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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 373729" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>The whole subject of freemartinism and an animal not breeding may not have anything to do with one another. A freemartin has a male chromosome that it gets when the fluids co-mingle early in gestation. Just because a female of any species doesn;t breed doesn;t mean that she carrys the oddball chromosome. There are too many other reasons why she may not be fertile. UC Davis can run a blood test (actually they have it done by an outside lab) that weill detect the chromosome. My old mentor used to refer to "functional freemartins". Those were heifers that weren't born twin to a bull but still didn;t settle for one reason or another.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 373729, member: 34"] The whole subject of freemartinism and an animal not breeding may not have anything to do with one another. A freemartin has a male chromosome that it gets when the fluids co-mingle early in gestation. Just because a female of any species doesn;t breed doesn;t mean that she carrys the oddball chromosome. There are too many other reasons why she may not be fertile. UC Davis can run a blood test (actually they have it done by an outside lab) that weill detect the chromosome. My old mentor used to refer to "functional freemartins". Those were heifers that weren't born twin to a bull but still didn;t settle for one reason or another. dun [/QUOTE]
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