Canesister's 2025 journal - Bushel & Peck Farm

[canesisters]

Any news on the "breeding the cow" situation?

I haven't seen definate In Heat behavior in a long while.
I've tracked when it should be happening on the calendar so I'll know when to watch closely & maybe to pull her into the stalls to check her rear end.

 

[canesisters]

Well how about that.... came home to a frisky cow bellowing her head off.

 

[Baymule]

Well heck fire, now you gotta do the AI again.

 

[canesisters]

Well heck fire, now you gotta do the AI again.

Exactly!

 

[Ridgetop]

Too bad you don't know some one with a bull where you could take her.

 

[canesisters]

Too bad you don't know some one with a bull where you could take her.

It's ok. My AI guy is great & she's always been pretty easy to get bred.
I'll contact him after this weekend so we can plan out his visit next month.

 

[Finnie]

It's ok. My AI guy is great & she's always been pretty easy to get bred.
I'll contact him after this weekend so we can plan out his visit next month.

Oh I thought you were going to say that he would rush right over to AI her immediately!

 

[Ridgetop]

If she is not settling, how about using some of the hormone tags to bring her into estrus and lengthen her seasons? I have never used them but I know that some people have to bring seasonal breeding sheep into estrus when they needed to lamb in a certain month.

 

[canesisters]

If she is not settling, how about using some of the hormone tags to bring her into estrus and lengthen her seasons? I have never used them but I know that some people have to bring seasonal breeding sheep into estrus when they needed to lamb in a certain month.

She's never had trouble settling before. She bred earlier this year, on the first try. But then she lost the calf a couple of months later. Most likely because she was way past due for vaccs & had likely been exposed to some things from visiting deer herds.
Vaccs updated & boosted.... temps much cooler.... ready to try again.

 

[canesisters]

Had a GREAT weekend so far.
@fuzzi came Friday afternoon. The cats were very welcoming! And we had fun chatting & making a delicious dinner.
Up early Sat to pick up my friend Carmen & head to the swap.
We met up with @farmerjan & @Mini Horses . A bit of breakfast, a lot of walking, a little shopping & lunch in the feed shed on stacks of feed bags.
Thank goodness that we were in my small car..... there was a mammoth donkey colt there that was in desperate need of a rescue home. He looked like he had had a rough start
Poultry of ALL KINDS, pigs, sheep, goats, & many many many other critters of every shape & size.
I came home with a bag of paw-paw seeds & 2 new roosters.