AI procedure ?

Bestoutwest · Oct 2, 2015

The other day we started the process. Gave the cow a shot and inserted the CIDR. She was pretty crampy the vet said, as she was walking a little funny for a few hours. What's that first shot do, anyway? I take her Tuesday to get the second shot and leave her there to finish the process. Wish me luck it works.

dun · Oct 2, 2015

The first shot restarts the ovary process. Can;t think of a better way to describe it.

Lazy M · Oct 4, 2015

Kind of an odd time to breed one..not many here want July calves..

whitecow · Oct 4, 2015

The first shot, GnRH, forces ovulation if a mature follicle is present.

Bestoutwest · Oct 5, 2015

Lazy M":3r8dkfc8 said:
Kind of an odd time to breed one..not many here want July calves..

Not our ideal situation either. We have a yearling bull, but things didn't work out well with him. BIG learning experience on our end. I feel it's better to have a July calf than no calf at all.

boondocks · Oct 5, 2015

We just started timed sync protocol this weekend on 3 heifers (all 14-15 months old). They were too young to have been bred any earlier, and we don't want to have them miss a full year if possible. So we will give them one try at AI. Two of the three are being sold to a guy who doesn't mind when they calve, and we will keep the third one. Not ideal, as we have moved the rest of our herd from summer to spring for next year. Assuming the one we are keeping "takes" on the first AI (big "if"), and assuming she calves okay, we may wean her calf a bit early and try to get her bred back a bit early.

In these Northern climes, July-August aren't the best times to calve, but I'm not gonna do like some of the old-timers here who calve out in Feb-Mar. Yikes.