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Dairy Surrogate Mother's? Disease???
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<blockquote data-quote="TheNewGuy" data-source="post: 1065771" data-attributes="member: 21345"><p>Guy's and Gal's</p><p>I'm wanting to try my hand in donor embryo's from full blood Waygu cattle in Louisiana. I'm getting out of the horse business and would like to try this for breeding the best gene's not meat production. I'm weighing my options for start up, either buying beef heffiers or verry cheep bottle-Holstine/Jersey for surrogates. The savings using bottle calfs would be huge as I'm in no hurry and still need to get my fences ready for cows. I want to implant 5-8 heffiers knowing my return will only be between 30-80% if I'm lucky!! I have spoken with a few farmers around here about price and I can pick up the bottle calf's at 150-200$$. When I asked one of the farmers about BLV he said he has never had a problem with it and all his cows are up on all shots. as far as I knoe ther is not vacanation for BLV. Should I be worried about this? I know BLV is transfered from cow to calf and many other ways around the yard. I would just want to make sure the guy isn't telling me what I want to hear to sell a couple of cows that end up destroying my herd and future plans. </p><p></p><p>Thanks.. :help:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheNewGuy, post: 1065771, member: 21345"] Guy's and Gal's I'm wanting to try my hand in donor embryo's from full blood Waygu cattle in Louisiana. I'm getting out of the horse business and would like to try this for breeding the best gene's not meat production. I'm weighing my options for start up, either buying beef heffiers or verry cheep bottle-Holstine/Jersey for surrogates. The savings using bottle calfs would be huge as I'm in no hurry and still need to get my fences ready for cows. I want to implant 5-8 heffiers knowing my return will only be between 30-80% if I'm lucky!! I have spoken with a few farmers around here about price and I can pick up the bottle calf's at 150-200$$. When I asked one of the farmers about BLV he said he has never had a problem with it and all his cows are up on all shots. as far as I knoe ther is not vacanation for BLV. Should I be worried about this? I know BLV is transfered from cow to calf and many other ways around the yard. I would just want to make sure the guy isn't telling me what I want to hear to sell a couple of cows that end up destroying my herd and future plans. Thanks.. :help: [/QUOTE]
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