My AI guy is Select Sires and he is one of the handful of Angus bulls that I’m interested in that has semen available along with Playbook and Rainfall.
You are very right about that 4 hour window. When I was stationed at Fort Benning, they would not let us go on leave until midnight. That would have me hitting Atlanta about 1:30 AM and it was smooth sailing then.
Thanks for all the replies and advice. I will probably be stuck around 5 or 6 cows until(or if) I can buy or lease something nearby. I would love to AI myself on observed heats, it’s just with my paying job, I don’t have the time.
I have reduced my herd down to 5 cows(at my current place) since I sold my farm that was about an hour away and most of the cows that were there. I was curious of y’all think that I could breed these cows with synchronized AI or would just have to borrow a bull or still use a cleanup bull.
I have set my bales out in a grid pattern and used polywire to separate them and ration them to the cows one bale at a time. It worked real well for me but my cows were conditioned to polywire.
I have a 1954 Mosin Nagant M44 that I believe may have the barrel shot out. You can shoot the high dollar stuff like S & B or Privi Partizan and it shoots all over the place , but the cheap Monarch stuff from Academy was dead on. The downside with the Monarch stuff was that 1 or 2 out of a box...
I tried Red River Crabgrass back in 2015/2016 and had no luck on the sandy land. You can’t stockpile crabgrass for the winter. I live an hour away mow and barely have time to bush hog the place much less plow.
I love it from April to October but it doesn’t stockpile like fescue does. I have been on the edge of the Sandhills and Piedmont all my life and you can’t beat a good stand of fescue with some clover in it.
Wouldn’t AI work good with a herd of 10 cows or less? I’m thinking about selling my cows on a sandy place that I own that is nothing but bahiagrass and an hour away and just keeping the 5 cows behind my house and AIing them.
This was back in August. This was a young cottonmouth that crawled under my foot as I was opening my truck door . He crawled about 4 feet from my truck door and started striking towards me.