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It sounds to me like the water temp was too high. I’ve bred a lot of cows and had decent conception by thawing semen in the gun under my arm pit or in the cow. Would do that in hot weather, but it does OK in cold weather. I wonder if you have 1/4 cc straws. They are far more temperature...

P.S.- if they are not cycling then prostamate won’t make them cycle.

If they are already cycling, you would expect about 60% to cycle off of one shot of prostamate. If they don’t show heat with a single shot of prostamate (or Lutalyse, estrumate) then just luck of the draw you caught them in the wrong part of their cycle (no CL) for it to work. If you gave a...

In my opinion, angus docility EPDs track pretty close to actual docility. However, it doesn’t take a whole lot for someone who doesn’t know how to handle cattle to ruin a docile animal. We’ve been breeding for docility for 10-15 years now and have culled several for being too docile. We...

The reasoning behind the 7&7 protocol is to get those “younger” follicles to ovulate as opposed to “older” senescent follicles

Just need to remember that maximum life span of semen in the cow is 24 hours and the ovulated ovum is about 18 hours, although beyond 12 hours, fertility of both declines rapidly. Ovulation occurs about 10-12 hours after end of standing heat. We try AM / PM on our cows, but keep in mind above...

Good cow line, not familiar with the top side. Excellent set of EPD’s

Remember to angle the CIDR gun upward like you would with an AI pipette to avoid the urethra. That also helps guide it over the pelvic muscles

We’ve got 2 calves coming this fall out of 2 full sib Insight daughters. Saw one calf at a show last summer I liked and a friend has a few calves and likes them.

We looked at both those bulls and went with Power Chip. Docility EPD has us a little concerned, but we used him on gentle 2nd calf heifers. He is more the phenotype we are looking for in our herd.

I think I still have an AI certificate for Sitz Alliance 6595

I also spoke with Jordan about using 7&7 on virgin heifers. His group didn’t have any data so he wouldn’t recommend. I tried it and I wouldn’t recommend either. We had 86% adult cows, 40% first calf heifers and 29% virgin heifer preg rate at ultrasound. All were bred on observed heats...

Bulls from that era were all 7 and above frame scores. I vaguely remember some of the Simmental names. Good, big cattle, but calving ease wasn’t in vogue yet. Same with the Brangus. Fairfield Hi Guy was 6’ tall and 6” wide. Big Elban and Cracker Jack were bigger framed, but also had some...

We used 7&7 this fall. Bred only on observed heats and were done breeding cows and yearling heifers at 60 hours. Three of the 4 we didn’t breed were calved <30 days and didn’t cycle. We ultrasounded yesterday and had conception rate 87.5% in one pen, 75% in another pen and 33% in last pen...