Knocked Up

In the good-ole days, bulls had more fun.

Today’s hi-tech world, though, means that they just get cleanup duties.

I had been around for some of the prep work that goes into making sure the cows are in heat, but I had never seen the actual artificial insemination process.

Basically, the semen is ordered and arrives on dry ice. Small tubes of semen are thawed immediately before use and placed in a larger tube, which is used for the injection part. (What? You wanted the technical explanation? Well, that’s it, sort of.)

It all looks something like this:

 

And starting next January, we’ll have these:

Bada bing, bada boom.