regolith
Well-known member
Happens every year...
AI'd eight cows this morning.
Two of them were seen riding like crazy.
The rest of them... five seen mounted once, minimal other signs of heat, one lost most of her tailpaint through the night no sign at all of heat.
I'm trying to listen to that reassuring voice that keeps saying "If they may be in heat, put a straw in them and stop worrying about it."
which backs itself up with the hint "just put another straw the same in them in 24 hrs if you find they're actually just coming into heat now"
The reality is that I very, very rarely go back and put a second straw in because I've mated a cow on the earliest signs of heat and she comes in properly 12 hrs or 48 hrs later. Just as often, these minimal signs are all you're going to get. And at least half the time, they seem to be true heats.
But I'd like to be back in the situation I was in three years ago with 100 straws of a very cheap, really all-round good bull sitting in the bank for these cows. Milking the first of his daughters now and they're doing good.
AI'd eight cows this morning.
Two of them were seen riding like crazy.
The rest of them... five seen mounted once, minimal other signs of heat, one lost most of her tailpaint through the night no sign at all of heat.
I'm trying to listen to that reassuring voice that keeps saying "If they may be in heat, put a straw in them and stop worrying about it."
which backs itself up with the hint "just put another straw the same in them in 24 hrs if you find they're actually just coming into heat now"
The reality is that I very, very rarely go back and put a second straw in because I've mated a cow on the earliest signs of heat and she comes in properly 12 hrs or 48 hrs later. Just as often, these minimal signs are all you're going to get. And at least half the time, they seem to be true heats.
But I'd like to be back in the situation I was in three years ago with 100 straws of a very cheap, really all-round good bull sitting in the bank for these cows. Milking the first of his daughters now and they're doing good.
