Help! first time hatching!

[Lacrystol]

No harm in telling someone what type of pool they should look for.

-Kathy

No there isn't but let's think about the situation first!!

 

[18angovem]

^ This. Owning a bull is no day at the picnic...they're even worse than having an ungelded, untrained stallion!

At least I was lucky enough that my bull is nice. But, still a bull and I cant turn my back on him for once second in his pen! Quick story: So he normally has a auto waterer in his pen but it froze due to cold so I have to carry water in buckets to him and I was filling up his water and the power went out so I am standing in the middle of a bull pen in the dark and if I make a single move the bull might mistake me for a threat and attack me.. or he may just move over to get a drink and knock me on the ground and trample me... I just stood there not moving for about 20 minutes till the light came back on! It was pretty frightening! I do have one cow who is even worse and knocked me down 4 steps onto a concrete slab. Luckily I wasnt hurt seriously.

 

[Lacrystol]

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Do you mean let the cows breed with the bulls naturally? Well for one you can buy good pedigree semen so that your calves will sell for more if they are bulls and if they are girls they will have better characterstics. A heifer with good characteristics will have an easier time giving birth due to a straighter back and wider hips and will have a more upright udder and can be milked longer. For second you don't have to pay to feed and keep a big bull. Also you don't have to deal with a bull. I do have a bull now due to having trouble with getting all boys. (I think that the "Straight run" semen was straight run and the leftover boy semen. Also you don't really inject them..... More like insert stuff into them....

So you basically keep the girls pregnant to continue producing milk? do the girls ever get a break from it or as soon as they pop out a baby boom the process starts all over. Taken a device and inserting it is basically injecting them don't care how you sugar coat it. So glad I don't have cows lol.

 

[18angovem]

Personally I would let my horses breed with each other so that makes no sence.

If you have ever owned a bull or stallion you know how much work/money/ and stress it is to own one. It is MUCH easier to go with AI (Artificial Insemination). Also with the natural way there are dangers. Twice since I have got my bull he has mounted a cow and the cow was in a weird position when mounted and hurt or broke its hip. One of the cows had to be sent for meant because a broken hip in cows cannot be fixed. The other cow just severely bruised the hip and is ok but had to stop being milked and I lost all money that could have been made from her milk.

 

[18angovem]

So you basically keep the girls pregnant to continue producing milk? do the girls ever get a break from it or as soon as they pop out a baby boom the process starts all over.

Taken a device and inserting it is basically injecting them don't care how you sugar coat it.

So glad I don't have cows lol.

Well they get a two month break from milking before having a calf. They have to have a calf to produce milk so sorta yes you keep them pregnant to produce milk. But it also doesnt make sense to keep a cow and not have it be pregnant.... I thought you thought that we just injected semen like into their side or something not directly into the vagina.

 

[casportpony]

 

Why not let the cows do it themselves why do you have to inject them??

Do you mean let the cows breed with the bulls naturally? Well for one you can buy good pedigree semen so that your calves will sell for more if they are bulls and if they are girls they will have better characterstics. A heifer with good characteristics will have an easier time giving birth due to a straighter back and wider hips and will have a more upright udder and can be milked longer. For second you don't have to pay to feed and keep a big bull. Also you don't have to deal with a bull. I do have a bull now due to having trouble with getting all boys. (I think that the "Straight run" semen was straight run and the leftover boy semen. Also you don't really inject them..... More like insert stuff into them....

^ This. Owning a bull is no day at the picnic...they're even worse than having an ungelded, untrained stallion!

Exactly! We happen to have two studs, but neither are what I would call stud quality, so both are scheduled for brain surgery, lol.

-Kathy


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[18angovem]

So you basically keep the girls pregnant to continue producing milk? do the girls ever get a break from it or as soon as they pop out a baby boom the process starts all over.

Taken a device and inserting it is basically injecting them don't care how you sugar coat it.

So glad I don't have cows lol.

Really, cows are the best! It is sooo exciting when a new calf is born and they hop around all happy. I also think it is fun to milk a cow by hand! You can get pretty good at it and almost beat the machine!

 

[18angovem]

Exactly! We happen to have two studs, but neither are what I would call stud quality, so both are scheduled for brain surgery, lol.

-Kathy


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Brain surgery? You have two stud stallions? I used to be a partner in a horse breeding business before the horse market crashed and we had two stud stallions and they were horrors! They had to be kept in an entirely different barn and entirely different pastures and then the two studs had to be kept seperate as well! I miss owning all those horses... We had 40 counting stallions. All thoroughbreds or quarter horses. Except one appaloosa kept for a pet... I had to sell them all when the horse market crashed.... I only kept the appaloosa and she died of collic about 7 yrs ago...

 

[Amykins]

Really, cows are the best! It is sooo exciting when a new calf is born and they hop around all happy. I also think it is fun to milk a cow by hand! You can get pretty good at it and almost beat the machine!

My great-aunts had a dairy farm, one of my favorite memories is getting to hold a newborn calf and having it suckle my thumb. It felt so weird, there's no way to describe it!

Also Lacry, it's really not as bad as you make it sound. A cow's...erm...yeeeah is rather large. I've never seen a cow so much as flinch during the process. They literally don't even register it as anything, I don't even know if they can feel it!

 

[casportpony]

Probably for some of the same reasons you would for horses.

-Kathy

Personally I would let my horses breed with each other so that makes no sence.

I mean this in a nice way... How many stallions and mares do you own?

-Kathy