johnny

• Ridden horses for the past 13 years
• Own 2 adopted ex-racehorses
• Aspire to become an equine veterinarian

Novel Attire aka Tootsie
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What the experience gave me

• Working hands on with the foals and unbroke
  yearlings
• Observing the breeding techniques of the horses
  and the cattle
• Observing medical conditions of the animals and
  hearing the vet assessments of them
• Hands on experience with cattle
• Knowledge of how big farms are run
• Ideas for other career opportunities
• Marketability and references

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Pay off for all that hard work!

• Over 500 hours worked
• Over 3,000 made
• An experience of a lifetime working with the
  animals I love most!

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Thanks for watching!
Animal Science 489 Amy Gagat Mindale Farms Co.