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Post by Angus in NCMO® on Feb 23, 2012 20:57:45 GMT -5
Here's a few of this year's A.I.'d calves out of the first calf heifers. Actual due date (by the charts) would have been yesterday 2/22/11. Clean-up bull wasn't turned out for 2 weeks after A.I. and it looks like there will be 2 more A.I. sired calves. Just over 68% conception to A.I. bulls this year. Synchronized and heat detected. Best weather during February calving EVER. Pleasant experience. Attachments:
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Post by Dave-ECIA on Feb 24, 2012 14:39:39 GMT -5
What sync protocol did you use??
Just a shade under 70% first service rate is pretty frickin good.
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Post by Angus in NCMO® on Feb 24, 2012 20:22:52 GMT -5
14 day cidr, lute shot on day 30, breed on heat detections and then mass breed what's left at  hours w/ a GnRH shot (can't remember what last year's cut-off time was for mass breeding) IIRC there was less than 5 that I didn't catch detecting heats. I used Estrus Alert patches for a heat detection aide. Heifers were in excellent shape. Highest conception rate I've ever had. Have heard of others accomplishing this ... but hadn't happened here before. Very happy with the results. A seminar I attended late last summer suggested the need to pay more attention to detail on semen handling -- which by sheer luck, I started paying a little more attention to that myself last spring --- coincidence, maybe, maybe not ... but it sure can't hurt. |
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Post by acfarmer on Mar 10, 2012 12:02:25 GMT -5
From the title of this thread I was expecting a different kind of Picture. Im glad it wasnt what I was expecting  LOL |
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Post by Bristol Hillbilly on Mar 10, 2012 18:41:02 GMT -5
But you had to look anyway didn't ya A.C.?
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Post by acfarmer on Mar 10, 2012 20:48:31 GMT -5
But you had to look anyway didn't ya A.C.? Yeah, I did, but so did you. LOL |
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Post by Bristol Hillbilly on Mar 12, 2012 5:32:43 GMT -5
I closed one eye when I looked just in case
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Post by acfarmer on Mar 12, 2012 7:17:36 GMT -5
lmfao. ;D
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hours w/ a GnRH shot (can't remember what last year's cut-off time was for mass breeding) IIRC there was less than 5 that I didn't catch detecting heats. I used Estrus Alert patches for a heat detection aide. 
LOL
