On Tuesday I gave our Jersey cow Emily the last in a series of hormone shots to get her pregnant and wouldn’t you know the needle was bent and I watched precious drops of that magic elixir spill onto the ground. Would 10 days of “synchronizing” Emily be for naught. Eighteen hours later, our local […]
Here’s the latest twist in our efforts to impregnate our Jersey cow, Emily: Starting Sunday, we will begin giving her a series of hormone shots what will culminate in artificial insemination on October 21. How can we be so sure of the date? In fact, if I took a couple of minutes to make some […]
Oh, Emily. When did you decide to play hard to get? On Friday, I removed from our Jersey cow a uterine hormone implant she’d been carrying around for the last week and then gave her a hormone shot, the result of which was supposed to be “a very strong heat” within 48 hours. But more […]
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