Daniel and Brandon each have their own personal herds. Daniel raises registered Angus. Brandon’s focus is selling his grass fed beef. They each have their own schedules for artificially inseminating and, therefore, calving their little bunches. I missed the work with the ranch’s herd (babysitting instead) and Daniel’s, but since Brandon tends to work his…
Tag: artificial insemination
Ay Eye
Not Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Insemination. We had 150 heifers to do today. Quite a bit for us. Plus the guys wanted to space them out some, which was ok, as we got to take a long lunch! Most of the time in the past, I’ve worked the alley or have done paperwork, but this time…
Waves of Rain
I helped a smidge with the AI’ing this morning. Barely enough to count, but I was there for a bit. The kids have just finished AI’ing these girls. See how the silver tag from yesterday is now collision orange? It makes it pretty easy to see who’s been ridden. Once they’ve done a bunch, we’ll…
Mounting Evidence
Today we began our AI program. Well, the hard work part of it at least! For the next few days, the boys (and Victoria when she shows up) will Artificially Inseminate our heifers. We’ve done this for a few years now, and continue to be happy enough with our results, so we’re at it again!…
Fingers Crossed
Artificial insemination. It’s what we do for our Memorial Day celebration. Our young heifers, the ones we’ll be calving out next spring, are busy, hopefully, getting pregnant this weekend. After much debate, and checking records, and discussions, and looking at lists… the guys decided which semen to buy, and which heifers would be a good…
Thrilled with Green
They did it. My kids (+1) finished AI-ing our heifers today… on schedule… with no major worries! (The scale house was the center of the action.) That was even after my boys and I went to the dance last night and got home at midnight! Yes… as Ginny stated in her comment yesterday… It DID…
Ambiance of Sorts
Today began our first day of AI-ing. That’s Artificial Insemination for those of you new to ranching/or my blog. InSEMENation… there… I saved you looking it up in dictionary.com as in fertility… baby calves… semen. “But… But… You have bulls!” “Yes, we do.” We have AI’d our first calf heifers for the past few years….
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…