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<blockquote data-quote="bcarty" data-source="post: 1130834" data-attributes="member: 17617"><p>I currently AI all my heifers so AI is not the issue. I actually built my own AI barn from a junk 2 horse bumper trailer. Not as cool as some of the big named ones like Larges AI Barn but functional for me. Some of my cows I wouldn't want to AI just because I know they are going to have a calf that I'm not interested in keeping in my herd. I have a large number of cows that I will never keep a replacement heifer from for one reason or another. I have toyed with the idea of AI'ing a select group of cows to get the best genetics but even that way Im looking at a at best 70% conception rate (fixed timed AI) and then half that as heifers. Just doesn't seem to number out in the end when you breed say 50 cows you might get 15 heifers to chose from and that just isn't the kind of numbers I want. I would rather buy a bull and breed 50 cows at 100% conception and have 25 heifers to look at. or 100 cows and have 50 heifers to choose from. </p><p></p><p>As for the cows I wont keep replacements from cuz I know someone will ask - I have a group of cows that are all gentle good producing cows, but their calves are crazy. Bull doesn't matter all the calves are wired tight as a fiddle from birth to the time they get on the trailer. Have no clue why. I have never had trouble with the cows at all just their calves. Had one heifer calf out of one of these cows last year tore the floor out of my trailer. Didn't know that was possible. The cows are all home raised out of a bull that I raised and really liked. I tried keeping a few of the first ones and that was a mistake. Im not going to use money to AI these cows just to produce feeder calves. The only reason they are not with the terminal herd is limited space on that farm. I also have a couple token colored cows that I just cant seem to get rid of. They aren't crazy colored or anything and I will keep a heifer from these cows if its born solid black but no sense AIing them just to get a colored calf. These cows are the result of my simm bull carrying the spotter gene.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bcarty, post: 1130834, member: 17617"] I currently AI all my heifers so AI is not the issue. I actually built my own AI barn from a junk 2 horse bumper trailer. Not as cool as some of the big named ones like Larges AI Barn but functional for me. Some of my cows I wouldn't want to AI just because I know they are going to have a calf that I'm not interested in keeping in my herd. I have a large number of cows that I will never keep a replacement heifer from for one reason or another. I have toyed with the idea of AI'ing a select group of cows to get the best genetics but even that way Im looking at a at best 70% conception rate (fixed timed AI) and then half that as heifers. Just doesn't seem to number out in the end when you breed say 50 cows you might get 15 heifers to chose from and that just isn't the kind of numbers I want. I would rather buy a bull and breed 50 cows at 100% conception and have 25 heifers to look at. or 100 cows and have 50 heifers to choose from. As for the cows I wont keep replacements from cuz I know someone will ask - I have a group of cows that are all gentle good producing cows, but their calves are crazy. Bull doesn't matter all the calves are wired tight as a fiddle from birth to the time they get on the trailer. Have no clue why. I have never had trouble with the cows at all just their calves. Had one heifer calf out of one of these cows last year tore the floor out of my trailer. Didn't know that was possible. The cows are all home raised out of a bull that I raised and really liked. I tried keeping a few of the first ones and that was a mistake. Im not going to use money to AI these cows just to produce feeder calves. The only reason they are not with the terminal herd is limited space on that farm. I also have a couple token colored cows that I just cant seem to get rid of. They aren't crazy colored or anything and I will keep a heifer from these cows if its born solid black but no sense AIing them just to get a colored calf. These cows are the result of my simm bull carrying the spotter gene. [/QUOTE]
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