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Here are a few pics of one of our steers. The first generation of crosses do not perform nearly as well as straight beef crosses. You HAVE to feed them to keep up body condition and milk production. Yes they do raise a big calf, but here you have to sell them kinda early before the dairy...

I've been AI'ing for a few years, and I still get a retired dairyman to come help me. He's been doing it more than 50 years. Some cows are just tougher than others. I can go back through notes and see that some cows are just tough every year. We work in two separate chutes, but sometimes I...

Hook, How many are you setting up for 1/1/13?

We have had 5 sets of twins in the last 2 months. Just had the last set yesterday. All out of the same bull. And I know there are 2 others that haven't calved yet that the vet said were twins when palpating. We lost one set completely that calved prematurely, and another pair we lost on of...

We are setting up 45 cows tomorrow afternoon with CIDRs. This will be our first time using CIDRs for the Select Sync method. And 45 will be the most I've ever done at one time by myself. Looks like next Friday will be busy. But I still share your thoughts on the excitement of improving your...

Does anyone here reuse the liquid? We've branded 2 groups using dry ice and Acetone. I've just always poured the fluid out when we were done. It would save some money to strain it and put it back in the jugs for next time.

Can anyone link pictures of both good and bad?

Check w/ Clemson University. That's where I took mine several years ago. ABS hosted it at the Martin & Martin barn.