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I thought I had posted when the semen actually arrived, but I guess I must have forgotten to hit "Post Reply". I do that with emails too. I think I have responded, only to later find it in drafts. :rolleyes: I picked the semen up on Monday, and everything went smoothly. The tank showed vapor...

Charley Cap Semen is stored in a special tank called a semen tank. A tank like the one I have (MVE 20) will cost between $700 and $1,000 and must be topped off with nitrogen every 3 to 4 months. You will likely pay $50 to $75 for each refill. It is not practical to own your own tank for just...

The guy that does my breeding is in his mid eighties and he doesn't order much semen any more. He works out of owners tanks, but has a few show bulls and older bulls in his own tank. I did not want to inconvenience him, and thought I could handle it. He did offer to transport the semen...

I was able to reach my old ABS rep. He tells me those thanks are usually good for close to two weeks. What a relief!

Thanks Jan Too late for sending it to the guy that fills my tank. He is 100 miles away, but he comes by every three months so it may have been an option. There are no ABS reps in Oregon anymore. They let the last of them go this summer. In the past I ordered semen through them, but when I...

How many days is a semen shipper tank good? I ordered a bunch of semen for myself and three others and I asked that they mail it on a Monday. I was ordering from ABS in Wisconsin and I knew it would be 5 days or so by truck or rail and I did not want the tank setting over the weekend during a...

The Thumper bull belonged to my friend and neighbor. He was out with a large group of commercial cows for a number of years. I remember the calves as thick and attractive. He was not a heifer bull. Calves were good size. I don't know how many daughters he kept or how they did. I will have...

Although it doesn't happen often, labs do make mistakes. Hopefully that is what happened to you and parentage will be confirmed as the AI sire. The gestation would seem to indicate she most likely was the result of AI, unless of course there was another bull present when she was turned out...

The sellers sounds like an outfit I would avoid like the plaque in the future. If you bought a heifer from me at the commercial market price, it would not be DNA'd and registered, but I assure you all breeding age cows and bulls here are DNA'd as free of identified defects or they have been...

Okay, that makes sense. Rainfall's son, SAV Downpour. I'm a poor typer. I have to look at my fingers the whole time, and then I look up and read everything to check for mistakes and auto-correct stuff. Even then I make mistakes. 😳

Rainfall’s don Fownpour has??? I'm not sure what you were trying to say there. Did Rainfall and his son both die? From which son did you buy semen? This is what I mean about too many young high priced bulls being gone before they are even proven bulls. No wonder insurance is so high. It is...

"Untimely death" leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Personally I would be real hesitant to buy semen on a bull that wasn't able to survive to 3 years old, even if straws were sold at a bargain price. What happened? Was he injured and might that be a structural concern? Quit producing semen...

I was looking recently looking through a group of sale catalogs from various well known and some lesser known seed-stock producers. I wanted to see what bulls they had selected to produce the offerings in those catalogs. As usual most had used many of the same list of bulls. You might expect...

I'm willing to pay you $100,000 for a good Angus bull under just one condition. You have to buy 4 $26,000 heifers from me. (I suspect something similar to this happens on a regular basis and now everyone has bragging rights.)

When I am buying, good Angus heifers will bring $2500 plus. When I am selling, the same or even better quality registered heifer with a similar pedigree and good EPDs might bring $1,000 or less. :( The big difference is marketing. If you are a good salesperson and have the right contacts, you...

I consider myself commercial, but over the years my herd has evolved to where all of my cows are now registered Angus. I have spent the last almost 30 years putting together what I consider to be a really good herd of cattle. They work well in this environment and I'd be hard pressed to find...

Good for you. In my opinion, you are doing the right thing. It seems to me like there should be demand for bulls from a clean herd. If I was you, I would not cull the carriers however. You can breed them to another breed for hybrid vigor and sell the calves for beef. Or you can breed them to...

I am surprised that the Charolais breed makes it that difficult to identify a carrier. It appears they care little for the commercial producer. I must give credit to American Angus when it comes to serious defects. AAA does not allow the registration of bulls that have a known carrier of a...

Thank you all for you comments and suggestions. Yesterday was a busy day. We put CIDR's in the rest of the AI cows and got everyone sorted back to the proper pastures to wait the arrival of bulls. We went ahead and bred that cow at a little after 7PM. My technician brought his wife along...

We were getting ready to synchronize a group of cows, a few of which I hoped to breed with sexed semen. When we went to gather and sort yesterday about 11AM, I saw one of them was coming in heat. By noon she was standing. I called my AI technician and we bred her early this morning with sexed...