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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1238720" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I've used literally tens of thousands of units of the stuff. If it were my choice I wouldn't sell a straw of it but you can only be so firm with your customers before they decide to buy from someone who will sell them whatever they want.</p><p>I will say that the conception on the stuff packaged within about the last year has been noticeably better but there is still a lot of the older stuff out there being marketed especially on the beef side of things as they tend to pull a bull out of the lineup to sort and collect a bunch at once so they can get them back in the conventional lineup.</p><p>If you use it use it one time on everything and consider the calves you do get as an extra heifer. If you try to use it as a tool to get the desired sex out of particular cows you're headed for disapointment as they're a good chance that your "best" cow is going to be a couple of services behind the rest of the herd as it is not designed to give you good conception.</p><p>Plus, you can't rely on 90% accuracy to mean that out of every ten pregnancies nine calves of the desired sex will be born. Instead think of rolling dice. We know that statisticlly we can roll the dice and have a one in six chance of getting a one but some people can roll the dice ten times and get a one every time and some people won't get one at all. It takes thousands of observations to really see the 90% and a lot of people with only a handful bred to sorted semen get burned.</p><p>Plus, when you add in the economics of beef production, calves are worth a lot of money regardless of sex and that extra 21 days of growth on a calf that you gain by getting a cow pregnant the first time that you breed her makes anything less than a conventional straw look like a really bad idea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1238720, member: 14661"] I've used literally tens of thousands of units of the stuff. If it were my choice I wouldn't sell a straw of it but you can only be so firm with your customers before they decide to buy from someone who will sell them whatever they want. I will say that the conception on the stuff packaged within about the last year has been noticeably better but there is still a lot of the older stuff out there being marketed especially on the beef side of things as they tend to pull a bull out of the lineup to sort and collect a bunch at once so they can get them back in the conventional lineup. If you use it use it one time on everything and consider the calves you do get as an extra heifer. If you try to use it as a tool to get the desired sex out of particular cows you're headed for disapointment as they're a good chance that your "best" cow is going to be a couple of services behind the rest of the herd as it is not designed to give you good conception. Plus, you can't rely on 90% accuracy to mean that out of every ten pregnancies nine calves of the desired sex will be born. Instead think of rolling dice. We know that statisticlly we can roll the dice and have a one in six chance of getting a one but some people can roll the dice ten times and get a one every time and some people won't get one at all. It takes thousands of observations to really see the 90% and a lot of people with only a handful bred to sorted semen get burned. Plus, when you add in the economics of beef production, calves are worth a lot of money regardless of sex and that extra 21 days of growth on a calf that you gain by getting a cow pregnant the first time that you breed her makes anything less than a conventional straw look like a really bad idea. [/QUOTE]
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