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It’s a tough day in the life of a young calf on Wave Hill Station, part of a 4,700-square-mile lease in Australia’s Northern Territory that grazes forty thousand gray Brahman cattle. Each year the drovers on the historic cattle station, which was established in 1883 by legendary Australian drover Nat Buchanan, separate new calves from their mothers, run them through a chute and on to a branding table. The young calves are then polled (de-horned), castrated, branded, ear-marked and tagged, and then vaccinated against botulism and other bovine diseases in one bloody, but relatively quick, operation.

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It’s a tough day in the life of a young calf on Wave Hill Station, part of a 4,700-square-mile lease in Australia’s Northern Territory that grazes forty thousand gray Brahman cattle. Each year the drovers on the historic cattle station, which was established in 1883 by legendary Australian drover Nat Buchanan, separate new calves from their mothers, run them through a chute and on to a branding table. The young calves are then polled (de-horned), castrated, branded, ear-marked and tagged, and then vaccinated against botulism and other bovine diseases in one bloody, but relatively quick, operation.

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