01/04/2025
We love visiting all the local dairies! 🤩
Shout-out to Lisa and Nicho at Castillo Cattle Co. for AI-ing three of our girls!
In the past, we couldn't find anyone to come to the farm to breed our cows, so we had to trek two at a time to 3 different appointments at one of our vet's offices over a 10 days period to (hopefully) get them bred.
It cost us SO much time (and money + gas) to get to all the appointments and was a huge inconvenience.
It's also WAY less stressful for the cows to do two 10 minute appointments instead of being transported to the vet 3 times and staying for 10 hours.
AI-ing at the vet failed for both girls this year, likely because of the strict timed schedule they required for breeding. Our girls were going into standing heat the day before their scheduled appointments, meaning we were wasting money in the "baby daddy" straws and appointments for them to have a super low success rate if pregnancy.
Castillo Cattle Co. came and did a late night 8pm appointment with us for the best success rate to get three of our girls bred.
We'll be able to do an at home pregnancy test in 30 days to see if they're pregnant. If so, we'll have calves in late September/early October!
Lisa & Nicho will be out again next month to breed our next heifer, Lilo.
This was also a big milestone for us because we are breeding Juniper, our first bred-on-farm and born-on-farm heifer!
Her calf will be the firstborn of our 2nd generation Blue Cow Farm dairy stock! It's great to see our hard work in raising these babies (now heifers) come to fruition.
Store is RESTOCKED! Next week we return to our usual restock times of Mondays 8am, Wednesdays 8am, and Friday afternoons.
ONLINE STORE for MEMBERS:
https://blue-cow-farm.localline.ca/