This first year of cow having has involved a bit of a learning curve and now we're at the point of needing to breed her to keep the milk flowing in. A newly unexplored curve to learn. We are wanting to breed her with a pure bred Dexter and since there's not a Dexter bull within sight, or smell, for miles and miles around we are going the artificial insemination route. Lo and behold, little Miss Daisy came into heat last night, about twelve hours earlier than expected, resulting with a frantic call to the AI guy to quickly come over for we don't want to miss this tiny window again.
So when we were first in talks with AI guy he said he had no problem finding some Dexter fixing's but it turned out his sources couldn't come up with some (Please excuse the puns that happen without me even trying that hard. Damn my super pun powers!). So I told him to leave it to me. I'll source some out. What an investigation that was. I met a lady in Ontario who's really into this breed and she helped me out loads (again, sorry!). But eventually my journey landed me some seeds just out of Vancouver and when I shared my findings with my Ontario contact she informed me I apparently won me the Dexter semen lottery.
(AI guy wishes to remain anoynamous which got me pretty excited because I always wanted to use this mysterious pixalated effect). So that's how our paths crossed with (insert harps strings shortly followed by Star Wars-style laser gun sound effects)... Galaxy. According to my Ontario contact I found me some of the most primo, gorgeous, perfectly perfect Dexter bull on the planet. The Brad Pitt of Dexter cattle if you will. So when I called back the vet I found on the west coast who provided me with three identification numbers to choose from I tried to play it cool with my findings. "Sure, I'll take number 3948723487234798sedr2394, but whatevah. All mumble jumble to me. I'll take twenty vials of that one. Coo."
Back to the nitty gritty that happened this morning, Daisy was such a little trouper. She didn't even make a moo; just had that "is that a pee I'm taking?" look on her face I always like to impersonate and stood perfectly still through it all. And so if all goes well, crossing my pink gloved fingers here (AI guy gifted me one of those pretty long gloves as a souvenir) we'll have a sweet baby purebred Dexter in late July! Hopefully a little lady so we can pass on another awesome milk cow to a friend (wink ~ you know who you are). Plus can't wait to be swimming in all that milk again. Right now she's back to two latte plus some left over for yogurt status which is just right. I tell you, she's the perfect cow for us! How I love my little girl :)
