My computer died this morning. So until a new one arrives, I am back to posting on the iPad, which is a real pain in the butt. Speaking of pains in the butt, the hormone shot we had hoped would bring our Jersey cow Emily into heat didn’t really work. So we had a second […]
Tags:cow·insemination
How could I be so dumb? After our Jersey heifer Emily gave birth in late March, more experienced farmers told us that we would need to “skip a month” before breeding her again. For some reason I added that month to July, the month we bred her the year previous. That would mean waiting till […]
Tags:breeding·cow·insemination
When we decided to share our Jersey cow, Emily, with her new calf, we knew we were in for a learning process, but we never calculated how opinionated Emily would be about our plans. Getting Emily used to the idea of being milked took some doing. She seemed at first relieved to have some of […]
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