Butterbelle came into heat again and our AI guy had the correct semen so she's finally been artificially inseminated! If she took then we can expect a calf at the end of May.
I've been halter training her, which was really helpful. I could hook on her lead rope and lead her to the old wooden fence where the old barn used to stand. Then we tied her to the post and Dan pushed her against the fence while I kept her busy with grain. The process itself went really quickly and she stayed quite calm through it all. Our AI tech said he thinks we got her towards the end of her cycle which is when he prefers to AI.
We thought it was going to be really hard to know when she was in heat since we have no other cows, but it was quite easily to tell because she's generally very quiet. When she's on heat though she bellows all the time and runs along our fenceline calling to our neighbor's cattle. We're glad we could do it that way instead of having her do the round of shots, etc.
She's quite a calm cow, she can be cheeky at times though. She is walking along nicely now with the lead rope, but it does take a bit to get close enough to hook it onto her halter. She loves her grain though, so it doesn't take much to lure her close enough :) Shh, don't tell the other animals, but she's my very favorite of our farm animals ;)
I've been halter training her, which was really helpful. I could hook on her lead rope and lead her to the old wooden fence where the old barn used to stand. Then we tied her to the post and Dan pushed her against the fence while I kept her busy with grain. The process itself went really quickly and she stayed quite calm through it all. Our AI tech said he thinks we got her towards the end of her cycle which is when he prefers to AI.
We thought it was going to be really hard to know when she was in heat since we have no other cows, but it was quite easily to tell because she's generally very quiet. When she's on heat though she bellows all the time and runs along our fenceline calling to our neighbor's cattle. We're glad we could do it that way instead of having her do the round of shots, etc.
She's quite a calm cow, she can be cheeky at times though. She is walking along nicely now with the lead rope, but it does take a bit to get close enough to hook it onto her halter. She loves her grain though, so it doesn't take much to lure her close enough :) Shh, don't tell the other animals, but she's my very favorite of our farm animals ;)
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