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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by maryjane[/i] [br]For those of you wondering about cow estrus I should add that my girls' heats last three days. It goes something like this. I write it on my calendar but it seems like it starts one to two days early (or late) some months--anywhere from 18 days apart to 25. The first thing that clues me in is a change in behavior. Thursday morning I was petting Ester Lily and she was kind of aggressive and feisty. It took me a few minutes. Aha! it's that time again. I locked her up. This morning, Saturday, I let her out but she was still a bit flighty and fidgety so I watched my back whenever I was around her. But the worst of it had passed. Here's what her back end looked like a couple of hours ago (Saturday evening). So, on the third day, I see spotting with both her and Miss Daisy. It's a three-day affair for my girls. This morning when I went to milk Miss Daisy, she wouldn't prance into the milking parlor like usual so I had to halter her to bring her in and she wasn't at all interested in grain. She didn't eat even one bite. So now it's her turn to be locked up except for milking. I'll let her out Monday morning. [IMG]https://www.heritagejersey.org/chatroom/uploads/2016/04/IMG_2116(1).jpg?v=17698670[/IMG] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.