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I redid our smaller trailer a few years ago, both dealing with rust issues and replacing the factory floor in it. I used a do-it-yerself bedliner kit for the interior of the trailer and the exterior surfaces that were getting rock-chip from the truck. I used a rust-prep on the rust-pocked...

We've used several different methods....The foot-tape is nice and as someone else stated, I think it gives you a good indication. Supposedly, when you take into account that most hanging scales don't maintain their accuracy after getting thrown around through a calving season, and a lot of...

very true, used some shorthorn in glass ampules last year, got 80 percent settled.

Your choice of embryologist plays a large part in this. You need a good embryologist that will match embryos to your recips (as far as the age/grade of the embryo with the quality, stage of the recip's cycle). Ordinarily, 50% +/-5-10% is a ballpark range, with the lower end with frozen and...

The Canadian and Mexican CIDRs that were being used in the US before they had FDA approval had twice the dosage of progesterone in them as compared to the ones currently marketed in the U.S., which was why we usually used them twice in cows, and could use them for a third time in heifers. I...