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00:00 When cows mount each other, they do this to tell the male that it's the right time for him.
00:08 Alright ladies, ground up.
00:25 Very slow process. Whenever you're milking your cows, it takes a long time.
00:30 You have to go and pick them up and they're slow. It can take an hour, fifteen, twenty-three minutes.
00:35 Come on Jenna, you're always the last one.
00:38 For years and years and years, we have our cows drive away from the cow patch to the pasture.
00:45 Extra walking seems to help the kidneys for foot injury.
00:49 So one of the big improvements we're working on is putting it in cow-wildlife.
00:55 It's going to be probably more than a mile long.
01:04 You've got the whole lot, you can go wherever you want and it's only when you do that.
01:09 Pack it down in the floor.
01:17 This cow highway is going to cut the time in cows.
01:21 It's going to make it quicker for the cows to get up where they can and it's going to make more milk.
01:25 And it's going to make an improvement in the way that we're doing it for the future.
01:29 So it's going to have an impact on future generations.
01:33 This is a geotextile fabric that helps hold the soil down from being erosion.
01:40 And then we'll come over top of this with different layers of gravel and rock.
01:45 Excited like a kid on a Christmas morning.
01:49 Gravel.
01:55 How much did that cost?
01:59 Here on the farm, we have a tight budget.
02:01 You have to pay the bills. That's what gave me white hair.
02:04 We're working as quickly as possible to get this done before winter.
02:09 Before we get in the wet season, which is bad for cow's feet.
02:13 We're racing against the clock, but we're going to do our best to get it done.
02:18 So today we're going to check her together to see what cows need me.
02:28 We're going to do my weekly walkthrough to make sure the girls are ready.
02:32 There they are.
02:35 Where are you, Hershey?
02:38 Hershey!
02:41 Me, Hershey.
02:43 How many do you think you have in heat tonight?
02:46 It looks like two, I'd say.
02:48 Okay.
02:50 Well, Hershey's going to tidy the basket.
02:53 Driving up through here, all these patches,
02:56 I noticed that the detection patches were nice and pink.
02:59 It looks like BJ and 82 are in heat.
03:02 Oh, yeah. We'll see how pink they are.
03:05 Yep, they're riding.
03:07 When cows mount each other, it's usually females that are in heat as well.
03:12 They do that to tell the male to see if there's a shoot going on.
03:17 However, we don't have a bull.
03:20 Bulls are extremely dangerous.
03:23 We have some kids on the farm, so we want to have a bull or something dangerous on this premise.
03:28 So that's another thing, it's more efficiently disseminating.
03:31 And you can imagine, if you're a cow,
03:34 if you're in heat, you're more efficiently disseminating.
03:37 It's safer for us.
03:39 And you can really improve the genetic heritage of the herd.
03:42 Absolutely.
03:44 So how do we determine which cows are in heat?
03:47 We put these handy-dandy patches on their backs.
03:50 They are grey. They're like a scratch on a lot of tickets.
03:53 So the action of the rubbing when they're riding
03:56 will rub off the scratch on the ticket and show the colour underneath it,
04:00 which is white.
04:02 Well, you don't have anything.
04:04 Anybody?
04:06 No, nobody's going in.
04:08 There's some in the back. We need to go up that way.
04:11 Yeah, there's definitely, yeah.
04:13 Oh, yeah.
04:15 Getting in the middle here.
04:17 Estrogen is rolling right now.
04:19 We're going to go up the front.
04:22 [whoosh]
04:26 [birds chirping]
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