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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 628651" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>This is still economics. Lorenzo wants ~800++ dairy heifers. Factoring in that he will still get some bulls with the sexed semen, some of the heifers will die, some of the heifers won't be keeper quality he has 900 pregnant recipients. To get the same results without sexing the semen, he would need ~1700 recipients. I honestly do not know enough about Uruguay economics to even guess about a budget there; but if this were the U.S. and your cost of keeping a recip for a year is ~$500. Dairy heifers sell for $1000++. You make $500 off every heifer. Newborn dairy bulls sell (if at all) for ~$100. You lose $400 off every bull born. Weaned 500 lb dairy steers sell for ~80 cent a lb ($400) minus the cost of raising him to that age. You probably still lose $250 or more. 800 more bulls being born would cost this project $200,000 to $320,000. It is really hard playing with the numbers to make the case that Lorenzo has not saved his customers a big chunk of money by implanting mostly heifer embryos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 628651, member: 7645"] This is still economics. Lorenzo wants ~800++ dairy heifers. Factoring in that he will still get some bulls with the sexed semen, some of the heifers will die, some of the heifers won't be keeper quality he has 900 pregnant recipients. To get the same results without sexing the semen, he would need ~1700 recipients. I honestly do not know enough about Uruguay economics to even guess about a budget there; but if this were the U.S. and your cost of keeping a recip for a year is ~$500. Dairy heifers sell for $1000++. You make $500 off every heifer. Newborn dairy bulls sell (if at all) for ~$100. You lose $400 off every bull born. Weaned 500 lb dairy steers sell for ~80 cent a lb ($400) minus the cost of raising him to that age. You probably still lose $250 or more. 800 more bulls being born would cost this project $200,000 to $320,000. It is really hard playing with the numbers to make the case that Lorenzo has not saved his customers a big chunk of money by implanting mostly heifer embryos. [/QUOTE]
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