{"id":4885,"date":"2016-05-17T08:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4885"},"modified":"2016-05-17T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:05:11","slug":"heat-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/heat-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat checking…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….as we get ready to implant our latest embryos\u00a0\"IMG_0529\"<\/a>from England.\u00a0 We’re using our best cows for this project.\u00a0 The CIDRs were pulled just last weekend and this was the first time we could detect heat.<\/p>\n

Of the 16 cows we’re prepping, 10 came into heat today.\u00a0 Eight days from that point\u00a0we’ll be implanting the embryos and then a tense time as we await the results.<\/p>\n

For our city friends: this is what we are looking for.\u00a0 The 8-day clock starts running now.\"IMG_0536\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The embryos are waiting in a canister a few miles away…eggs that were fertilized in a mating of cows and a bull we selected for their conformation and pure Devon genetics.\u00a0 That was six months ago in a farm clinic near Cambridge, England.\u00a0 The females were two cows that we purchased from Ashott-Barton farm; the bull (long dead) was from Cutcombe farm.\u00a0 (He thoughtfully left behind a supply of semen.)<\/p>\n

We’re using our own best cows as recips because experience has lead us to believe the recip is at least as important as the donor cow and bull.\u00a0 The average success rate for this procedure is about 50%…but it can be as low as zero.\u00a0 An expensive crap shoot.<\/p>\n

But we love the results we’ve been getting!\u00a0 (see\u00a0home page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….as we get ready to implant our latest embryos\u00a0from England.\u00a0 We’re using our best cows for this project.\u00a0 The CIDRs were pulled just last weekend and this was the first time we could detect heat. Of the 16 cows we’re prepping, 10 came into heat today.\u00a0 Eight days from that point\u00a0we’ll be implanting the embryos and then a tense time as we await the results. For our city friends: this is what we are looking for.\u00a0 The 8-day clock starts running now. The embryos are waiting in a canister a few miles away…eggs that were fertilized in a mating of cows and a bull we selected for their conformation and pure Devon genetics.\u00a0 That was six months ago in a farm clinic near Cambridge, England.\u00a0 The females were two cows that we purchased from Ashott-Barton farm; the bull (long dead) was from Cutcombe farm.\u00a0 (He thoughtfully left behind a supply of semen.) We’re using our own best cows as recips because experience has lead us to believe the recip is at least as important as the donor cow and bull.\u00a0 The average success rate for this procedure is about 50%…but it can be as low as zero.\u00a0 An expensive crap shoot. But we love the results we’ve been getting!\u00a0 (see\u00a0home page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","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=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}