Hugh FW

[SlugLobber]

p.s. birthing was imminent in my case, but to be honest, I think both passages are equally squidgy, lol!

[Hilary B]

Don't knock it until you've tried it. I'm trying to think of what this compares to, but alas, there's nothing.

Actually, Paul, to check for in calf mooers, you DO search up the butt - it's only when birthing is imminent that you go up the other route!

Very true. Ruminants have strange digestive systems, hence the only way a change in the reproductive bits can be detected is from 'in the other bit'.

[jacob marley]

The AI man always stick one arm up the but to steer the tube with the expensive juice in to make the mrs cow's into mommy cow's .
Or as one cow say's to her mate that's right clara straight up no Bull....jacob

[jacob marley]

A funny little story about the AI man a few years ago i went over to a mate's smallholding to give a hand with collecting straw bale's up for the cow's winter bedding and when i arrived there there was another mate and his wife waiting to start sraw carting .
Any way Dorris my mate's wife came out of the house with a bucket of warm water a scrubbing brush and a towel.
She said the AI man is comming he need's these my other mate's wife Mary say's what is the brush for and was told he need's it to do the job.
He arrived got the straw of baby making juice out of the flask in the boot and it was put down his back to thaw out and he put his long glove's on and whet into the cowshed to do the deed .
My mate held the cow's tail up to keep it out of way and the arm whent up the But and the other had got the straw into the syringe to inseminate the cow and inserted it into the right place and the other hand steered it in to place and squirted the stuff in .
he then took both arms out of the cow took his glove's of got hold of the brush and brushed the front of his waterproof gown and Mary's face was a picture she had been thinking all sort's of thing's....jacob

[SlugLobber]

That reminds me of another funny story, involving left over stallion semen in a syringe, a mare and a would-be breeder. A girl had received frozen semen for AI of her mare, and they had sent enough for two attempts. The first attempt was fine, so half was left over. Another owner on the same yard had been planning to have her mare served, so seized the opportunity and took the left over syringe.

When they tried to inseminate, for some reason the syringe plunger wouldn't work, so they removed it and the owner tried to BLOW the semen through the syringe. Only the mare farted...

...I'll stop there, as it IS lunch time, lol! All true, though.