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Ky hills

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I really wish he’d a been a heifer.
Horn is dog gentle and in my opinion has a real good udder.
Calf is 6 months old steer, born August 13.
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Unfortunately, it's like that most of the time. Had one have a dead heifer for her first, then all bulls and finally two heifers for her last two calvings. Also had one, which only had bulls...
 
I had that happen with my best cow. She has had a string of bulls lately. I decided if she is so good to me then i’m using her bull calf to breed and hopefully help stamp her on the herd. I just put him in with them the other day.
 
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We weaned the 5 fall calves this morning after feeding. Easiest separating job we’ve had. I reckon just having a few head has its advantages.
While we didn’t get a daughter of Horn this year, we did get a granddaughter. We only had 2 heifer calves in the fall and the other heifer calf was sold along with a few other fall calves as cow/calf pairs,
So today we weaned 1 heifer and 4 steer calves.
The black mottled face cow on the left side of the trough is Horns first calf and only daughter to date. The calf on the same side but the next trough is Horns granddaughter that was weaned.
She’s also the one standing at a strange angle at the roll of hay after the calves were sorted away from the cows.
The steer with the reddish tinged hair has always been like that. He has some Simmental and Brahman way back, and the line of cows he comes from would sometimes have a chocolate colored calf when bred to a Hereford. All of these calves are by an Angus bull.
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Ky hills said:
Maybe so. Her first calf was a heifer, and been a string of bulls (steers) ever since.
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coachg said:
We have one like that ! 1 heifer and 5-6 bulls/ steers . Fingers crossed for this year
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lithuanian farmer said:
Unfortunately, it's like that most of the time. Had one have a dead heifer for her first, then all bulls and finally two heifers for her last two calvings. Also had one, which only had bulls...
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It's funny to me that I keep getting so much flack when I tell people some simple ways to influence the genders of calves. It's all about setting up the PH of the mucosal environment during breeding season. Just providing mineral and high protein feed for two months prior to conception to breeding animals (both bulls and cows) for male calves, and providing sweet, carbohydrate rich feed for heifers. You won't get 100%, but the differences will be 67% for heifers and 72% for males... instead of a 50/50 chance.
If you look around at families you know, you'll see that the numbers 50/50 don't jibe with the actual ratios. There are enough families with all girls or all boys that reason would dictate there must be something affecting their results.
And if you are using AI you can inseminate into the ovulating horn of the uterus, or into the opposite horn to influence an outcome. In the ovulating horn for males and in the opposite for females.
What you're doing is using the natural abilities of female sperm to be slower but have more endurance, and male to have more speed. And the same thing with influencing the PH levels in the mucous membranes.
 
mwj said:
Sell your simple service and become wealthy. Why have you been slacking off all this time.🤔
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I have sold my services. But an internet forum full of invested people isn't a place conducive to deep thought or trying simple things to arrive at better outcomes. It's more of a herd mentality where if everyone doesn't agree immediately en masse, then they can't conceive of doing anything differently. It's kind of interesting. Personally, I see it as great entertainment. I like figuring out who can think and who has a difficult time.
 
Those closed minds go for sexed semen. Maybe it is repeatable results are what those small minded forum dwellers are looking for.
 
mwj said:
Those closed minds go for sexed semen. Maybe it is repeatable results are what those small minded forum dwellers are looking for.
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There's nothing wrong with sexed semen. That's another tool in the tool box. Does everyone AI? And it they don't have sexed semen... what could they do to influence gender?

What I've suggested has repeatable results. But you haven't done anything to try it, so you haven't seen any results, have you? It's pretty difficult to do what I suggest. It may be beyond your capability. /S

What do YOU do?
 
Ky hills said:
While I’d sometimes like to get certain sex of calves from certain cows or matings, reality is I’m just happy with a live healthy calf.
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It's one of those things in life. You'd like to have heifers from your favorites but steers make more money. I needed heifers for my business, but I never complained about a live calf.
 
Travlr said:
It's funny to me that I keep getting so much flack when I tell people some simple ways to influence the genders of calves. It's all about setting up the PH of the mucosal environment during breeding season. Just providing mineral and high protein feed for two months prior to conception to breeding animals (both bulls and cows) for male calves, and providing sweet, carbohydrate rich feed for heifers. You won't get 100%, but the differences will be 67% for heifers and 72% for males... instead of a 50/50 chance.
If you look around at families you know, you'll see that the numbers 50/50 don't jibe with the actual ratios. There are enough families with all girls or all boys that reason would dictate there must be something affecting their results.
And if you are using AI you can inseminate into the ovulating horn of the uterus, or into the opposite horn to influence an outcome. In the ovulating horn for males and in the opposite for females.
What you're doing is using the natural abilities of female sperm to be slower but have more endurance, and male to have more speed. And the same thing with influencing the PH levels in the mucous membranes.
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Since people do not use AI we are now down to feed and mineral which most producers use anyway. Were you the one last week talking about minerals are a waste of money and were a sales gimic?:p
 
mwj said:
Since people do not use AI we are now down to feed and mineral which most producers use anyway. Were you the one last week talking about minerals are a waste of money and were a sales gimic?:p
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You seem to have a vast capacity for intentional misunderstanding.

But you enjoy it, so let's go...

Let's start with the question you've ignored.

You haven't done anything to try it, so you haven't seen any results, have you? It's pretty difficult to do what I suggest. So what do YOU do?
 
Ky hills said:
We weaned the 5 fall calves this morning after feeding. Easiest separating job we’ve had. I reckon just having a few head has its advantages.
While we didn’t get a daughter of Horn this year, we did get a granddaughter. We only had 2 heifer calves in the fall and the other heifer calf was sold along with a few other fall calves as cow/calf pairs,
So today we weaned 1 heifer and 4 steer calves.
The black mottled face cow on the left side of the trough is Horns first calf and only daughter to date. The calf on the same side but the next trough is Horns granddaughter that was weaned.
She’s also the one standing at a strange angle at the roll of hay after the calves were sorted away from the cows.
The steer with the reddish tinged hair has always been like that. He has some Simmental and Brahman way back, and the line of cows he comes from would sometimes have a chocolate colored calf when bred to a Hereford. All of these calves are by an Angus bull.
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Good looking animals
 

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