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How would you build a herd from scratch?
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<blockquote data-quote="R V" data-source="post: 1247370" data-attributes="member: 18595"><p>I am presuming the cows are young and the owners finances are good, but did not recently win the lottery. Since your goal is 12 pregnant recips, I would pick my favorite 3 cows and flush them once to 3 different bulls or IVF them once to the bull that you feel is the best. The rest I would AI once and then put with your favorite (probably only at this stage) bull. I would then breed those 3 cows that were collected the same way. I would repeat a similar scenario the next year to help build numbers without breaking the bank. During this process your thoughts about the cattle and what you do and don't like about them are probably going to change and you should begin to decifer which cows do the best with your management. If your cows were young enough initially and the extra bulls are selling decently, I would do this same scenario 1 more year although I would probably switch to IVF while the cows are pregnant to get the desired number of pregnant recips. (In this scenario, I would probably switch to this year 2.) Now you have more options for bull power and you can pick the ones that have done the best in your environment and hopefully they will be out of the cows that you think are the best. Now I would use primarily your own bulls for breeding and continue AI and ET/IVF with the "old" semen for specific and hopefully value added reasons, but I would not use up all of one bull. It may be many years before you know which bull was actually the best in your environment or which cow lines each bull works the best on and which bulls were just hype or at least don't work in your environment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R V, post: 1247370, member: 18595"] I am presuming the cows are young and the owners finances are good, but did not recently win the lottery. Since your goal is 12 pregnant recips, I would pick my favorite 3 cows and flush them once to 3 different bulls or IVF them once to the bull that you feel is the best. The rest I would AI once and then put with your favorite (probably only at this stage) bull. I would then breed those 3 cows that were collected the same way. I would repeat a similar scenario the next year to help build numbers without breaking the bank. During this process your thoughts about the cattle and what you do and don't like about them are probably going to change and you should begin to decifer which cows do the best with your management. If your cows were young enough initially and the extra bulls are selling decently, I would do this same scenario 1 more year although I would probably switch to IVF while the cows are pregnant to get the desired number of pregnant recips. (In this scenario, I would probably switch to this year 2.) Now you have more options for bull power and you can pick the ones that have done the best in your environment and hopefully they will be out of the cows that you think are the best. Now I would use primarily your own bulls for breeding and continue AI and ET/IVF with the "old" semen for specific and hopefully value added reasons, but I would not use up all of one bull. It may be many years before you know which bull was actually the best in your environment or which cow lines each bull works the best on and which bulls were just hype or at least don't work in your environment. [/QUOTE]
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