Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeding / Calving Issues
Using GenChoice 90 sexed semen ?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1056172" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I haven't used any Genex stuff but the technology is the same as what I've used and I've used tens of thousands of units of the stuff. Till-Hill is about right on conception differences overall based on my experience but I've seen a TON of variation amongst individual bulls. I've had bulls that were consistently higher performing bulls in conventional packaging be consistently poor performers in sorted semen and a lot of bulls don't sort well at all so that 90% could be somewhat of a crapshoot. </p><p>If I were going to recommend it to anyone, my advice would be to start breeding early in the season and then switch to conventional semen or bulls with no regard to who got bred to what and take any extra calves of the desired sex as a bonus. Waiting for the optimum time and then chasing your best cows around with it will turn into your best cows open and you mad. ;-) </p><p>I would also recommend choosing a bull that has been offered as sorted for a while. Typically they'll sort the up and comers and the proven bulls that have already saturated their market as the proven bulls in-between that can sell every straw they produce will be kept in conventional semen production. If you find one that's decent and has been offered as sorted for quite a while then you can kind of trust that he's doing what he's supposed to do and the calves are mostly of the desired sex. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1056172, member: 14661"] I haven't used any Genex stuff but the technology is the same as what I've used and I've used tens of thousands of units of the stuff. Till-Hill is about right on conception differences overall based on my experience but I've seen a TON of variation amongst individual bulls. I've had bulls that were consistently higher performing bulls in conventional packaging be consistently poor performers in sorted semen and a lot of bulls don't sort well at all so that 90% could be somewhat of a crapshoot. If I were going to recommend it to anyone, my advice would be to start breeding early in the season and then switch to conventional semen or bulls with no regard to who got bred to what and take any extra calves of the desired sex as a bonus. Waiting for the optimum time and then chasing your best cows around with it will turn into your best cows open and you mad. ;-) I would also recommend choosing a bull that has been offered as sorted for a while. Typically they'll sort the up and comers and the proven bulls that have already saturated their market as the proven bulls in-between that can sell every straw they produce will be kept in conventional semen production. If you find one that's decent and has been offered as sorted for quite a while then you can kind of trust that he's doing what he's supposed to do and the calves are mostly of the desired sex. ;-) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeding / Calving Issues
Using GenChoice 90 sexed semen ?
Top