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From Drovers: Does AI cost or pay
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<blockquote data-quote="HOSS" data-source="post: 886356" data-attributes="member: 1863"><p>I do my own A.I. so that helps keep cost down. I A.I. my top 10 or 12 cows to high quality bulls that I could never afford to buy otherwise. CP hit on it some. The payback is in the quality improvement over a run of the mill bull. It lasts for generations. I let my bull get what I miss on the A.I. and he covers the rest of the cows that I am not A.I.'ing. I am on my second generation of A.I.'d cows. Meaning the I have bred the heifers created from my first A.I. endeavor. By doing this I am compounding the quality angle. Another pay-off with A.I. is that I run a higher performance bull for live cover and strictly breed the heifers by A.I. with low BW (high accuracy) bulls. I pick up the extra pounds from the live cover that I would not risk on the heifers. If my heifers don't take the first time they get A.I.'d again and do not get covered by my bull. It has been working out well for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HOSS, post: 886356, member: 1863"] I do my own A.I. so that helps keep cost down. I A.I. my top 10 or 12 cows to high quality bulls that I could never afford to buy otherwise. CP hit on it some. The payback is in the quality improvement over a run of the mill bull. It lasts for generations. I let my bull get what I miss on the A.I. and he covers the rest of the cows that I am not A.I.'ing. I am on my second generation of A.I.'d cows. Meaning the I have bred the heifers created from my first A.I. endeavor. By doing this I am compounding the quality angle. Another pay-off with A.I. is that I run a higher performance bull for live cover and strictly breed the heifers by A.I. with low BW (high accuracy) bulls. I pick up the extra pounds from the live cover that I would not risk on the heifers. If my heifers don't take the first time they get A.I.'d again and do not get covered by my bull. It has been working out well for me. [/QUOTE]
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