A.I. Success

[Alan]

I read a post a few days ago, don't remember who's the author, but they stated the had bought 5 straws of a bull and used 3. Of the 3 they used they got 3 calves, I thought that was a great (unusual percentage), not saying it didn't happen just hoping that was the odds or close to it.

So my question is; if you have someone who is pretty good at A.I. what kind of conception rate can you expect?

Thanks,
Alan

 

[lakading]

Being good at A.I. is the easy part. Being good at heat detection and timing the insemination is the what gets you the high conception rates.

 

[El_Putzo]

Talk to Dun, I hear he is pretty good at AI and heat detection. ;-)

 

[tuck]

I have heard about 60% with sync , and higher with just watching them for heat.

 

[Aero]

dun (who i believe more than anyone on this board) will boast a 90%+ rate.

good AI techs will be in the 60-70% range.

it also matters how many you are talking about. using 3 samples (3 cows) will not be representative and could have just as like been 3, 2, 1 or 0 bred. either way, the person was very lucky and obviously knew what they were doing (since the cows got bred).

 

[la4angus]

dun (who i believe more than anyone on this board) will boast a 90%+ rate.

Heck yeah. Dun is so good that he told us a year or so ago that peoople hire him to come in and clean up after the clean up bulls. And this is the truth

 

[dj]

7 out of 9 is my best so far, the average is more like 50%

 

[Bez!]

Best year -90% on first go around.

Worst year - around 55% on first go around.

We generally average about 65 - 70% tops on first go.

Bez!

 

[DD RANCH]

Our ai heifers are due 2/13 we had our first today we sycronized and heat checked we did 30 heifers last spring the first day there were 19 in standing heat the way it looks we had a good catch but I will know more in 2 weeks.

The cows we ai'ed are due 3/15 so who knows they didnt cycle as hot as the heifers and we time bred those.