Preg Testing

Last Saturday we preg tested our cows, it was actually a beautiful day...no wind and above 0!!!!  Jared had spent many long hours through the week getting everything ready. He and Emry finished building a new alley that would hold all the cows. He tore out dead caraganas so he could reroute the cull cows to a different field. He bought panels and a gate and installed all those. He got new tags ready for the heifers who had the same number as their mom. He worked for hours on the computer making sure everything was in order for each cow, referencing it to his birth logs.  He got needles and more deworming spray so we wouldn't be caught short.  All his hard work and long hours really paid off.  The alley was amazing and worked like a charm.  The vet didn't have to wait for us to bring the next group up nor did he have to help us!!!! 

We had the whole Puzey clan there to help this year.  The day worked with Char and the girls basketball schedule!! Dave brought cows up through the alley in smaller groups while the kids helped push them along through the shoot. I recorded whether the cow was pregnant or open (I'm not sure why this term is used when a cow isn't pregnant), and any other notes I thought were relevant to the cow.  Jared ran the squeeze, tagged the cows who needed new tags, vaccinated those who needed vaccinated and sprayed the pregnant cows with the deworming medicine.  Char found the right tag Jared needed and got the tagger ready for him.  We all worked together and we were able to wrap it up in just 2 hours!!!!

I had made hamburger soup and Myrna made buns and we all headed back to our place for lunch, including the vet!!!! Arren was watching the boys so that took my mind off how they held up through us being outside!!!  It was a good day with great results.  100% of our main herd tested pregnant.  We had 4 open heifers out of 17, and we ended up selling 4 cows from the main herd because of their behaviour.  So we only culled 8 cows, not bad at all!!! It was a great day, with great weather and great company!!!!!