the vet is on her way gonna be here in 45 minutes i'm pretty sure the pregnancy tests you
she's going in first we well we put the heifers in the stall the heifers and a little surprise how
you doing a little surprise the problem is he's wild he's lucky because he's not handled is he
she's up for harvest since he's three months old when was he born
do you remember rebecca will know next up phyllis we're gonna put her in the overhang
right out there
next up we got to put our mat down on the stanchion here's the map the kids say
the heifers have been chewing it and it looks like that's the case
they just called and said they'll be here in 45. she's talking about the vet we're getting
phyllis pregnancy test we never noticed like a breeding session looks like she looks pregnant
that's why i was thinking it's strange that the heifers are chewing on that it's one of two things
one they're in search of something so probably a mineral so maybe a little mineral deficient
the other thing it could possibly be is boredom they've been in here this is their winter housing
and it's the end look you can see grass is coming starting to come back up that time
of the year they're bored they're chewing on rubber mats we're getting them out very soon
how are your precious doing they are doing so good
that just got here so you're going to do the hand thing huh how many times have you done this bev
a couple
what are you going to be looking for well we're not going to be
looking for anything we're going to be feeling
how will you know if i feel a bump i know there's something in there you'll feel it all right
so we're going to go in the rectangle what you putting on that lube she appreciates this yes she
does she's barely even budging she's still eating she is we're going to clean her out a little
you gotta clean her out cause she's got poop in the track i
can't feel it without with all this in there
where would have been a bull if it happened she may be too old she hasn't cycled back she's gonna
be pregnant i can feel she cotyledons or is it she is pregnant she can feel cotyledons okay okay so
i'm going to call her pregnant by that what's the cotyledons these are the way this way the baby and
the mama communicates the whole unit is called the placental the mama dra has the car uncle and the
baby has the cotyledon so together they that's what keeps the baby growing and everything but
old-timers call it the blooming or the bumps on it on the bumps on the uterus but you can
feel them they're little round things on the inside and you guys think she was bred well
when do you think she was bred so she had her baby in july july 11th she never ever takes
it's at least the first heat but this time it would have been the first heat right
usually about three months is when they breed back yeah
because we run the bowl with her all the time we never separate them out
but she never ever gets pregnant usually he's crazy for her for three days we never
saw that but we never saw it but she did go in heat we noticed the heat so i don't know um
he was crazy for her for half a day we're just trying to figure out when we need to dry her off
because that's why i would probably dry her off within the next uh anytime now okay and if we
dry her off and she's not pregnant though we're screwed because we've dried up our yeah because
that heifer in there and we're not breeding her until july and then we have to wait the whole time
so so if she's not the last trimester is when you would draw them all right all right well we're
going to wait a month and you should be safe you know we're going to trust you babnet she's
pregnant wonderful well bev's going to double check she's back in this time with the ultrasound
these are your cotyledons that we've been talking about and you see the fluid in there
see and that's what i was telling you i can't hardly feel baby because it's so far down
but i can tell by the cotyledons that she is bred so okay and i'm going to go for about like i said
about five months and then that way it'll be safe i would pull the baby off in another month and
or let her dry up in another month and that should give you plenty of time to build milk back up
while she's here why not band joey we're thinking about keeping him attacked i wanted to keep him
intact but if you want to do it you can yeah he's going to be hard to hold down i mean all i have
to do is do one jab will he let me get near him he might while he's doing alfalfa let's do it let me
try it she's gonna go get her supplies hopefully we don't have to be as dramatic as a dart gun
she's gonna give him what she calls happy juice next time we're just gonna do it
yeah we're a little like surprised we'll do surprise while she's here we can hold him down
because we don't want any more surprises the last time she was
out here she actually remember she she had to do a dart gun to nick
to tag him he was we were tagging him because we sold him we sold him he's going out of state
american milking devon roll that dan she's got to get within 30 feet of him get him on the neck
she got him good she didn't miss this is bringing back memories huh yeah it's good to stay in touch
with the bat it is it is good just to so she knows who we are and if we have an emergency
we can we can deal with it emergency no jenna just did some alfalfa
that's it yep wow is he gonna start getting drowsy
hopefully hopefully how long does it take about five minutes
his eyes are drooping he ain't gonna give up that all papa though is he getting wobbly
he is about to close his eyes
just just give him buddy he's like he's like henry he's fighting that sleep there he goes come on
there we go good boy
it's going to require the big one you might want to watch your face if that foot comes out
be real careful y'all she's got the big bander on there
watch your face it's like a rubber huge rubber band
that would be a nice couch it's a cali crate bander
and instead of being just like the band we actually bend this little metal ring around
here and then we cut it loose with this and then be careful that'll hit you in about two weeks it
might take a month as big as these are um but what you got to do is make sure you've got the
testicle and the epididymis in there yeah so we put it right above it and you don't want to go too
high because you don't want to enter the urethra but i usually just go right on top of the balls
okay okay and then that should fall off nice and what's that the reversal is the reversal you're
putting his legs underneath him so he doesn't we don't want him to blow get blows sit him up
on his chest yeah if the cows lay on their side they will bloat could kill him but you're gonna
you're putting his feet under him okay
she's fine she's scared
all right putting phyllis back
we'll see you guys thank you thank you how's your bird doing get in she's sticking with it huh
all right oh yeah she's growling at you that's good i mean she's still broody she's gonna hatch
you some chicks i'm checking on her every day look he's already up in atom good night fellas