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<blockquote data-quote="Dixie2542" data-source="post: 1770358" data-attributes="member: 30715"><p>Which breed? - I can only speak to Angus. Started down that road seven years ago and learned a lot along the way. I don't even look at embryo's unless they are from a proven cow (older cow, calving on time with many offspring to show) from a proven cow family that's been a proven successful donor herself (produces at least avg# embroys that are mostly 1 or 2 grade eggs) and has a high percentage rate of successful live births (high percentage of embryos sticking in recep cow). - As far as bulls, older proven genetics that have fertile, milking females is what we prefer. We now have our own donors, so we don't usually pull from other programs now, just the bulls, and we are not in the bull of the month club. We learned that lesson too (thankfully with just AI'ing) with a couple of traits we don't care for, so we culled hard and deep to remove those unwanted traits and now don't use brand new genetics... So for us solid quality genetics, structurally sound, with good maternal instincts (is the cow even a good mother?) combined with proven, fertile bulls in our breed is the only way we do ET now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dixie2542, post: 1770358, member: 30715"] Which breed? - I can only speak to Angus. Started down that road seven years ago and learned a lot along the way. I don't even look at embryo's unless they are from a proven cow (older cow, calving on time with many offspring to show) from a proven cow family that's been a proven successful donor herself (produces at least avg# embroys that are mostly 1 or 2 grade eggs) and has a high percentage rate of successful live births (high percentage of embryos sticking in recep cow). - As far as bulls, older proven genetics that have fertile, milking females is what we prefer. We now have our own donors, so we don't usually pull from other programs now, just the bulls, and we are not in the bull of the month club. We learned that lesson too (thankfully with just AI'ing) with a couple of traits we don't care for, so we culled hard and deep to remove those unwanted traits and now don't use brand new genetics... So for us solid quality genetics, structurally sound, with good maternal instincts (is the cow even a good mother?) combined with proven, fertile bulls in our breed is the only way we do ET now. [/QUOTE]
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