Hey, the cows get preg tested every fall… the bulls have to do their tests, too! It’s only fair… Our vet has a tremendous sense of humor. He has this on the side of his pull behind trailer… though we reminded him we were working BULLS today! Bulls are checked to see if they…
Tag: bull test
Sum
Ah, the day of the year that is very unpopular… with our bulls. Today we semen tested and trich tested the bulls. It’s a necessary process… a bull with no live semen doesn’t help the ranch out any… and trich testing is for the health of our herd. The fact that you have to *get*…
Q&A Addendum
OOPS, forgot a question in last night’s Q&A session, thanks for keeping me honest, Alice! Well, I was going to cheat and just link to a former post on the question’s topic… and I wandered around trying to find it. Duh. I went and looked at my old blog, and there it was! NO WONDER…
Prepare to Blush
Yesterday was bull testing day. What kind of test, you ask? Well… the thing that makes bulls a vital part of any ranch. Their test grade all depends on whether they can pass along those expensive genetics! So… the vet puts a slide sample under his microscope to make sure each bull is producing a…
In A Nutshell
I managed to roll out of bed… have breakfast… drink coffee… and get a few things cleaned up and put away… before our vet called and said he’d drop in and preg test those “lost” cows and test one bull… Well… that meant we had to get the bull IN the corral instead of the…