Last night was the first time we had free access to wifi at our hotel, it was heavenly! O, The things we take for granted! It also had a heated mattress pad! I'm so glad we get to stay there another night :) This morning we visited the Wagga Wagga Livestock Marketing Centre, aka salebarn. Today was a cattle sale day and 2800 head will be auctioned off. The trucks in Australia are rather small, I found a Volkswagen truck for ya dad! It's even a TDI tehehe
We then got all gussied up and toured through the Cargill Beef abattoir, equipped with ear plugs, hard hats, masks, safety glasses, and rubber boots. The boning room was very advanced and very Americanized. There were four different lines running and each line dealt with a quarter of the carcass. It was one of the biggest disassembly lines I've ever seen lol We learned how nearly no part of the animal is wasted and got to see tongue, stomach, kidneys, and
ligaments just to name a few. They plant harvests 1250 calves a day and the kill to chill time is just 25 minutes.
After lunch we had a bit of time to enjoy the small town atmosphere and go shopping in Temora.
We went to the Jindalee feedlot later in the afternoon. The feedlot houses 17000 cattle. They can have a capacity of 30,000 cattle however due to city water limitations they cannot have any more cattle. Im still trying to spot some Roos, I need ol Ritchie to turn off the roo whistle on the front of the bus! Haha
Pictures:
1.Cargill
2.VW truck :)
3.Wagga Wagga sale yard
Until tomorrow mates!
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