Aug 24, 2008 21:44
Today I attended a goat conference for work. The day started off with a tour of one goat farm, and ended at a tour of a goat dairy, where we watched an artificial insemination demonstration.
The whole thing made me feel incredibly weird. Here I was, sitting in a garage with a bunch of goat breeders. The goat breeder's association had provided snacks, so we were even eating potato chips and sitting on lawn chairs.I watched with a crowd of people as the guy lubed up the specula, and inserted it into the goat's vagina. I even got to look at the goat's cervix.
Watching the whole procedure reminded me of a visit to the gynecologist.
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You get to hear weird stories from AI technicians. Apparently one sheep farmer got his whole flock to go into heat with hormones. A ram got loose, bust into the pen full of ewes in heat, and knocked up 89 of them. He then died three days later from overexertion.
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