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<blockquote data-quote="Bez+" data-source="post: 579660" data-attributes="member: 6797"><p>Dun is correct - at least in most cases that I can think of.</p><p></p><p>If you are trying to figure out if the cow is bred you can only do it the following ways:</p><p></p><p>1. Wait until God and Mother Nature put a calf on the ground</p><p></p><p>2. Stick you arm up her rear end to about your shoulder and feel around (a bit more to it than this, but good enough for now)</p><p></p><p>3. "Punch" her in the side - Left if memory serves - only works when calf is well along in development.</p><p></p><p>As for the "bag down" - I really had to think on that one - I think some old geezer (like me) is pulling your leg my friend. Or they know less about cows than you do but are acting like an old hand.</p><p></p><p>She will only bag up a short time before delivery. That bag may form a couple weeks ahead of calving or it may develop the day of calving and indeed sometimes it does not happen until AFTER calving - so it is not a truly reliable method of estimating calving time.</p><p></p><p>All it tells you in truth is "something is happening or is about to happen".</p><p></p><p>Bez+</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bez+, post: 579660, member: 6797"] Dun is correct - at least in most cases that I can think of. If you are trying to figure out if the cow is bred you can only do it the following ways: 1. Wait until God and Mother Nature put a calf on the ground 2. Stick you arm up her rear end to about your shoulder and feel around (a bit more to it than this, but good enough for now) 3. "Punch" her in the side - Left if memory serves - only works when calf is well along in development. As for the "bag down" - I really had to think on that one - I think some old geezer (like me) is pulling your leg my friend. Or they know less about cows than you do but are acting like an old hand. She will only bag up a short time before delivery. That bag may form a couple weeks ahead of calving or it may develop the day of calving and indeed sometimes it does not happen until AFTER calving - so it is not a truly reliable method of estimating calving time. All it tells you in truth is "something is happening or is about to happen". Bez+ [/QUOTE]
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