Welcome to my new blog. I thought I'd give it a try. Anyway, today was a pretty normal day. We ussually start chores at 6:00 am. The cows really didn't want to come into the barn today. Its been really hot, and they wanted to enjoy the cool morning air I think. We did morning chores and baled some hay before the rain came. My mom, dad, sisters and me all hlp on the farm.My responsibilities on the farm include helping milk, artificial insemination, general herd health and some field work.
I know some people might not know what artificial insemination is. It involves sticking your hand up cows butts to get them bred- not as bad as it sounds though : ) My dad always artificialy bred the cows, but about 3 years ago he hurt his back and was laid up for quite a while. We really don't have any AI technicians in our area that travel from farm to farm since we are in the middle of "nothingness" as my sister says. We really didnt want to get a bull, so someone else was going to have to learn to "get a cow knocked up"(another one of my sisters sayings ;) So, the canidates were my older sister Abby, older sis Becky Younger sis Kristina, mom, or yours truly. First, Kristina is only 12, so nope. Abby wont go near the back of a cow (shes been kicked a few to many times I think) Becky was willing to try it, but she is quite short, and well, we have gigantic cows, so she has alot of trouble breeding most of them. (She's our backup inseminator) So, that left me. I wasn't too short, I wasn't terrified of cows kicking me, and I really wasn't freaked out about shoving my hand up a cows butt. So, the AI instructer came out and taught me how to do it. She was really nice, about my age. She went over everything and we proceeded to the long glove hands on part. I'd watched dad and Becky AI many times, but it was def. a differnt feeling doing it myself. I cant say though that I was at all grossed out.
3 comments:
great blog. there are many times I have pulled calves from cows even without gloves. Alot of pople would be grossed out by it. It requires alot of strength , three or four people on the end of a rope sometimes... but thats farm life eh.
But there is nothing as hot as a woman in skin tight jeans showing up to inseminate a cow.
The birth of a new calf is always amazing. Do you live on a farm james?
I don't think the cow thought I was hot ;) but glad to hear you thought so :)
Yes, I live on a mixed/ dairy farm, just got thru with some hay baling . Wheat harvesting starts in 2-3 weeks
I had one those exams at a Dr.s office during a physical, I felt like a cow kept in after milking to be A.I'd , the Dr. dry gloved me but it was over alot faster than a cow insemination :)...
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