Depends on what you are doing; milking, moving etc. I have seen guys killed by bull and an angry cow. They are not sweet and cuddly. We send between 2K and 3K head per year to market. We laso have a number of Bulls standing as well as buy Sperm from ABS.
You have never lived until you have artificially insemminated a cow
My husband's family has a ranch and raises cattle. It's in the southern part of the state. He never lived on it. His uncle is the full-time rancher. I've never insemminated a cow but I did watch my husband and his cousin try to save a cow and calf out in the pasture when the calf just wouldn't get born. They ended up tying a rope to the calf and pulling it with the truck. It was already dead prior to that but they had to get it out of the mother. The mother survived. I was convinced then and there that that life wasn't for me. My husband wanted to be a small-town physician and us live near the ranch but that didn't pan out. He was disappointed but I was silently happy. He never knew how much I didn't want to be a small-town doctor's wife. Back then, that came with responsibilities of its own.
Thriftymaid understand not wanting to be in a small town. I excaped successfully my cousins now own the ranch, I am only an investor/silent partner. As I am older and on a second family, we are considering moving to a small town given the descending craziness of current times
Now at 16 I shattered a wrist trying and successfully turning a Quarter Horse foal so it was not breach. I timed the contractions wrong. The foal, mare, and me did well.
Inseminating cows is something I would want a hand in doing .........it's a good job I'm so short and that these type of jobs are out of reach for me..... On the udder hard ,I could stoop to be a Milk Maid I suppose....:)
Nice jugs being short means you would be perfect in collecting the Semen, it is after all a Hand Job. As far as the heifers go it would udderly possibly for you with modern equipment to inseminate same
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