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AI by myself or buy a bull???
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<blockquote data-quote="1848" data-source="post: 342549" data-attributes="member: 1303"><p>The one thing no one mentioned here is the potential for you to have calves coming all over the calendar with AI. If you don't clean up the AI'ing with a bull then you will set back animals and potentially have them calving in all different times of the year and in different climates. Furthermore, in order to compare cows and calves you need to have them all calving around the same time, whether it be spring or fall, so you will know how they do given the same environmental/forage conditions. Having the calves in one given season will also be easier on you to manage, and it will be easier on the animals depending on the breeding and calving season chosen. </p><p></p><p>You can delay production time of a female by trying multiple times to get her to take AI, when you could have her 2 months bred (if the AI didn't take). You can also send a good female packing....assuming you couldn't get her bred AI, where as a clean up bull, after the first AI, would finish the job and keep the cow in production, and keep you from culling a non-cull cause you couldn't get her to breed AI due to bad technique, bad semen, infection..etc, etc,.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1848, post: 342549, member: 1303"] The one thing no one mentioned here is the potential for you to have calves coming all over the calendar with AI. If you don't clean up the AI'ing with a bull then you will set back animals and potentially have them calving in all different times of the year and in different climates. Furthermore, in order to compare cows and calves you need to have them all calving around the same time, whether it be spring or fall, so you will know how they do given the same environmental/forage conditions. Having the calves in one given season will also be easier on you to manage, and it will be easier on the animals depending on the breeding and calving season chosen. You can delay production time of a female by trying multiple times to get her to take AI, when you could have her 2 months bred (if the AI didn't take). You can also send a good female packing....assuming you couldn't get her bred AI, where as a clean up bull, after the first AI, would finish the job and keep the cow in production, and keep you from culling a non-cull cause you couldn't get her to breed AI due to bad technique, bad semen, infection..etc, etc,. [/QUOTE]
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