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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 727088" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>The sexed semen I've seen advertised is 4 - 5 times the cost of regular semen.</p><p></p><p>Most dairy folks here reckon on five inseminations for every heifer, I know my herd does it in four. So for the same cost, I get at least as many guaranteed heifers.</p><p>And like Jeanne, getting cows in calf early in the mating season is more important than generating heifers - the highest chance of a profitable outcome is having the cows calved in a short space of time ahead of peak grass growth. There's a market for surplus heifers some years, not others; even in the good years you'd hardly cover their cost of AI and milk.</p><p>The only use I can see for sexed semen under my system of dairying is getting more heifers from elite cows. Right now, I don't have any of those. Good cows. Cows I like a lot. But if they give me bulls every year, I reckon I can put up with that - especially when every drop in conception rate risks the cow herself if she can't get back in calf in time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 727088, member: 9267"] The sexed semen I've seen advertised is 4 - 5 times the cost of regular semen. Most dairy folks here reckon on five inseminations for every heifer, I know my herd does it in four. So for the same cost, I get at least as many guaranteed heifers. And like Jeanne, getting cows in calf early in the mating season is more important than generating heifers - the highest chance of a profitable outcome is having the cows calved in a short space of time ahead of peak grass growth. There's a market for surplus heifers some years, not others; even in the good years you'd hardly cover their cost of AI and milk. The only use I can see for sexed semen under my system of dairying is getting more heifers from elite cows. Right now, I don't have any of those. Good cows. Cows I like a lot. But if they give me bulls every year, I reckon I can put up with that - especially when every drop in conception rate risks the cow herself if she can't get back in calf in time. [/QUOTE]
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