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I like animals. >> it's a functioning dairy farm. in addition to the milking processing that they have going on there, they actually have an animal hospital to tend to the sick cows. >> see, right now her temperature is 103.5. that's high. somebody is going to come in and he's going to give her a drench. that's a certain type of a -- like a drink you give her down her throat. >> sick cows come under the care of inmate marvin lard. >> first i started as a chaser. then i went to a milker. i came over here as a herdsman. herdsman is the highest-paid position out here in the dairy. i take cares of...

In the hospital barn. >> lame cows, sick cows. sometimes they come in with various diseases that can spread through a whole herd. you have to be aware of that. >> all the cows at the dairy farm were given numbers as opposed to names and a number of the inmates who'd worked there for a long time like marvin, you know, developed certain bonds with some of the cows. so they would lovingly call their cows by their numbers because that was their name. >> i've got a couple of favorites. there's two really. 5306 and 5378. my two favorites. >> why? >> they come up to you. some of them are real funny. ...

Spent tending to the ailing herd in the hospital barn. >> lame cows, sick cows. sometimes they come in with various diseases that can spread through a whole herd. you have to be aware of that. >> all the cows at the dairy farm were given numbers as opposed to names and a number of the inmates who'd worked there for a long time like marvin, you know, developed certain bonds with some of the cows. so they would lovingly call their cows by their numbers because that was their name. >> i've got a couple of favorites. there's two really. 5306 and 5378. my two favorites. >> why? >> they come up to y...

In addition to the milking processing that they have going on there, they actually have an animal hospital to tend to the sick cows. >> see, right now her temperature is 103.5. that's high. somebody is going to come in and give her a drench, that's a certain type of drink you give her down her throat. >> sick cows come under the care of inmate marvin lard. >> first i started as a chaser. bringing up cows. then i went to a minimuminger and i came over here as a herdsman. i take cares of all the cows. sometimes there are cows that get loose or i have to move cows, transfer cows from pen to pen. ...

>> sick cows, sometimes they come in with diseases that can spread through a whole herd. you have to be aware of that. >> all the cows at the dairy farm were given numbers as opposed to names and a number of the inmates who worked there for a long time like marvin developed certain bonds with some of the cows so they would lovingly call their cows by their numbers because that was their name. >> i've got a couple of favorites. there's two really. 5306 and 5378. my two favorites. >> why? >> they come up to you. some of them are real fun. some of them are not. sometime i look at them animals and...