I don’t spend as much time with goat peeps as I used to. \u00a0And that is probably a good thing. \u00a0But I dang sure enjoy it when I get to have a day with some great ones.<\/p>\n
Sure. \u00a0We had school today but I didn’t. \u00a0When I hired on to this gig, I made it clear that there would be times that I couldn’t be there. \u00a0No problem. \u00a0Plus, I put in my weekends and overtime. \u00a0It all evens out. \u00a0Not really, but I keep telling myself that.<\/p>\n
I spent Tuesday in Goodwell, OK at the Oklahoma Panhandle State University FFA Interscholastics. \u00a0The Shattuck FFA hauled 48 students to this contest. \u00a0We did well, real well in some areas and could have done better in others. \u00a0All in all, I was pleased with the students. \u00a0We also enjoyed the opportunity to attend this event. \u00a0I made it home some time after midnight.<\/p>\n
I made it to school for a bit on Wednesday then I headed east. \u00a0East to Fargo to load does and head to Cleo Springs. \u00a0Amy & Carli Word had inquired about flushing and AIing does. \u00a0So we went to Bob & Jodi Seelke’s. \u00a0It was as expected\u2026only better. \u00a0Braden was in a pissy mood. \u00a0Darbi Ross was great help. \u00a0Bob was in perfect form. \u00a0It was awesome.<\/p>\n
And then Jodi had lunch ready. \u00a0Boneless beef ribs with bbq beans, corn and home-made bbq sauce. \u00a0OH SNAP! \u00a0I only ate two plate FULLS. \u00a0 Then she offered up home-made Mexican vanilla ice cream with red velvet cake. \u00a0I abstained. \u00a0I was already at maximum capacity and knew that the fresh ice cream would tear me up. \u00a0But, everybody else was hooked on this ice cream and cake. \u00a0I could smell the vanilla in it.<\/p>\n
The crew doing the technical work was great to deal with. \u00a0Who? \u00a0I don’t want to jinx anything. \u00a0But they were especially great with Carli and let her get involved. \u00a0I always like it when people take time to teach a kid. \u00a0It pays off for all involved.<\/p>\n
Oh, Carli had never met Bob Seelke before. \u00a0On the way to Cleo Springs, I told her that Bob was quiet and hardly ever talked. \u00a0HAAA!!!!! Carli is a super quiet kid but she was even laughing and telling Bob stories on the ride home. \u00a0 Bob has taken off work for 5 straight days. \u00a0He is a bit wound. \u00a0Everybody was teasing Jodi about how she was going to handle 5 straight days of Bob. She laughed and said, “How do you think the obituary will read?” \u00a0 We all laughed and said, “Anybody that knew him would say that it was justified.”<\/p>\n
If you can’t tell, I had fun today. \u00a0Don’t know yet how to feel about the work that was done but time will tell. \u00a0But, as usual, I did learn something.<\/p>\n
I had bought some name-brand-not-cheap semen. \u00a0I wanted it checked as we were working. \u00a0They had a tablet with the iSperm app on it. \u00a0Yep, put a drop of sperm in the screw on light and it works like a microscope. \u00a0Then you hit “analyze” and it counts concentration of sperm cells, tests motility and abnormalities. \u00a0It was wicked bad ass cool. \u00a0That purchased semen\u2026eeeennnhhh\u2026decent but not good. \u00a0Not good enough to sell but\u2026..the check was cashed months ago. \u00a0Should have 50% on frozen semen–maybe half of that can settle a doe but\u2026.<\/p>\n
So, I then had them thaw some 7 year old Fade2Black straws\u2026cool deal it was almost 60% motility. \u00a0Cool. \u00a0Then, I said “Breed the rest to that Rumour Has It buck.” \u00a0Bob nor I even bothered to go look at the semen test. Didn’t need to. They thawed it and put a drop on the slide. \u00a0The technician, Darbi, Amy and Jodi all screamed, “Dang, it looks like it is trying to swim off the screen!” \u00a0 70+% motility. \u00a0If my luck holds true with this high maintenance goat management then nothing will stick except for the spanish\/nubian cross that we bred for the neighbor hoping for quint doe kids.<\/p>\n
I sometimes shake my head when dealing with REI but I cannot dispute that they do a good job of putting up semen. \u00a0I’ve sold quite a bit of goat semen over the years with very few complaints and I made every one of those deals right even though it was probably operator error. \u00a0Thus the reason that I have REI collect and store the semen.<\/p>\n
Did I mention that Jodi prepared one helluva lunch? \u00a0And that Bob made me laugh? \u00a0And that I learned something(s)? \u00a0I watched a kid and a parent learn why good goats cost so dang much. \u00a0And I had fun. \u00a0Dang dude.<\/p>\n
It’s all good. \u00a0Until I realize that I’m going to have to use the neighbors buck. \u00a0He is a well bred kind of deal: “The neighbor thinks that he bought him in Goldthwaite, Perry, Dodge or San Angelo at a sale. \u00a0He came with some pink papers that said he is a Spanish\/900\/Gallagher\/191\/Animal\/Bingo\/Helms\/Ibex\/Pfeiffer\/Hutto deal that was an aborted embryo that would have been a twin to the grand or reserve at either the ’09 or ‘011 show that was in Kansas City or Houston or maybe Huntoon, Tx. \u00a0Who knows? \u00a0Got to be good. \u00a0All I wanted to know about him was: \u00a0“How come he don’t have no ears and why does the scrapies tag show that he is from Florida?<\/p>\n
You better think about it. \u00a0 Think. \u00a0Think. \u00a0 Hunh?! \u00a0 Where did they put that scrapies tag?<\/p>\n
I’m done. \u00a0For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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