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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1623239" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>If you are only breeding 20 or less cows I would suggest the protocol we use for a herd of that size if you want to tighten up your calving season. If you do any AI breeding or not sync up your early calvers to calve at the earliest date you want to calve at. Turn everything out with your herd bull after you are done with AI and those that don't stick to the AI service likely will get bred by the bull on their next heat cycle and then set a hard date of when you want your last calf born then pull your bull. Any females that come up open at preg check you cull. We cut down our herd of about 20 females to 12 last year and we have calved out 11 of 12. First calf came on Feb 17 which was nearly a week early from due date and most recent calf came on 3/21 with last cow to calve in early April. We were over 50% done in about a week in February with AI calves and the next round calved all within a few days 3 weeks later. Dad wants to sync the whole herd with CIDRs this year and either AI or turn them out with the bull as it makes it so much easier just to calve out all at once in a short time frame.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1623239, member: 20580"] If you are only breeding 20 or less cows I would suggest the protocol we use for a herd of that size if you want to tighten up your calving season. If you do any AI breeding or not sync up your early calvers to calve at the earliest date you want to calve at. Turn everything out with your herd bull after you are done with AI and those that don't stick to the AI service likely will get bred by the bull on their next heat cycle and then set a hard date of when you want your last calf born then pull your bull. Any females that come up open at preg check you cull. We cut down our herd of about 20 females to 12 last year and we have calved out 11 of 12. First calf came on Feb 17 which was nearly a week early from due date and most recent calf came on 3/21 with last cow to calve in early April. We were over 50% done in about a week in February with AI calves and the next round calved all within a few days 3 weeks later. Dad wants to sync the whole herd with CIDRs this year and either AI or turn them out with the bull as it makes it so much easier just to calve out all at once in a short time frame. [/QUOTE]
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