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<blockquote data-quote="molbadger" data-source="post: 1452298" data-attributes="member: 19363"><p>All milk producers are trying to get cows pregnant. That's how they get milk production. If you have a dairy cow, you're going to milk it and while milking it try to get it pregnant. So almost every milk producer has baby calves born on the farm. </p><p></p><p>Like I said, most milk producers raise their own replacements. Some contract out raising and will move the Heifer at some point, usually somewhere between a few days old up to weaning age. If the milk producer is selling the calves and buying replacements, they generally will sell a few day old calf and buy back a pregnant Heifer. </p><p></p><p>Heifer raisers could, in theory, raise up a Heifer, breed it, freshen it out, keep the calf and sell the cow to a milk producer. But this is rare, most raisers and producers would rather move the Heifer before it calves.</p><p></p><p>Somewhere between 70-80% of the dairy herd is bred using artificial insemination. The rest use bulls. </p><p></p><p>There are some farms that focus on seedstock. They breed for high end genetics and are the ones most likely to use genomic testing, be registered with their breed association, and travel to high level dairy shows to compete. They sell not only cattle (both females to other dairy producers and males to bull stud companies) but also embryos that can be implanted into any other cow. They do milk the cows they have and advertise production numbers but the majority of their revenue comes from genetic sales.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="molbadger, post: 1452298, member: 19363"] All milk producers are trying to get cows pregnant. That's how they get milk production. If you have a dairy cow, you're going to milk it and while milking it try to get it pregnant. So almost every milk producer has baby calves born on the farm. Like I said, most milk producers raise their own replacements. Some contract out raising and will move the Heifer at some point, usually somewhere between a few days old up to weaning age. If the milk producer is selling the calves and buying replacements, they generally will sell a few day old calf and buy back a pregnant Heifer. Heifer raisers could, in theory, raise up a Heifer, breed it, freshen it out, keep the calf and sell the cow to a milk producer. But this is rare, most raisers and producers would rather move the Heifer before it calves. Somewhere between 70-80% of the dairy herd is bred using artificial insemination. The rest use bulls. There are some farms that focus on seedstock. They breed for high end genetics and are the ones most likely to use genomic testing, be registered with their breed association, and travel to high level dairy shows to compete. They sell not only cattle (both females to other dairy producers and males to bull stud companies) but also embryos that can be implanted into any other cow. They do milk the cows they have and advertise production numbers but the majority of their revenue comes from genetic sales. [/QUOTE]
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