Well today is going to be a little busy at the farm. Ryan has an "Excellent" 92 point Jersey cow that is getting flushed today. I know that sounds abit weird but what it is, is she was super ovulated last week and then Ryan artificially inseminated her a couple of times in hopes that she made many fertile eggs that today, they will flush out of her and implant them in recipient cows that were in heat the same day she originially was. Confused yet? We have to watch the herd and track those that were in heat the same day so when we implant these fertile eggs they will be in the same cycle time she was when she "concieved" them. Ryan is in hopes that maybe some stud will be interested in a bull from her. She is quite a good cow. All for the furtherance of the herd. We don't do this all by ourselves, we have a genetic specialist vet come to do the flushing and the implants. If we get more eggs than we have recipients they freeze them for us to put in at a later date. If we don't have enough eggs we have some frozen from the last cow that we flushed last year that we will put in so the recipients won't be wasted. Does this sound like a typical day at the farm?

Yesterday we had 2 heifers that were overdue so Dennis induced them. He actually induced them the day before. They both had huge heifers, we had to pull both of them because the mothers were having trouble. I helped with the first one but the second one Ryan had to come help while I milked with Kyle. Dennis and Ryan have used "sexed" semen for the last year and it has been very successful for us. I think we have only have had 2 or 3 bulls out of all the sexed semen he as used and he has used alot. I told him to cut it out!!! We are very full with heifer calves. He said he would cut back for a bit

Well I guess that is all for today. Not much else going on.

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