AI Process & Fences
On Tuesday Dad helped put up two more electric netting fences in our neighbour's place to guide the cows up to their cattle yards. It was a bit wild and stormy but we managed. The AI girl checked Lady and said she seemed to have all the necessary reproductive bits. She also put our NLS tags on Brownie, Sandy and Star. Then injected Lady, Sandy and Brownie to bring on their cycles. This evening when I went out to check, Sandy's heat patch was red but after talking to the AI girl we think she may have rubbed her back on a branch of the only tree in the paddock. So without another heat patch we are only relying on observation to tell when she is ready. It's a bit hit and miss, but we'll see how we go.
The fence guys didn't come on Monday because it was raining and then they didn't turn up today when they had rescheduled. It's not looking good for these fences. I really want to move the cows to the Dam Paddock when this AI business is over and I don't want to do that without the fence in front of the sheep yards.