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We started our breeding program in 1992.
For Ninnymary: Another one hits the ground (birth)
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bobm
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SeedO, Try this as just one example of a bubble butt and why one has to be in attendance for an unexpected event when all alone out on the farm ... I was all alone on a Sunday morning in the lower 40, raining cats and dogs, mud beyond ankle deep, each step added another 10 lbs of mud onto the rubber boots, wild heifer decides her calf is all baked and ready to pop. The Wild Hereford heifer had a foot pokeing out from under her tail decides that the barn is no place to be when she can introduce her calf to the joys of being born into a mud bath. I had to rope her, she decides not to budge even a 1/4 inch, so I had to tie her to a fence post, go get a small chain as I couldn't get a good grip being everything is all wet and slimy ,take my coat off, roll up my shirt sleeve and insert my arm in to my elbow then search for the calf's other leg, bring it out as far as I could and attach the small chain onto the calf's ankle, and PULL with all my might for what seamed like forever, then finally the calf came slithering out. I carried the HUGE 93 lb. calf for a couple hundred yards with the heifer in hot pursuit . When I got into the barn, put iodine on the calf's navel , put a fresh bale of straw into a pen , rubbed the calf dry as best as I could with a gunny sack, then mamma heifer finished licking her calf dry. I then had a hot shower and a
of hot toddy to warm up. 
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When ever I have a litter, woman who have had childern, are like that poor mother, labor and birth 6 times in a row!!!
baymule
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WOW! I'm more like, "Got any pictures of you having puppies?"
baymule
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@bobm I know exactly what you are talking about. I have the "Been There, Done That" T-shirt. It might have something to do with me wanting sheep this go-round instead of cows. I fully expect to go diving for lambs up to my armpit, but maybe smaller size will be easier. Or the dummies could just have their babies without getting them sideways.....
baymule
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That answered my question, you are raising seedstock for others to get established in your favorite breed, not just getting started yourself.
