My First Time Artificially Inseminating a Goat - and I Didn't Expect This to Happen! 😬

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[@thepumpkinshow]

Absolutely love you guys channel. I wanna grow up and have the land like you.❤❤❤❤

[@Zeida-v8x]

I want to tell y’all something My life is rlly hard rn cuz me parents keep on fighting and taking about going to court

[@thepumpkinshow]

​@@Zeida-v8x it's ok you'll get through this ❤

[@CatLover-cy3uh]

Hey you realize your aloud to show the breeding on camera…..

[@Zeida-v8x]

@@thepumpkinshow thanks

[@sokibuscus4998]

It's fun watching this as an embryologist. The struggle with getting straws out of the tank is too real lol (sometimes i just grab it with my bare hands, we don't wear gloves bc there used to be a chemical in the gloves that embryos were sensitive to)

[@sokibuscus4998]

Also, the issue with the dead frozen sperm could be a few things. It might be that that buck's sperm just don't freeze well, as it can vary drastically between individuals. It also could be that the straws thawed a little in the process of transport (I don't remember how you got the straws so this might not be true). But thawing and refreezing even a little can be devestating for sperm. This is just from my experience in bovine but I've never worked with goats so it might be different :)

[@m.m.oldenburg9849]

​​@@sokibuscus4998I learned from my experience in the equine industry that different extenders can have an effect on the freezing success for different stallions, so I would think that probably applies to bucks (and maybe bulls too).

[@lett3rartist163]

The thumbnail is genious, she looks like either someone who’s unbelievably happy or someone who’s a mad scientist lol

[@Jaynes-Path]

When it comes to AI, I've seen horses and cows get inseminated so I don't think goats will be any different. The process is more complicated than I thought. Thanks for showing us all that you have to do.

[@AMMOswifey]

This is fascinating! Thank you for taking us along!

[@KITN._.8]

So happy this got posted! Officially have Covid for the first time yall are a comfort channel for me😂

[@udderlyfowlfarm]

Same, haha!!

[@CTribe-q6j]

I'm sorry! Covid sucks! 😥

[@bluebalenciaga2367]

Get well soon!

[@ShellyCurrier]

Make sure you get some really good vitamins for hair because a couple months after I had Covid I lost a bunch of hair!!! It was awful I mean I had a lot of hair and I lost like half!!!

[@bcgrote]

Lol same, recovering from ear infections post Covid, bleagh! Thank heavens for Wolf Creek goat videos!

[@CTribe-q6j]

I'm so excited to see some BABIES!!!!!!!! 🐐

[@udderlyfowlfarm]

The thumbnail got me straight away! 🤣 I can’t wait to watch this!

[@wordsmithwearables]

This was very interesting and informative! I am so glad Cricket was able to utilize the straw of Agape's Hard Pressed. ❤

[@osmia]

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[@BobbieJeanM]

That was definitely a roller coaster experience! Absolutely fascinating! I can’t wait to see the outcome of the two goats’ AI’s! 👏💕👍

[@lapetitemaison4219]

Fingers crossed that the 1st straw from Moon River took. Very educational video. Can't wait for new babies and see the genetic's that get thrown. So interesting.

[@gratituderanch9406]

Don’t think you could have written in this drama to make it more interesting! Hahahah so glad your tank seems fine!!!! Good luck you guys! Also- you did a great job showing the video. It was clear, interesting and also not overly graphic.

[@Chewberika]

Love the thumbnail with mad scientist vibes!

[@superkawaiisandwiches2741]

☺️ been waiting for this video! I always look forward to your videos! Thank you for providing quality content for our entertainment.

[@hollyfield6566]

Hello! You did a good job! My dad was a very early AI expert and I spent every Saturday from 1968 to 1978 with him watching him AI the best Holstein cows in the world. He worked with Carnation Genetics and he was a dairyman and consultant on proper cow nutrition too. I'm so anxious to see the babies River has. Hopefully she has at least three! I think you should pull another buck straw and check it, then rebred her.

[@Pixel__Hearts]

Not sure why I decided to watch this as I was eating!! Lol

[@anabelacerqueira2165]

You made a big mistake lol this is probably not the best thing to watch while eating… 😅😂

[@VivianBoese-1407]

Same 😂😂

[@Laurinda15]

I was also eating... ice cream. Haha.

[@angieduvall5128]

That was so cool and educational. KZbin let them keep making these videos. Fingers crossed River is bread and it would be cool if Cricket also has different daddy babies.

[@hannahwood5452]

So neat! Thanks for sharing and hoping the first straw had a few more successful swimmers for River

[@I.L.B.E]

I swear I remember all of them being little babies 😂😂

[@charlarp]

This was so interesting and informative, looking forward to the rest of the breeding season and seeing how it all plays out.

[@elliephants7047]

Woohooo!! I can't believe it's breeding time again already. Gosh I'm excited for Cricket - I noticed some wrinkles on her neck, I hope her skin is nice and dairy for that udder! She's such a pretty little doe. And Duchess looks sooooo good. I'm sorry that the first go of AI-ing was a little rough, but honestly yeah, that seems about the correct amount of first-time luck, haha! I do hope River takes, that maybe the first straw was good. And I'm super curious to see the dual-bred babies and if they come out like last year's kids! Woohoo, breeding time! Means kidding time ain't so far away :D

[@laceyclauson]

I’m so glad KZbin is allowing you to post these videos. They are so educational! I’m looking forward to following this journey. Your videos are amazing quality. Thank you for all your hard work putting these together.

[@bluebalenciaga2367]

Yaaaaay another upload!! 🥰

[@bcgrote]

A flashy Cricket baby with Pokey's color? Ooo yes!

[@Goodgodgetagripgirl]

Da'Nelle saying OS 😅 it's cervical os [osz] like the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[@IOSAGifts]

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[@RoseVang559]

Pokey's picture is so cute! LOL

[@betsiehammerhawk7799]

This is so much fun and interesting to watch! You can plan all you want, but things still turn out the way they do.... You handled it wonderfully. I am extremely curious to see how this turns out!

[@BoliVic96]

this was a rollercoaster for sure, thanks for sharing your journey with us!

[@MsSunnyDenise]

That was so fascinating!! I’m really glad KZbin allowed you to show us the whole process!!

[@carolmusso7767]

I learn so much from watching your videos. I’ve seen other videos where the owners don’t even know when the kids will be born. I love how invested you are and how much love you have for your goats. I can’t wait to experience this journey again with you! The cottage looks adorable, too! ❤️🐐

[@Raven06025]

This kidding season is going to be super fun, I like all the different bucks and to see how the AI works out. Very cool!

[@princesssofiyagm]

This is so fascinating. Thank you bringing us along. I’m excited to see the rest of the does.

[@gilliancook4072]

This was so interesting and I love the goats specking to each other ❤

[@elliotmullen6903]

Yay!!! So excited to see a vid!!

[@amypennington4000]

I was so stressed with you when moonshine/ moonrivers semen was a dud until you checked the other one, agape/agave, and learned that one was good. Keeping my fingers crossed and so looking forward to following your journey💜🐐

[@laurenpelling4079]

Can’t wait to watch this journey 😍

[@EdetaKudou]

That was crazy interesting video! ❤❤ Im so glad we got to witness it all! More of these please!

[@AirwrekaDoesntRead]

I would be very curious if the facility that collected Moon Station checked the motility and mobility of his sample before sending it out. We had to do that for any “samples” we collected when I worked at a horse breeding facility. Before freezing, cooling, or fresh using, we checked every single sample. If it was less than 50% mot/mob then we made a note and checked the temperature from the previous 20 days.

[@Weedemandreap]

They do check it first, it was 67% motility so it may have been when I transferred it:)

[@celestejohnson9227]

I’m fascinated by all of this. Can’t wait to see the new goat babies.

[@regalkammerlocher6162]

So do you get a refund from Orion's straws? Or do you just have to kind of eat that cost and hope the active ones made it?

[@Tobi0baby]

Hey everyone!

[@Behind_the_Bridle_]

I absolutely love your channel! ❤

[@elliephants7047]

Oh, and: I'm really glad you posted such an in-depth video, this really doesn't look THAT hard, outside of all of the equipment needed for it. It looks kinda fun, to somebody who likes to tinker and collect fun science stuff! Gotta say, it was a mistake to watch the...heck. What's the camera called, I've forgotten. The drain snake camera 🤣while eating a bowl of soup, but listen, that's my cross to bear.

[@alexachen996]

😂🤣 dying over the “drain snake camera” thanks for the laugh today.

[@Zeida-v8x]

I’m getting ready for school soon I’m kinda scared

[@HappyFlappyFarm]

Congratulations! This is so exciting!

[@saffysden]

this is exiting!!

[@goldfireplays3283]

Really hoping that this A.I thing would work! I won't be able to restraint myself from retaining so many kids with beautiful and amazing genetic next year if I were you!❣🤣

[@donnaricardo2109]

Fingers crossed for success

[@catherinecarreiro3955]

Wow what a first experience! Glad you look under microscope and discovered this.

[@allyofaliens7766]

I hope this AI works! The combos would look so amazing and hopefully bring pretty babies ❤️

[@annalee8550]

Thank you for taking us on this journey

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[@TheRockInnRobin]

What a way to learn 😅 thanks for sharing your journey!

[@carlapierle8623]

I'm glad KZbin let you share this experience with us!

[@goginaandalinabridges893]

Good luck on breeding the goats hopefully everything works out with that can't wait to see the new babies ❤.

[@zythe69akaru]

What an absolute rollercoaster!! I'm so curious what in the hecc happened with that first buck's straws!

[@TheCrazyNette]

Oh See...now you've got to name at least one of River's babies 🤞🤞Moon River. It's perfect. 🙂

[@Weedemandreap]

Omg yes!

[@lionsoulhomestead]

I can't wait to see the babies and DNA test results!! 🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@KatlynnGoldman]

Thanks for posting! So so fascinating. Hope y’all are doing well after the kiddos are both in college again ❤

[@dsant60]

This was a great video! Thank you for sharing it with us! Kind of a roller coaster!☺️

[@rodrigomengali8271]

Best video on AI ever! Thank you for sharing that knowledge!

[@erinnh3203]

Thanks for putting all of these twists and turns in one video :). Perfect amount of info!

[@ValC-vn5vl]

Love how you always roll with the punches and stay positive

[@noobtella1133]

xD Poke sounds always so sassy xDDDD

[@Steelhead23]

This is a very interesting and educational video. Thank you

[@marthakolb384]

You could have lite some candles for them 😂

[@lizregan1949]

The mattress sounds great. Oh wow, baby goats, yea! ❤🎉

[@giajensen1689]

This was so interesting! Thank you! Keeping my fingers crossed that the first straw worked with Cricket and Cricket gets kids from both bucks!❤😅

[@carriesnest]

I'm so curious to see how everything works out. I'm also excited for new babies!

[@Remnant123]

Sperm can die within a few minutes in the air. It truly depends on temperature/how you prepared the slide and stuff like that. In the air it simply dries out and dies because of it. I think if you were to add 9 gram kitchen salt (NaCL) into about a liter of water, you might be able to add that to the slide as well as the drop (probably a drop of it) you might thin out the amount of sperm you see but keep the sperm a bit more wet and it should perhaps survive a bit longer. (Note - I work in a Laboratory, this is what I remembered of Biology, work in Chemistry) That being said bad straws excist! Just a fun fact for if you have less time and need the slide to remain ok. Another option might be putting the slide in the refrigerator (as keeping samples cold for some cases can help) although I never tried thát before. It might work it might not work...the last part I mentioned about keeping cold would have to be figured out by trial and error😅

[@Weedemandreap]

I didn't use cover slides on samples because they hadn't arrived in time, so I'll def use them in the future. But regardless, there was still a big difference between the two bucks' samples. So I think the problem was with the semen and not an issue of them drying out on the slide. But yes, all these details you have to be sure to think of -- it's surprising how fragile it is! :)

[@Remnant123]

@@Weedemandreap If you need any help regarding Microscopy and how to keep samples/have any questions feel free to reach out to me! You would be surprised. In laboratories there is one temperature, between 68 and 77 F. Just to ensure that the temperature does not give us faulty results. Not to talk about humidity that also influences it. So two of the same tests, on the same day, with different temperatures/humidity can cause different results! That being said having multiple straws turning up badly will suggest something is going on. Laboratory work is quite difficult and like I said if you need tips or tricks. Just let me know ;) Did you know that instead of covers you can also just use another slide and put it on top? Oh and if you really zoom in a lot and the lens might touch the slide, use some oil! It protects the lens! ;) You can clean the lens afterwards by using a bit of a soft kind of wet wipe. To prevent air from being added between the cover slide and slide, you can actually use tweezers and very gently from left to right put it down. It should keep the air in the sample to a lower level! Like you pick it up with tweezers, lower the left side down and than carefully press the right side down as well. Otherwise you have to pick it up in a corner with you fingers (so around it not touching the glass itself, just the corner of the glass) and drop it real fast in place. The cover slides break very easily! So if you have trouble with them breaking, just use a second slide and drop it on the first in the same way. We done that at Microscopy often enough if the tiny, sticky cover slides were giving too much trouble.

[@Remnant123]

​@@Weedemandreap Also I absolutely love how you are not afraid to try it out and just learn yourself these skills! I hope you will be successful going forwards and am really impressed with what you have shown this far! ❤ Let me know if the tips help and like I said if you need more because I literally had to do like weeks on end of Microscopy (and in chemistry still did a version of it). Any questions I might know an answer to I am fine to help figure out! If you have just one drop of sperm instead of trying it with the cover slide immediately perhaps try a drop of water out of your swimming area in your backyard. It might have some fun little organism to look at and it can be practice to use slides. If you have no second drop and you have to redo the slide making it is a lot harder to have good results!

[@Weedemandreap]

@@Remnant123 Thank you!!!

[@Remnant123]

@@Weedemandreap No problem! I only can't remember how the oil and the soft wipes are called but that is simple asking Google ;) (I never really looked at the name because why would I haha) Never drop the oil on the lens by the way, always on the slide.. And if you microscope has two parts that you can turn to make it zoom. The smaller one is slower, the bigger one is faster. Never use the bigger one for the last bit of zooming. It can hit the glass under it and actually damage the lens! Ok sorry this was my Microscopy 101 :P

[@justrayena526]

Very educational! Hope the first straw was viable 🤞🏼🤞🏼 thank you for sharing!!

[@CarolinaWestphal-wh5zy]

Woww this was amazing to watch! the way you coped with the artificial insemination not going to plan was admirable! Wishing you a sucessful breeding period!

[@susancraig-conger9464]

Very interesting and educational!!! Thank you for posting. Thank you Utube for allowing.

[@MrMCLM-bt8ep]

Sending love from the Philippines!❤

[@kathyrivera2576]

Back in the early 80s, my friend and a mentor started using AI with a herd of dairy goats. It was challenging but they were successful. Togenbergs and Alpines.

[@goginaandalinabridges893]

Hopefully everything works out for the breeding

[@monkeyhillfarm8852]

Thank you so much for sharing this! So fascinating!

[@bethjones1116]

Have you ever considered getting Luna fixed so you don't have to worry about her heat

[@diannaclarke2758]

That was a good learning experience for you. Good luck. Will be interesting next year to see what you've got.

[@billieflowers1]

Thank you for posting. I've never seen that process, but I always wondered how it goes. Good job!

[@Rias96TTV]

Since its not your tank. Are they going to some how send out more Orion straws for use to use or will you have to buy more? What happens with all that?

[@Weedemandreap]

It is my tank, and the plan is to check the other straws then the company will work with me on what to do:)

[@Rias96TTV]

@Weedemandreap Thats true the other straws still need to be checked 😅 not me going off the one good one I swear hahaha. Hopefully the rest of em are all doing great 😊

[@lajwantishahani1225]

This entire video was so entertaining and I want to comment on everything! Lol... Just leaving it here. Maybe you should get Lancelot's scent bottled for the ladies 😂❤ Good luck with the girls.

[@GorgiChif]

The best channel on KZbin ❤ who agrees?!

[@Cowgirl40055]

I just watch one of y’all’s old videos and found out me and willow have the same birthday march 1!!!!!! Love you willow you my fav❤

[@kiwimaree807]

Wow that’s Lancelot he is soo big looks so different

[@kaleobraun1748]

This is so exciting!!!

[@carolinevlachos2067]

That was amazing. So interesting. Am very interested to see who's bred

[@saoirsevicteoiria2759]

Very cool! Cricket's a relaxed lady, not phased at all by puberty! edit: typo

[@LindaPoorman]

Lancelot has a gorgeous beard. I hope we get to see it in another year or so

[@coolestgrammyintown5598]

Thanks for the education!! Practice makes perfect!!! Your awesome!!

[@Zeida-v8x]

I’m going to school tomorrow

[@EcoJulie-vx6rx]

Can’t wait to see more with the plan!

[@shelleymoore7691]

I learned so much thank you for sharing!!

[@renee1424]

Plz do more of these videos

[@helgasutton]

What a cool thing to see!! I'm sorry the sperm was no good from the first buck, but here's to hoping the few swimmers did get through and River get preggers 🤞🏼

[@kimberleyfriesenhahn2515]

I thought it was very educational. I hope KZbin continues to allow you to post these sorts of videos. We did lap AI last year so I know how stressful it is to work with the straws and hurry to put the canister back into the tank. I was stressed for you during the process.😅 Best of luck to you with your two AI breedings.

[@becsutherland4506]

I’m glad that KZbin allowed this video. Artificial insemination for goats is fascinating.

[@ginamontoya-vanmilt37]

Good luck. I'll be waiting here to see what happens. 😮😊

[@momboss1442]

Thank you for sharing this! Happy to learn about AI I wanna do some maybe next year so wanted to learn as much as possible. If you ever wanna post more of how you came about some breeders for the straws. I see some saying but doesn’t say much else on their sites like where and how to purchase. And the tanks and accessories etc. that would be some more good videos! 😊

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Sure I can cover that!

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