Canesister's 2025 journal - Bushel & Peck Farm

[canesisters]

Naw... I wish... but that thing is a white as when it came out of the package. And, she's up to the bellowing at ear splitting volume with every breath stage.

And I just realized that I've had a little paper stick with cow pee on it sitting on my coffee table for HOURS & have given it zero concerns.
I don't know if that means I've completely embraced farm life mentality or if I've just given up.

 

[Baymule]

You have completely embraced the farm life mentality. Cow pee stick on the coffee table sounds normal to me.

Friends from church brought me home last Sunday so I could leave my car there for the week, due to possible flooding all week. I drove my mule back and forth. Mention was made of how clean my house was. I responded, "My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy," They lost it, laughing.

 

[rachels.haven]

"My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy,"

I needed that in my life.

 

[SageHill]

I responded, "My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy," They lost it, laughing.

That should be on a plaque to hang!

 

[farmerjan]

There have been plaques with that saying on it for years... my mom had it in the house when us kids were growing up....

 

[canesisters]

So.... between conversations with my AI guy & our @farmerjan , it seems that re-breeding will be delayed until fall.
Because Eva lives alone, I have not been concerned about keeping up with vaccs. A huge mistake on my part.
Any mammal can carry lepto ... deer, foxes, possums, raccoons, coyotes, etc. And shed it on the pastures. In cows it can cause abortion.
She needs to be vaccinated, then given a booster a few weeks later. Then, once we are past the worst of the heat - which lowers her chances of conception - we can try again.

Expensive & time consuming lesson.

 

[SageHill]

Expensive & time consuming lesson.

In that - you are not alone. We all learn, and sometimes the hard way - but that's how it works.

 

[Baymule]

So sorry, but lesson learned.

 

[Ridgetop]

She needs to be vaccinated, then given a booster a few weeks later. Then, once we are past the worst of the heat - which lowers her chances of conception - we can try again.

If the vet is coming out to do the vaccinations you might want to do a uterine check for any infections that could prevent conception.

 

[farmerjan]

@canesisters is doing her own vacc... nothing vet needs to do... Cow is coming in heat on a regular basis so not like she is cystic either... very likely it was early embryonic death... lepto, heat, who knows,,, If she was with a bull, probably would just figure she settled later than early... one advantage to AI breeding....having a known date.