It started raining last night, just as predicted. it’s rained all day just as predicted. It’s 10 pm and it’s still raining and we’ve measured 1.93” so far! That’s pretty impressive! I also just watched two vehicles start driving up the mountain on the dirt (mud) road… a car and a pickup. Hopefully, we won’t…
Tag: AI
Aye, Aye, AI
Thanks to Megan, I have a few pics of the AI process with our heifers. I mentioned this was going on when we pulled CIDRs the other day. Yesterday was my regular day at the library, so I missed the first day of AI. Today, I decided to watch the five kids and let their…
Done
More AI. The horse trailer doubles as an AI shed, holding the big semen tank, water warmer, lube, and long gloves. The boys look over some heifers… paying close attention to the silver/orange stickers and the actions of the girls. The heifers are bred and hauled off to fresh pasture. Another year done!
AI Again
It’s AI breeding season for our heifers. The boys have been working… and I stopped in to help. We always get the question of “why would you Artificially Inseminate when you could just let a bull cover the girls instead?” Well, the heifers will be put out with a bull to catch the ones that…
Fingers and Paws
I’ve talked about it more than a few times on here… I mean, I live on a ranch… we raise animals of all sorts. The guys are headed to a bull sale tomorrow, as a matter of fact. We have bulls and stud colts and roosters and the occasional tom cat. I’ve talked castration and…
Perfect Timing
The boys have been working on AI-ing our heifers. Daniel has helped some neighbors with their heifers as well. Today was our Big Day and I was called into help. I had spent the morning transplanting flowers but they wanted me after lunch, so my tomatoes will still have to wait to be planted. Vernon…
Soggy
Rain! Holy cow, it’s like we live in Seattle or something!! There’s local flooding around parts of the state… Thermopolis, Kaycee, and the creek is as full as it can get here. More rain and parts will start getting flooded. We had plans to give the heifers we are AI’ing their Lutalyse shot, but held…
Weekend Started
Busy day! I was a tad bit early to the show… so I took some time for wildflower photography… Then I helped begin the AI process… which consists of a shot of Lutalyse, which is a prostaglandin. It synchronizes estrus, in other words, all our heifers should come into heat in the next few days……
“Bloody hell, this is a sh***y job”
The job today was to gather and bleed our heifers. The morning was spent gathering them from their pasture and trailing them home. We had a bit of difficulty there… we have a creek crossing that they just can’t hit. It’s built like a sharply turned fishhook, down into a cutbank, and then across the…
Who’s Hiding
In case you were wondering… and reading my old posts… yes, we are AI-ing. Toria is here, Daniel and Brandon, and neighbor S. But they don’t need me… so I’m working on other projects. At least in between the times I’m standing over the puppies going… “ahhhh…” and “ooooooh…” and putting wayward puppies back into…
A I School part two
For those readers who cringe at poop, personal bodily functions/descriptions… THIS POST IS NOT FOR YOU! Come back tomorrow. For those readers who have a curiosity about artificial inseminations, this is VERY basic. But, it’ll do… Yesterday we took the frozen semen out of the tank, put it in warm water to get those wigglers…
A I School part one
I decided I’d better break this post down to two parts… For the more squeamish… skip tomorrow’s post… I’ll give more details then. For now… Welcome to A. I. School! We’ve AI’d for quite a few years now… but only on our first calf heifers. We have the opportunity to get good Angus semen for…