ai conundrum

[pdfangus]

my condrum is different.

I have been ai breeding since 1975.
Long ago lost count of the number of cows but it is thousands.
have bred at a few mass breedings.

now i am not breeding enough.

we had fifty or sixty and i could jump in every fall and go right back to it.

Last year I had three services.

Yesterday I had four and boy....... have I lost my touch.

talked to my son this morning and told him that I either had to breed more cows or quit all together as yesterday was that bad. I finally got all four passed but it was like the first day again.

your question....
I would not have bred the cow if I did not see her stand

My problem is that more then 2 a day and can can hardly move my fingers.

what kind of arthritis do you have?

I have rheumatoid but I do not think that was a factor.
My methrotrexate and enbrel have me relatively pain free right now if I don't do a lot of high impact stuff. My wrist is my primary pain site but they are doing good for the last few months.
I had no lingering effects. I have lost strength in my hands which was part fo the problem and when a cow squeezed she could stop me. I think the biggest factor by far though was the lack of practice.

 

[dun]

what kind of arthritis do you have?

Just regular old old and hands and joints won;t bend kind. When it's cold it's worse and when I stick a hand in a hot cow the pain is really somehting to behold. Just the price of working with old used parts.
I keep trying to keep in mind my sig line

 

[angus9259]

open

 

[cow pollinater]

...hate to be the guy that "told you so"... but ... you know... :roll:
Sorry it worked out that way.
Experiance has taught me to breed everything that makes me look twice if they are in the 20-25 days since last heat range. Under ideal circumstances, you'll be right half the time with a good chance of her retaining pregnancy if you're wrong. Under less than ideal circumstances there is more like a one in three or four chance that she's pregnant and still a good chance of her retaining the calf if she is. Add in the cost of days open plus the drugs to get her back in heat faster and that expensive straw of semen looks like a pretty good investment.

 

[novaman]

Add in the cost of days open plus the drugs to get her back in heat faster and that expensive straw of semen looks like a pretty good investment.

Give her a shot of prostaglandin 7-10 days after she was last in heat. The prostaglandin costs about $2.50 and you will have a cow open for a couple weeks longer than she should have been. I don't see that as being a huge financial loss. Probably lost less money than if you had stuck a straw in her and found her to be bred.

 

[angus9259]

With that shot of pg, when would she ovulate again? At this point, she's scheduled for 12/28 on a normal cycle.

 

[dun]

With that shot of pg, when would she ovulate again? At this point, she's scheduled for 12/28 on a normal cycle.

3-4 days following the