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Embryos.....Worth the cost?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 843474" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Dawn - ouch - $55,000 down to "few thousand" 3 years later. </p><p>Let's look at this on the sellers side. Purchased in 08 - (open?) flushed 5 times (most number of times you can get out of them in 1 year). 09 - bred for natural calf. 10 - flushed 5 times.</p><p>hmmm 11 - open?</p><p>So, IF, they got 10 flushes out of her, and averaged 10 embryos (nat'l avg is 5-6 I believe) - that's 100 embryos. That makes each embryo cost/worth about $5000 each - and if she averaged 20 embryos - that's still $2500/embryo. Don't think so! what a losing proposition for the seller.</p><p>11 years old is not OLD, if she WAS A GOOD DONOR. The people "in the know" in your breed, would have been bidding her up if she was a good donor. My guess is she didn't produce decent calves - or - didn't produce enough embryos to pay for herself.</p><p>I don't think ultrasounding will tell you much - other than if she is a non breeder. They can't tell you if she will only give you 1 or 25 embryos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 843474, member: 968"] Dawn - ouch - $55,000 down to "few thousand" 3 years later. Let's look at this on the sellers side. Purchased in 08 - (open?) flushed 5 times (most number of times you can get out of them in 1 year). 09 - bred for natural calf. 10 - flushed 5 times. hmmm 11 - open? So, IF, they got 10 flushes out of her, and averaged 10 embryos (nat'l avg is 5-6 I believe) - that's 100 embryos. That makes each embryo cost/worth about $5000 each - and if she averaged 20 embryos - that's still $2500/embryo. Don't think so! what a losing proposition for the seller. 11 years old is not OLD, if she WAS A GOOD DONOR. The people "in the know" in your breed, would have been bidding her up if she was a good donor. My guess is she didn't produce decent calves - or - didn't produce enough embryos to pay for herself. I don't think ultrasounding will tell you much - other than if she is a non breeder. They can't tell you if she will only give you 1 or 25 embryos. [/QUOTE]
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