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<blockquote data-quote="Angus In Texas" data-source="post: 443241" data-attributes="member: 5611"><p>You can always sync them up but not for timed AI and still check for heats and breed off of heats. The economic advantage to syncronization is that you give every cow in the herd a chance at conceiving on the first day of your breeding season which means theoretically you are giving them up to an extra 21 days to conceive. </p><p></p><p>If you breed on natural heats a cow might not come into heat until day 17 or 18 of your breeding season where as if you sync them she is coming back in a second time at day 21 of the breeding season. Syncronization tightens up your calving season giving you a more uniform set of calves at market time as well as giving cows more opportunities to conceive a calf which should mean a lower cull for open rate. Now economically you have to do the calculations for yourself as I don't know how many head you have, how you market your cattle, and how strict you are on calving seasons and culling open cows.</p><p></p><p>If you market through outlets like superior or retained ownership where uniformity within the group drives premiums it might be better to sync or for seedstock operators they might look at when their production sale is or consignemt sale as well as when their commercial customers will be needing service age bulls to turn out to pasture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angus In Texas, post: 443241, member: 5611"] You can always sync them up but not for timed AI and still check for heats and breed off of heats. The economic advantage to syncronization is that you give every cow in the herd a chance at conceiving on the first day of your breeding season which means theoretically you are giving them up to an extra 21 days to conceive. If you breed on natural heats a cow might not come into heat until day 17 or 18 of your breeding season where as if you sync them she is coming back in a second time at day 21 of the breeding season. Syncronization tightens up your calving season giving you a more uniform set of calves at market time as well as giving cows more opportunities to conceive a calf which should mean a lower cull for open rate. Now economically you have to do the calculations for yourself as I don't know how many head you have, how you market your cattle, and how strict you are on calving seasons and culling open cows. If you market through outlets like superior or retained ownership where uniformity within the group drives premiums it might be better to sync or for seedstock operators they might look at when their production sale is or consignemt sale as well as when their commercial customers will be needing service age bulls to turn out to pasture. [/QUOTE]
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