inyati13":3gpzpsmd said:
cow pollinater":3gpzpsmd said:
Inyati, I'll bet you lost a lot less than 20%. It varies by company and what they use to extend the semen but even a little bit makes a big mess.
Would the extender material be the first out of the straw on the crimped end?
No. The extender is evenly mixed in the semen to extend the life of the sperm. If it was not evenly mixed, the semen would die a lot quicker. Only time will tell if you get her stuck or not.
Just an FYI, as soon as we withdraw the the pipette from the cow, we immediately check the straw for ID and to make sure it is empty. We have done the same thing in our early days, and if there is a mistake, we can quickly correct it if the cow is still in the chute. Once we check that everything was done correctly, we let the cow out. We only had an "oops" one time, I told my husband to breed a heifer to Dominator and that his semen was in goblet one. I went to bring in another animal, and came back to him just finishing up. When he was checking the straw, I noticed it was the wrong color (I had just used the same bull that morning on her and decided to drop another straw in since she was still standing, and the straw was blue - the empty one he had in his hand was green!). I got mad at him, and he said he pulled Dominator, but it was in 4 and not 1 like I said. He did not realize we had two different sets of semen from two different Dominator bulls, a red and a black one (not related at all). The black one, Ellington Dominator, is a calving ease bull carried by ABS and who I had used in the morning, he used SVF Dominator, a new bull that was not identified as a calving ease bull and was red. Ugh :help:
We decided to wait and see, and of course, she stuck. I figured we would just DNA the calf when it was born, because the only way we would know for sure who the sire was would be if it was red, but I did not know if the heifer was Hetero or Homo black (we were going to call the calf "Who's Your Daddy"). Well, she calved, and we assisted a little. She did not need it, but we happened to be waiting to go to bed and thought we would just get it over with. The calf looked black at first, so we were jabbing each other as to "who" actually stuck her. When the calf dried off, he was a deep cherry red
which meant that HE stuck her and not I. That calf went on to win the carcass contest last year, and I have posted lots of pictures on here of him and his rib eye area. A good mistake, if you can say that, that could have been bad. :nod:
