Victoria":2ooo41h7 said:
la4angus: Hope you don't mind a couple questions. Is it harder for a cow to get pregnant through AI than with a bull? Does it make it more difficult for them to conceive if they are brought into heat through a shot than if you wait for them to do it naturally?
We can synch a group of cows, and breed them all. Sometimes all but 2 or 3 will settle on first service, then these other 2 or 3 will come in heat maybe 2 or 3 times again. It seems like the shots will kind of mess up their cycling, and set them back a bit. So I would have to say that the ones that don't settle on the first service are harder to conceive than if you wait for a natural heat. Actually sometimes a cow will not come back into heat when expected but maybe about 3 weeks later.