Recent content by Adam Freeman

I saw several with signs. We had one with a huge glob of mucus going from her tail to the ground when he started working on her. What all signs do you look for.

Ken i am planning on doing it that way. Work my way into it slowly.

It wasnt to bad out 70-80 degrees

This year was our first so had someone do it but watched cloesly and helped out. Planning to take a class and try to do it myself next year.

Just did our first AI this morning. Ran 18 head through. All 3 to 6 yo cows on a 7 and 7 protocol. Used the following bulls. CONSENSUS 237AN2199 EMBLEM 29AN2247 POLARIS 29AN2252 TRUE NORTH 29AN2144 Now to wait.and see how well they took to it.

We have 20 cow/ calf pairs. All our cows are very good producers and raise great calves. They rang from three 2yo hefiers to mostly 4 and 5 yo. We normally calve in feb/ mar and then sell the following February. We only retain the top three hefiers each year and cull any cows that do not...

What are your thoughts on early weaning. With our weather and the lack of rain the past 3 years was contemplating early weaning of the calves this year. Grass is getting pretty thin and not alot coming in. My early spring coolweather grass pasture is really short so was thinking of moving the...

Thanks for the replies didnt even know about the Grham school. Looked into it and making plans.

Looking for suggestions on the best AI school/ classes in or around Kansas. I am located in north central Kansas and have already reached out to the ones nearest me just waiting to hear back. Are there any other good ones in surrounding states I can look into?

We had a neat experience with one of our cows and her daughter. Pulled into feed and saw 2 cows with tails up and moving away from the herd so went to check them out. Once they setteled down about 50 yards apart we took a seat and waited. First time hefier had a nice 70 pound bull calf about 30...

Are you finding it harder to get Rainfall semen now? I was able to get 50 straws from our rep.

This is our first year doing AI but we are using Tehama Tahoe and SAV Rainfall. Also have a few straws of HPCA Veracious in the tank as well.

They had a few used tanks but ended up buying a brand new xc-20 from them for 590.00 and they filled it up with LN. Also found a local rep to buy some semen from and have straws purchased and in the tank now. Time to wait for may to get here and start our first round of ai. Thanks for all the help.