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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 65399" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>First off, comception rates in dairys frequently aren't as high as in beef herds. Dairy cows a re typically pushed pretty hard and with the money that a heifer is worth, it seems that people just keep heifers that should go down the road becasue of poor fertility in their mothers.</p><p>OK, off my soap box.</p><p>I heat detect for a minimum of 1/2 an hour first thing in the morning and again late in the evening. An hour is maybe better, but I can't remember the last time that I saw someone in heat in the last half hour that I hadn't seen in the first 10-15 minutes.</p><p>You could also use Kamars or one of the heat detection devices that glues on the tail head and shows if they've been ridden. We tried a bunch of different things when I didn't have time to actaully watch and the one that worked as well as any other and was a bunch cheaper was a paint stick.</p><p>I also keep a chart of when who is in heat and when they're bred. Makes it much easier to know who and when to keep an eye on.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.leblink.com/~dunmovin/heat-chart.htm" target="_blank">http://www.leblink.com/~dunmovin/heat-chart.htm</a></p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 65399, member: 34"] First off, comception rates in dairys frequently aren't as high as in beef herds. Dairy cows a re typically pushed pretty hard and with the money that a heifer is worth, it seems that people just keep heifers that should go down the road becasue of poor fertility in their mothers. OK, off my soap box. I heat detect for a minimum of 1/2 an hour first thing in the morning and again late in the evening. An hour is maybe better, but I can't remember the last time that I saw someone in heat in the last half hour that I hadn't seen in the first 10-15 minutes. You could also use Kamars or one of the heat detection devices that glues on the tail head and shows if they've been ridden. We tried a bunch of different things when I didn't have time to actaully watch and the one that worked as well as any other and was a bunch cheaper was a paint stick. I also keep a chart of when who is in heat and when they're bred. Makes it much easier to know who and when to keep an eye on. [url]http://www.leblink.com/~dunmovin/heat-chart.htm[/url] dun [/QUOTE]
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