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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 73449" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>We're 100% AI (although we hand bred a few to Macho last year plus AI'd to him). I feel one bull cannot give you everything you need to match to each & every cow you own. Unless your herd is a "cookie cutter" herd. I pick & choose a bull to match each cows. Now, I don't mean I breed a different bull to each & every cow. But I pick out a few bulls, than decide what cows to put them on.</p><p>We don't use a lot of hormones to sync. I just heat detect. I have a starting date & ending date. We shoot for a 45 day calving, but that never happens. First, we breed our heifers to calve first - so that adds 2 weeks, than we always have a late one for some "good reason".</p><p>We now have a "bull around" and it's no fun trying to find a place for him. Of course, we're not set up to have a bull on the farm. I'm fortunate that he REALLY respects 1 strand fences.</p><p>I have to admit, some years, it sure would be simple to just say, "today we start breeding" - and turn a bull out & forget them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 73449, member: 968"] We're 100% AI (although we hand bred a few to Macho last year plus AI'd to him). I feel one bull cannot give you everything you need to match to each & every cow you own. Unless your herd is a "cookie cutter" herd. I pick & choose a bull to match each cows. Now, I don't mean I breed a different bull to each & every cow. But I pick out a few bulls, than decide what cows to put them on. We don't use a lot of hormones to sync. I just heat detect. I have a starting date & ending date. We shoot for a 45 day calving, but that never happens. First, we breed our heifers to calve first - so that adds 2 weeks, than we always have a late one for some "good reason". We now have a "bull around" and it's no fun trying to find a place for him. Of course, we're not set up to have a bull on the farm. I'm fortunate that he REALLY respects 1 strand fences. I have to admit, some years, it sure would be simple to just say, "today we start breeding" - and turn a bull out & forget them. [/QUOTE]
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