Coomalie Holding Depot, Bachelor NT, Australia, 19 August 2022 Veterinarian Hamish Brett inspects cows at his Coomalie Holding Depot. The animals are inoculated against a variety of bovine diseases, scanned for a memory ID chip in one ear, and then changes the numbered plastic pesticide tag on the other ear. Some cows were also checked for pregnancy. The animals are sorted by weight as only cows weighing over 260kg are ready for export.
The livestock is destined for export from Australia to Indonesia and Malaysia. The cattle are brought here from cattle stations in the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory and kept here to be prepared for shipment. These young cows have been bred in near-wild conditions, and most have rarely been fed anything besides wild vegetation, and now have to adjust to living in pens with other animals and eating hay, pelletized food, and drinking from a trough.
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