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Fantasy Freelancer Files (Red vs. Blue)

On a side note. . I think it's time we get some things moving in the Role play, at least for the Freelancer side. We've been stale for nearly a week!
 
Hot nurses are the worst, always touching you and trying to wrap your legs up into some weird blood flowing socks. Give me the Hispanic nurse named Manni and the disgruntled and chubby mother of two in the night, the attractive nurses are distracting my body from recovering!


I may or may not be able to spice things up, if we're willing to forego believability and rush some things along, character wise. I'd make the jump, for some action. I'm just not sure if all of you might be warming to the idea.
 
When the hell did y'all get to page 69 on the OOC!?!? What the hell.


I'm writing a post now guys. Lots going on, from birthday to handling Church to work, but I'm bout to have the ODST's get ready and action to occur. I'm sorry it's come to this guys, but I'm throwing a bit of the wind up and suspense to give you some action. Go ahead and post what y'all want, but mine will be done within an hour or less.


 
Daimao the only helping hand giving you special treatment is your own.
 
Pssh you're funny. One of my wrists is broken and the other hand is all bloody and bandaged. Siwwy Hunt.
 
TheAncientCenturion said:
Wolves are cool, I can't say I feel the same on cats. They always look like they're thinking, and not in the good way. Their stares and attitudes just tend to bother me, but then again I can only base this off of maybe four interactions with my roommates cat. I honestly prefer reptilians or extinct animals to tr and find information on, they just seem infinitely more complex, the way they lived, why and how they took on abnormal adaptations, and what they're closely related too. Like, bats are closer related to horses than rats. Things such as that gets my gears going.
Lel...How big is this Swiss cow? I'm literally at best two inches taller than you, and that's terrifying. They're that large AND have horns? And Freddie was a like a dog >.>? I would probably just avoid an animal that big, regardless of how nice it seems. . That's just. . Trampling sizes for me. Interesting, though, on their stomachs. How do they sleep? Just. . With their legs bent and resting on 'em? That sort of makes sense, more for horses do to how their legs are, but does that mean cow tipping actually can kill a cow?! . . .Is cow tipping a legit thing, would be my next question? I went to penn State for two semesters, we were out in the middle of no where at the side campus I went to. Lot of farms, animals, and corn/whatever looks like corn growing around us. I always sort of wanted to go cow tipping, but no one ever seemed as interested.


That's cringe-y, dehoring. . Just the blood going straight out like that? I completely understand why you'd do it, it's for everyones safety that could be around the cow. It's an animal and if it gets spooked or someone starts business with the cows, I'd imagine you would still be on fault for having their horns on. But that still just sounds awful . . Wait, you eat your own cows? Or other peoples cows? What DO you feed your cows? Corn, grass or something else? I don't exactly know what debudding could be, but sure, if you don't mind explaining it. I'm always up to learn new things, worst to happen is it grosses me out a bit. . But do you really gotta dehorn them so freuqently? Seven times in five years? Ughhh. . . What're their horns, anyways? Bone? keratin? And right right, so to me, it's like changing your oil? You can either pay someone to do it for you, it's expensive if you do though, or you do it yourself and might get a bit messy? Is that an accurate analogy?


Lel. . Sorry for the late reply, I started typing earlier today, but I needed to shovel some snow, and work on an English paper due tomorrow night. >.>. . .
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(I'm beyond caring about typos with this post.)


Wait. Bats are related that close to horses? Horses, of all animals?! That's cool!


Brown Swiss cows are naturally very large cows due to the breeding done thousands of years ago to make them larger in frame. They used to be as small as a Jersey dairy cow (little temperamental brats that are the smallest dairy breed), but they were bred with mainly Germain and Austrian beef cattle to make them larger. They eventually became much larger and thicker cows that are now dual purpose (can easily produce both beef and dairy products. And Brown Swiss is perfect for making cheese with due to their high protein content in the milk). Many people comment on their large size, but I have raised two Swiss heifers (now cows..that probably makes no sense to you as you probably don't know livestock terms like that, but whatever), and half a dozen Swiss steers. So I'm used to their size by now, and they seem normal to me. Fred was just an abnormally enormous steer from what I was used to. Brown Swiss can easily be tamed like that, though, because they are known for their very calm and loving temperaments. They are extremely stubborn and can get a little bit too over excited for their own good, but they are still big sweethearts. Hell, you can usually sit on or against them when they are laying down, even when they are free in the pasture! I have done so many a times, and have even easily fallen asleep against my cow Maisy. She will even rest her head on my body or against my head sometimes (their heads are REALLY heavy, but it's adorable when they do that).


The way a cow lays down is by first dropping to their knees, then they just drop their rear end to the ground. When they are laying down, they have a bit of the bottom of their bellies showing, and their udders if they are a producing female. Their shoulder closer to the ground keeps then from laying flat on their side, because it props them up. Their front legs are bent under their brisket (chest floor), and their hind legs can either be bent up and stuck to their belly (best way to describe it) or kind of stretched out to the side. When they are awake, they will just have their heads up and look ahead. To sleep, they curl their head around and lay it on their side. To stand back up, they pull their hind legs under them, stand up first on their hind legs, then they extended and stand on one front leg and then the other until they are standing all the way. I'll try to find a pic of what they look like laying down so you will know.


COW TIPPING IS NOT REAL. A cow can never sleep while standing. Only horses do that. If you walk up to a cow and try to tip it, you better hope it is a friendly pet that loves attention. Otherwise, the cow will either run or kick the shit out of you. Honestly, though, it's pretty hard to creep up on a cow while they are standing, unless they are eating in a feeder. And a cow will most likely run, unless they are cornered. If they are cornered, then an untamed cow will probably kick you if you are behind it. A tamed cow will probably just stare at you, watching you to make sure you don't do anything funny.


Being there makes it even worse. The blood doesn't always shoot terribly out, but it is still a messy and bloody job that I hate. And a cow with horns can even be a hazard if they are sweet and tame, because a lot of younger ones (especially the steers) like to but you gently with their foreheads and polls (the bump on the top of their head where the horns grow out of). Sometimes they get a bit aggressive with you because they are used to nudging animals that have a head and body hard enough to fight back, and they think it is just fun and games. Then you need to somehow smack the animal on the nose of it gets too cocky, because that is the most sensitive part on a cow. Hit them there, and they will stop and run or just cut whatever shit they are doing. Sounds mean, but I'd rather do that than have a cow treat me like another cow, as that will end up with me getting killed. I wouldn't try that with a bull, though, as that will probably just piss them off. And beware around dairy bulls, too, because those are some of the most mean, dangerous, and aggressive bovine you will ever see. Really. Dairy bulls are mean motherfuckers. Do not mess with them.


We raise one or two of our steers every year for someone to butcher for us. Then we keep most of the meat and sell some to friends. We sometimes do the same with pigs, but we hardly ever actually have pigs on the property. They are a bugger to have sometimes, because they are master diggers and really fucking hard to treat if they are sick. That is one thing I hate about getting attached to steers, though. Because they are always used for meat....I will eat meat, but I will only eat beef that came from our animals, when I can. That way I know exactly what that animal was fed his whole life, how he was treated, and how he was treated when ill. If the calf is a beef calf, they are born here and they stay on their mother until they are six to eight months of age. Then we round them all up and sell them. I hate selling them at the sale yard, but it's the most efficient way to sell them. While they are growing, they get all the grass they want during spring and summer, hay during the winter, and all the milk they can nurse from their mothers during that time. And the mothers get hay or grass, depending on the season and weather. When it comes to dairy calves, we buy two or four Swiss steer calves a year from the dairy we bought our two Swiss cows from. Then we milk our two cows by hand, split the milk up, and either feed the calves off a bottle or out of a bucket, depending on their age. That is usually the only time we have pigs, because four young calves (two from our two cows and two from the dairy, or just four from the dairy. It all depends on specific things) can't drink all 10 to 14 gallons of milk we get twice a day. They can drink more and more as they age, but feeding them too much when they are too young will make them sick. A calf can only handle liquid at a young age because they only have one compartment to their stomach, but their stomach will have split into four compartments by the time they are (I think?) ten days to two weeks old. Once their four stomachs have split apart and formed, they can start eating and digesting hard food stuffs. We start to feed them hay as soon as possible, and we start feeding them a bit of grain a few days after. They get grain and a lot of hay for a couple months to give them a boost, then we wean them off the grain. As long as the season is right, we let then have all the pasture they want in a small pen connected to their main pen. They receive milk until they are around seven to nine months old, depending on their size and when the dairy cows will calve next (you need to dry a cow up at least two to three months before she calves so she will have enough time to build back up her milk for her next calf, and recover). Then we will turn them out into the field with the beef cows, because then we won't have to bucket feed them once they are weaned. Out there, they will graze as much as they please and grow larger. Sure, they will bitch like babies for a few weeks about their absence of milk (because that is like a drug to a calf). But they eventually get used to it. Then, we usually sell two of the steers to a family friend (that we trust) after a couple months out in the field, then we keep the rest for our own uses. The steers are usually..done with by 18 to 20 months of age. We like that better than keeping beef calves, because dairy steers are not as fatty and no one wants to pay much for a dairy steer at the sale yard. If we get a heifer from one of our dairy cows, then we will keep her for breeding, because I refuse to sell a daughter from one of my cows at the sale yard. They do sometimes go for breeding purposes when sold there, but usually for meat. And we will not eat a heifer. Only steers.


When it comes to what we feed our breeding animals, it's usually hay or grass, depending on the season. Hay in the cold months, grass in the warm months. Only our dairy cows are fed grain, and they only get that when they are producing milk. Otherwise, feeding a pregnant cow too much will make her gain too much weight and fat. And a cow that is too fat when calving is screwed, as fat on a cow likes to pack on her tail head and thurl areas (basically the base of her tail and the flat skin stretching between her hips - or hooks - on either side of her tail). Since that is the exact area of the birth canal, too much fat will squeeze on the canal and make it smaller. The smaller the canal, the more a cow will struggle with giving birth. You can help her all you want if she let's you (there are specific ways to help a cow in labor), but it will still be very difficult on and taxing on the cow. And the calf, and even the cow, will have a higher chance of dying if she is overweight.


I would...guess that a horn is made of keratin, since the horn bud that grows the horn is first just sitting on top of the skin. But it is also white in color underneath the gray outer layer, so it could be bone. I'm not sure, to be honest. The bud is grown from a small bump on the top of the skin, to a point on top and roots inside the skin. The roots of the bug grow down to the skull of the calf, and the horns are attached to the skull by the age of three months. After that, your only hope of getting the horns off the calf is to dehorn them (disbudding is different from dehorning, and has to do with the explanation I gave for the bud, but I will get to that in a minute). Usually, you only need to dehorn a cow once in there life, because that slows the growth. In extreme cases (like we had to do with our two show cows) you have to dehorn them twice in their lives. After that, the growth will have slowed down a lot and the horn nub shouldn't grow too much. If you just want to take the tip off once for safety, though, you can just do it once and be good. We had to dehorn our two cows twice, though, because they are brought to fairs three times a year and we could get in trouble if they have too much growth back on their horns. In all, we have dehorned only five different animals. Now, to disbudding. We have done it eight times so far, and we like it so much more than dehorning. Like I said above, the bud sits on the top of the skin where the cells grow it in both directions. Before they become three months of age, they can be disbudded. That is where you shave the areas around their buds and deaden the area around their horns (you do both with dehorning as well, to keep the pain away and keep the wound clean of their dirty fur), then you plug in a little device. The handle is a kind of battery, and it is attached to a loop of tube-like metal. The loop starts at one part on the end of the handle, runs up around three or four inches from the handle, bends up, makes a loop that almost closes, then runs back down parallel to the beginning. The other end stops in the handle next to the other end. That is a shit description, so maybe I will find a pic for that as well. After that device is plugged in, the metal on the loop heats up. It becomes very hot. Once it is hot enough and the calf is numb enough, you place the loop around the bud of the horn. The loop is the perfect size to fit around the bud (which is between the size of a nickel and dime in width). You run the loop around the base of the bud, which kills off as much horn growing tissue as possible by burning it. It also burns the skin that surrounds the bud. Once you have burned as much as you need to, you go to the other side. Then your done burning. It smells horrible, and probably hurts a bit, but the calf doesn't bleed everywhere. And the branded skin creates a natural scab and cap for the skin underneath, so you do not need to wrap anything. You just spray tincture iodine on both buds to keep it disinfected, spray some fly spray on it if it is done during the summer (because asshole flies flock to any wounds during the summer), then turn the calf loose. Their head will be uncomfortable for a while afterward, and appears to be somewhat itchy (the calves love to reach with their hind leg and scratch that the buds with their hoof afterward, or scratch on posts. Both bug me, because it just causes them to take the scab off before it should come off), but it doesn't bleed for a while and cause pain after the meds ware off. Then, after a couple weeks, the scab will dry and peel off. The skin will then heal over, and it appears like the calf was born naturally polled. And the horns usually never grow back. Sometimes they do come back slowly but surely, and then the calf has to be dehorned if it gets too bad (that has only happened once for us, and that was the one I was gladly absent for even though I didn't mean to be), but it's not a normal thing.


That actually is a good way of describing it.


You're fine. You have a life away from this site. We all do.
 
Oi, don't make me beat you like a piñata. I'm warning you, I teach martial arts (>:<)
 
Are you sure it wasn't Serial Ferell, dancing instructor and part time nurseee!


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He seems like your type!
 
I literally know nothing about American celebrities/athletes other than Shaun White.
 
To be honest, I have trouble recognizing actors and supposedly famous icons too. Most of them Idgaf about, so I never bother


@1stLt Church I'll have to reply to your post either later tonight or tomorrow afternoon. Just a bit too busy to type up a long reply at the moment.
 
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