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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1842575" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Being a Veterinarian I guess I have a leg up with it however I never did much preg testing in cattle during my career, probably had more experience with horses. I didn't do any AI work either. I've never felt I was good at knowing what was happening in there and probably have been too gentle. I always remember at Uni a fellow in our prac group put his finger through a horses rectum and of course it died so that put the wind up me a bit. I started inseminating my cows about 16 years ago and I used to miss quite a few but each year I have improved, last year I think was my best year out of 50 inseminations I only missed one of them and strangely when I checked them I am pretty sure she has conceived to the AI so I might be better than I thought. I am rising 73 now so I can't expect to continue improving though with experience you tend to develop techniques to overcome the weakness you get in your hands with age especially with some of the big old cervixes. Some years they seem easier to do than others and I think this is related to the season and the quality of feed they are on, bad years it can be dry and rough in there, good years too squirty and gassy and sucking gas into the vagina when mounting other cows.</p><p>On preg testing I try to catch them at around 4 months and it helps to differentiate between me and the bull plus I watch them closely when they are due back in so I have a pretty good idea if I got them or not. I only give them one round of AI now and then it is up to the bull. My goal is to have them calving within a month. I synchronise them in batches of 10 about 2-3 days apart as I fatigue easy but things are busy for a couple of weeks there. One of the big problems with becoming proficient is that you are only doing it for a short period once a year.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1842575, member: 16453"] Being a Veterinarian I guess I have a leg up with it however I never did much preg testing in cattle during my career, probably had more experience with horses. I didn't do any AI work either. I've never felt I was good at knowing what was happening in there and probably have been too gentle. I always remember at Uni a fellow in our prac group put his finger through a horses rectum and of course it died so that put the wind up me a bit. I started inseminating my cows about 16 years ago and I used to miss quite a few but each year I have improved, last year I think was my best year out of 50 inseminations I only missed one of them and strangely when I checked them I am pretty sure she has conceived to the AI so I might be better than I thought. I am rising 73 now so I can't expect to continue improving though with experience you tend to develop techniques to overcome the weakness you get in your hands with age especially with some of the big old cervixes. Some years they seem easier to do than others and I think this is related to the season and the quality of feed they are on, bad years it can be dry and rough in there, good years too squirty and gassy and sucking gas into the vagina when mounting other cows. On preg testing I try to catch them at around 4 months and it helps to differentiate between me and the bull plus I watch them closely when they are due back in so I have a pretty good idea if I got them or not. I only give them one round of AI now and then it is up to the bull. My goal is to have them calving within a month. I synchronise them in batches of 10 about 2-3 days apart as I fatigue easy but things are busy for a couple of weeks there. One of the big problems with becoming proficient is that you are only doing it for a short period once a year. Ken [/QUOTE]
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