It seems like your stantion floor is a little slick with the rubber floor mat. If you could give her a more textured floor so she doesn't slip as much, she may stand better for you. I realize that armchair quarterbacking is much easier. However, one thing that we did was to find some confinement hog flooring, which is a heavy wire mesh and lay that over the top of your rubber mat. If you then bolt that wire mesh over the top of it, it will make it a little more difficult to spray off, but she will not slip when she stands on it. I hope that this helps.

@AlemanFamilyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation! You are correct, she does slip a lot on the rubber mat. It is interesting, our last milk cow never slipped on it. Annabelle likes to kick and step. I like the idea of giving her more texture but I am not sure I want the cleaning process to take more water/time. We don't have a drainage system in the stantion area so more water will cause more of a flooding issue on the ground. I will take a look though! Where did you pick up the hog floor?

@zanepekron9825

Ай бұрын

@@AlemanFamilyHomestead There is a hog barn that is near our place. If I remember correctly, the local welding shop had gotten some old hog flooring from somewhere and we bought it from them. I understand the not wanting to make more work cleaning. What if you built a metal floor/ grate, however you wish, but build it about 3 inches above your floor. If the manure and other stuff can fall through then you could just scrape it out underneath. Another option is that they make rubber floor mats that are made out of an interweave of old tires. There are a lot of different options available and you can just find or build what works. On another note, if you decide to ever rebuild your stantion, if you make your posts taller and tie them all across the top with boards, then the posts will not move or flex as much. I just noticed that it moves around a bit and we have found when we build corrals that if you bolt or nail planks across the top of your posts, it makes it more study. Good luck.

@AlemanFamilyHomestead

Ай бұрын

@@zanepekron9825 Thanks for all of the info! The station was originally built as a portable stantion because we weren't sure where we were going to put it. It has tires on the front of it. We have talked about throwing some kickers on it to stabilize. Our last cow was not as crazy in it so it was never an issue. We appreciate all of the feedback!

It also helps if thier in heat when you ai

@AlemanFamilyHomestead

3 ай бұрын

We had to trigger Annabelle this go around in order to make sure she was in heat.

@rhondaskiles5740

3 ай бұрын

@AlemanFamilyHomestead when cows are in heat they have a bloody discharge like all mammals

Hi, please upload full video of AI without cutting and editing please

@AlemanFamilyHomestead

Ай бұрын

Hi - We are going to AI again in the next month or so. We can upload a full video then!

Hi can you make again a cow insemination video?

@AlemanFamilyHomestead

2 ай бұрын

Hi - We will be inseminating our beef mama again in a few months, I can do another video then. We have 2 other AI videos, I will post links below

@AlemanFamilyHomestead

2 ай бұрын

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@AlemanFamilyHomestead

2 ай бұрын

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You’ll be lucky if she holds to any service/breeding in that condition. A beautiful cow, but they need to be on a rising plane of nutrition and probably at least one condition score more than she is in this clip.

@AlemanFamilyHomestead

18 күн бұрын

Thank you for the feedback. We have the cows on free choice minerals and were out of a few minerals at this time. A great reminder to keep up with the minerals!