Four weeks we've been waiting. We put beefy in with Christina hoping to catch her going into heat so we could gauge her cycles and get her pregnant. But nothing's happened. Four weeks we've been waiting. And then today, something happened.
As we were sitting at lunch, Christina walked out of her shed, waited for beefy to jump on her, stood for it, and then walked over to the fence and looked right at us expectantly. We figured she was thinking, "I've shown ya, now go get me that funny looking bull." In all the excitement, the girls said, "oh yeah, we think Christina might be in heat," and then told a story from the morning.
We called the AI guy (artificial insemination). He arrived at 5pm and got the job done. This evening we pray for a pregnant cow.
If this did the job, her due date will be October 24th. That's a little early, but we figure that we want room in case it doesn't take this time. We'll be watching for heat in early February and if she makes it to March without heat symptoms, we'll call it a success.
These are the excitements of our lives. It truly is excitement. When I posted on Facebook that Christina was in heat, a friend who is a long-time rancher said, "did you ever think 10 years ago that having a cow in heat would be the highlight of your day???" No it didn't, but it sure was!
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