Entries Tagged as 'cow'
I may need a month to recover from my recent trip to DC. Ostensibly to prep our rental apartment for winter, a five-day break from farming turned into a moveable bacchanalia with old friends. But when does it not? Hence, no blog writing for the last week. The best I could do was post a […]
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Tags:chickens·cow·goats·hay·winter
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 […]
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Tags:artificial insemination·breeding·cow·hormones
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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Tags:artificial insemination·cow