{"id":812,"date":"2013-12-12T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T03:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-12-12T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T03:38:35","slug":"sugar-begets-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/sugar-begets-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar begets Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breeding cows is an art. \u00a0Well at least knowing when the cow is in heat is tough without a bull or steer around is. \u00a0When the cows are in heat they push noses, lick, and jump on each other- so you are pretty sure one of them is in heat- but knowing which one is the trick. \u00a0I am telling you this because we didn&#8217;t really want a December birth- but we got one. \u00a0Mainly because we could never get the timing right on when to breed her. \u00a0Last Sunday morning, with temperatures around 20 below, Sugar gave birth to Cookie. \u00a0Anita found her around 6 in the morning covered in a thin sheet of ice where mama&#8217;s saliva had frozen to her fur. \u00a0Her ears were so frozen we couldn&#8217;t bend them.<\/p>\n<p>We spent some time drying her off in the corral that was filled with a couple feet of straw- but her temperature was not coming up. \u00a0So we brought her into the house which was a balmy 45 above (another story). \u00a0We parked her on Hazel&#8217;s lap wrapped with towels, blankets and a heating pad. \u00a0Lillian ran back and forth to the dryer to refresh warm towels. \u00a0Cookie was calm\/frozen during all this. \u00a0The good news was she warmed up and was holding her heat. \u00a0So back to Sugar, we packed her, to try to get some colostrum in her. \u00a0She fumbled around and I shot plenty of milk up her nose but she was doing alright for only being a couple hours old. \u00a0We let mama take over for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>That night she slept in the bathroom&#8230;.and the next night, too. \u00a0Now she is running all over snow covered fields with mama. \u00a0All is well with both Sugar and Cookie. \u00a0We are also getting plenty of milk out of both Sugar and Maisy (the ladies produce way more than the babies can drink). \u00a0So we have a new member on the farm- welcome her!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC02635.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-814\" alt=\"DSC02635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC02635-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC02635-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC02635.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breeding cows is an art. \u00a0Well at least knowing when the cow is in heat is tough without a bull or steer around is. \u00a0When the cows are in heat they push noses, lick, and jump on each other- so you are pretty sure one of them is in heat- but knowing which one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[154,155],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","tag-cow-breeding","tag-dairy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}