Well, I have been following everyone's comments. I was going to leave it like that, the thing is, honestly, I am little bit afraid of not giving a good answer for evryone. English is not my language so i don't understood MANY of the comments, sometimes it was even difficult to understand if someone was beating me or not :lol:
All I can say is that KMacGinley and Brandonm22 have understood perfectly what I was doing. You can't understand this business or this given business, to be more specific, without knowing what was hapening in those days here in my country.
Imagen this scenario, suddenly producing milk was a GREAT business more than ever in our country. But not only here, also in our giant neighbour Brazil. So suddenly everyone wants dairy femals, Brazil started to import lots of animals alive for their dairy farms, everyone went crazy, prices went up quickly, also a very big international dairy company started to buy every single dairy cow around, as KMacginley said, there was a big demand for grassy conditions cross breed cows to start running several high scale dairy farms.
At the same time, Uruguay has LOTS of herefords (7 million heads), so you can find very cheap receips for giving birth dairy cows which there were not many around. So we become in a kind of females factory that gives this big company the possibility of assure (sp?) themselves a huge amount of females for their dairy farms to be used in a couple of years.
It was a (how to say it in english...) when many things putt together and something make sense, but in a specific moment not for allways, do you understand what i am trying to say ???
At the end of the day was a LOT of work that gaves us a LOT of expertise, we learnt a LOT. Finally we will not be doing too much money for the time and effort we put, but not everything is measured in money, it was something that we don't know if we will be able to achieve it, as i said, there was not many similar experiences in the world of producing this huge amount of femals at the same time in a same farm. So we believe that anyway is was worthwile.
Today is not more a good business, what was a good thing one year ago, today is completely impossible, numbers will not close. The prices of milk drop 50% in a couple of months and the dairy cows prices also went down.
There were good and not so good cows from where we took the oocytes, but in general we have very good dairy genetics. Many cows were sent to slaughter houses because of problems in their udders (sp?) or other things that nothing has to do with good productivity.
Indeed we were producing 100 embryos per sexed straw. Every day we went to the slaughter house we brought a lot of ovaries (sp?) from them we aspirated the oocytes, we madurate them during 24 hours before inseminating them.
Well I got tired of writing in english, is not easy to me.
What i don't understood is why some people beat me :???:
If anyone there said this was not really a good test, pushing the limits of producing high volume females, and that the pregnacies rate were not good using sexed embryos, well, let me tell you that they don't know what they are talking about or my english is much worse than what I think it is and nobody understood a word of what I am saying :lol:
Hope this very basic explanation helps you to understand a little bit more...
Thanks
L