I never thought I would go back to the vet school days of studying st 3am, but here we are. What a wild ride this IVF journey has been! Yesterday’s oocytes are already in Madison, WI and awaiting fertilization today. #boviteqbaby
Last weekend we moved a couple groups of cows around and I caught myself mid sentence saying “I can’t wait to go feed the cows and see…”
Logan looked at me and said “how happy they all are?”
It feels cheesy- but we hope the cows are happy. This girl in the video sure didn’t mind heading back to the barn for flush morning. She probably had her mind on food, but I like to tell myself the cows just love going through our barn.
A typical flush schedule requires 11 trips through the chute, morning and evening, 5 and a half days in a row. We line them up on the alley for shots and only head catch when breeding. They learn to walk in, stand and wait, and walk back out.
If you’ve made it this far- drumroll for today’s results…. We hit the downward trend and had a tough finish to flush week. It’s hard to make things “feel better” when we don’t get the results we are hoping for, but we all go into this knowing that the chance is there and the average is a very real part of what we do every day, so I think it is just as important to share it and do our best to learn from it.
Viable/total count for today:
5/23
0/0
We’re headed out into the elements tomorrow to preg some fall transfers!
We were able to test our yearling bulls this morning. We have been heavily implementing sexed semen at home and we cut quite a few bulls last summer to decrease inputs with the drought. The few that escaped the knife are looking good and most are already spoken for. The kids kept a couple of steer projects that you might see if you stop by the facility!
