{"id":382,"date":"2012-01-10T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2012-01-10T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:24:03","slug":"sticking-to-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/sticking-to-the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticking to the plan…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Once you start the process of embryo transplants or artificial insemination, you have to stay on schedule.\u00a0 And again this year, as it has for the past two, Nature decided to see just how serious we were about this business.<\/p>\n

The cows certainly kept to their schedule despite the snow; they went into heat early in the morning and now at the end of the day were ready for artificial insemination.\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Once again, Rose Hill Veterinary Clinic’s\u00a0Jane Narrimore was in the chute.\u00a0 At least Jane could drive to work.\u00a0 Last year we had to load her boss, Dr. Tom Massey, into\u00a0our tractor’s front loader with all his paraphernalia, and plow through the snow to the chute.\u00a0 The bull we’re using is a great English champion, Cutcombe Jaunty.\u00a0 Actually, he’s been dead for a number of year’s but his semen had been frozen for future use.<\/p>\n

The next “non-negotiable” date on the schedule is a week away.\u00a0 That’s when we bring the cows back in and select five of the seven which should be ready for embryo transplants.\u00a0 This time the target is to hit the hour, if not the minute.\u00a0 Once we’ve done that, we let the bull into the pasture and he finishes anything we haven’t.<\/p>\n

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Once you start the process of embryo transplants or artificial insemination, you have to stay on schedule.\u00a0 And again this year, as it has for the past two, Nature decided to see just how serious we were about this business. The cows certainly kept to their schedule despite the snow; they went into heat early in the morning and now at the end of the day were ready for artificial insemination.\u00a0\u00a0 Once again, Rose Hill Veterinary Clinic’s\u00a0Jane Narrimore was in the chute.\u00a0 At least Jane could drive to work.\u00a0 Last year we had to load her boss, Dr. Tom Massey, into\u00a0our tractor’s front loader with all his paraphernalia, and plow through the snow to the chute.\u00a0 The bull we’re using is a great English champion, Cutcombe Jaunty.\u00a0 Actually, he’s been dead for a number of year’s but his semen had been frozen for future use. The next “non-negotiable” date on the schedule is a week away.\u00a0 That’s when we bring the cows back in and select five of the seven which should be ready for embryo transplants.\u00a0 This time the target is to hit the hour, if not the minute.\u00a0 Once we’ve done that, we let the bull into the pasture and he finishes anything we haven’t.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}