Winter made a brief appearance with another famous Hereford Zone 'Ice Event.' This New York/Connecticut transplant still can't quite get over the Maryland version of 'Snow!' With plans to take a break from on-farm breeding this spring and enjoy the coming April foals, plans are being finalized to breed three top quality mares to Katje off-site. This will dwindle down the old fellow's 'frozen DNA' so it was an excellent time to purchase a Nitrogen storage tank and bring the rest home. This also allowed us to make some exciting plans for the future, including securing a dose of Lingh semen for use on one of the fillies when they mature. Breeding may literally be put 'on ice' here for 2012 but with temps in the 50's on the forecast for the entire last week of January, February seems more likely to bring crocuses than snow, and I am betting that we will blink and it will be time to deliver those April babies.
