That time of year again… when the Good Doctor spends an entire day with his hand and arm being squeezed by the strong muscles of a cow’s ending digestive tract. That explains why his entire left side is green by the time he’s done. With their calves weaned already, there was much less bawling and…
Tag: pregnancy testing
Something New
Yesterday was spent pregnancy testing a small bunch of cows… While we normally have the vet just “arm them”, the neighbor wanted her little bunch sonogrammed instead. She also wanted to find out what sex they were (which you can do if they are over 60 days old). While normal sonogramming can be almost as…
Who’s Your Daddy?
So Brandon spent most of his Sunday doing this. Yup. Looking under a heifers tail… getting covered in blood and poo. I gave him an extremely short break by doing about 8 heifers right before lunch… I’m not near as fast or efficient, but I can get it done. It probably would have helped had…
Another Day Done
We preg tested and weaned our last little bunch today as well as helped the neighbors with theirs. We’ve leased some pasture from them, so it’s easy enough to do… You just have to play Shuffle the Cows! Gather our bunch, sort off the calves, start pregging and start hauling the calves away in the…
Irons in the Fire
Someday… perhaps soon… I’ll sit down in front of this computer to post earlier than 10:30 at night! Another long day… Left the house at 7:30 and except for a quick shower and change of clothes, I haven’t been here til now! So… No popcorn AGAIN! Good thing I don’t get demerits for failing to…
YawnYawn
Oh. Yay. Preg test day. Usually not one of my favorite days… lots of cooking and preparing and working and cleaning up. However. After returning home last night around suppertime… we found Brandon and Megan hard at work making pizzas which we soon devoured and then we collapsed into our soft recliners. After some visiting……
Greet Ranch Annual Labor Day Preg Test Retreat
You are hereby invited to participate in the annual Greet Ranch Labor Day Pregnancy Testing Retreat. From the beginning… to the end… of your stay, you will delight in your personal exposure to the ultimate in pregnancy testing experiences. Opportunities may include such exciting privileges as checking for veterinary tattooing and bangs vaccination tags on…
Labor Day or Holiday?
Yup. Long day. No surprise. Actually, things went quite well, we’re just never too speedy about this… We did have to dig a lot of the neighbor’s cows out of our stuff… but other than that… We were good. I guess it just seems long to me because although we arrived home at 5 pm,…
Good Girls
I know many of you are awaiting puppy pics… but yesterday and today were spent preparing for and preg testing the last of ours and a neighbor’s cows… We were hoping for a MUCH better weather day than last year! We knew Daniel was coming home this weekend… then Brandon said he was coming as…
Pregnancy Testing Video
This video shows our hard work yesterday much better than my OOPE photos! I believe I’ve outlined the basics of what we are doing on the video… but should you have any questions, please leave a comment and I’ll try to answer or clarify anything. I usually give the vaccinations… but Vernon took…
Ugh. Preg Test OOPE and exhaustion
This day has a reputation of being one of the longest, loudest, and most frustrating days of the year. It is the day we pregnancy test our cows and yearling heifers. This year went remarkably well… but I’m still… sore from being on my feet… deaf from listening to the generator for the vet’s hydraulic…