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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1077425" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>Something new I learned this week (and I have been doing this for years). Anyone experience when breeding a virgin heifer, they dance all over and whack their tail and smack you? Well, I had out Genex rep over to demonstrate using sexed semen (since we are so bad at it), to see if she was doing anything different that we were (trying to find a margin of error where we can improve so we can get better results). She uses a soft plastic tube, like a large straw, with a white plastic tip on the end. She places that in the vagina first, and then slides the pipette into that. The soft plastic tube goes all the way to the tip of the cervix, and the pipette pushes out the end of the white soft tip into the cervix. This is softer than the metal pipette, and the heifer did not even wiggle when she put the pipette in. She said she only uses it on virgin heifers, but will not breed without it. </p><p>Other than that, we are breeding the same way. Nothing different. So we will see if the heifer takes. We have one more to cycle this weekend, and then everyone has been covered once. YIPPEE!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1077425, member: 18809"] Something new I learned this week (and I have been doing this for years). Anyone experience when breeding a virgin heifer, they dance all over and whack their tail and smack you? Well, I had out Genex rep over to demonstrate using sexed semen (since we are so bad at it), to see if she was doing anything different that we were (trying to find a margin of error where we can improve so we can get better results). She uses a soft plastic tube, like a large straw, with a white plastic tip on the end. She places that in the vagina first, and then slides the pipette into that. The soft plastic tube goes all the way to the tip of the cervix, and the pipette pushes out the end of the white soft tip into the cervix. This is softer than the metal pipette, and the heifer did not even wiggle when she put the pipette in. She said she only uses it on virgin heifers, but will not breed without it. Other than that, we are breeding the same way. Nothing different. So we will see if the heifer takes. We have one more to cycle this weekend, and then everyone has been covered once. YIPPEE! [/QUOTE]
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