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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica06" data-source="post: 1161289" data-attributes="member: 5612"><p>We bought our own last year, after doing a ton of research and seeing one in action. We'll never go back to straight palpating or blood testing. We can confidently call bred or open at 30 days, and did one this year that we AI'd at 29 days that was very obviously bred. We can check our heifers in July, which is just about the best time to sell an open heifer at the sale, and we just checked all of our cows last week. Both groups were about 35 days at the least, in a 90 day season. We don't do a whole lot of sexing, just because we really don't need to, and we're usually in a bit of a hurry to get everything done and all the cattle out of the pens, but it would definitely be useful for someone doing a lot of ET work, or selling bred heifers in groups. </p><p></p><p>We have about 150 breeding age females. We figure that it should pay for itself in just a few years, considering that the going rate for palpating and blood testing is about $5/head, with ultrasound considerably more than that. Figure in that you can do it yourself on your own time, that you can do it multiple times a year if you need to, that you'll be much more accurate than palpating AND blood testing, that you can sort breds and opens the day you do it, and that you'll be selling your opens in a better market and taking them off the feed bill earlier, it makes a lot of sense. The more cows you have, the more sense it makes! I know that the company we bought ours from offers a unit for less than 6K. For the record, we have the ReproScan XTC with the Reproarm. The Reproarm makes ultrasound even faster....I've seen videos of vets in Australia doing 200 cows an hour. Most pregnancies you can see just about instantly.</p><p></p><p>Very, very cool tool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica06, post: 1161289, member: 5612"] We bought our own last year, after doing a ton of research and seeing one in action. We'll never go back to straight palpating or blood testing. We can confidently call bred or open at 30 days, and did one this year that we AI'd at 29 days that was very obviously bred. We can check our heifers in July, which is just about the best time to sell an open heifer at the sale, and we just checked all of our cows last week. Both groups were about 35 days at the least, in a 90 day season. We don't do a whole lot of sexing, just because we really don't need to, and we're usually in a bit of a hurry to get everything done and all the cattle out of the pens, but it would definitely be useful for someone doing a lot of ET work, or selling bred heifers in groups. We have about 150 breeding age females. We figure that it should pay for itself in just a few years, considering that the going rate for palpating and blood testing is about $5/head, with ultrasound considerably more than that. Figure in that you can do it yourself on your own time, that you can do it multiple times a year if you need to, that you'll be much more accurate than palpating AND blood testing, that you can sort breds and opens the day you do it, and that you'll be selling your opens in a better market and taking them off the feed bill earlier, it makes a lot of sense. The more cows you have, the more sense it makes! I know that the company we bought ours from offers a unit for less than 6K. For the record, we have the ReproScan XTC with the Reproarm. The Reproarm makes ultrasound even faster....I've seen videos of vets in Australia doing 200 cows an hour. Most pregnancies you can see just about instantly. Very, very cool tool. [/QUOTE]
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