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Artificial Insemination (AI) for Cattle
Would you still AI if you had to hire it done?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1469470" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>Are you making money on the cows now? If not, don't spend more money. The only reason I ask is because of the local bias against the breed here. </p><p></p><p>Can you make more money from the calves if they are out of AI bulls? If not, then why spend the money and effort?</p><p></p><p>Can you AI your best cow(s) occasionally to get a new herd sire or replacement heifers? Best money you will ever spend.</p><p></p><p>Some of the best AI results will come from crossbred calves that grow better or sell better in most herds. Or you can pay for the promotion and sell more purebred with extra overhead. Without a lot of knowledge and experience on bloodlines, breeders, lines and individual bulls in a breed there is a lot of chaff in AI work at first. Folks and companies oversell and over promote their cattle; sometime naively and sometimes on purpose. After almost 40 years of AI, there are less than 5 bulls that I am sure that should have been used and dozens that were valuable for educational purposes and not ones that left their mark here. And in retrospect, the best bulls ever used here were home raised and still are that way. Gestational programming sets that up whether we like it or not. We use AI to set up lines and align types and then let the bulls and cows prove good or bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1469470, member: 24565"] Are you making money on the cows now? If not, don't spend more money. The only reason I ask is because of the local bias against the breed here. Can you make more money from the calves if they are out of AI bulls? If not, then why spend the money and effort? Can you AI your best cow(s) occasionally to get a new herd sire or replacement heifers? Best money you will ever spend. Some of the best AI results will come from crossbred calves that grow better or sell better in most herds. Or you can pay for the promotion and sell more purebred with extra overhead. Without a lot of knowledge and experience on bloodlines, breeders, lines and individual bulls in a breed there is a lot of chaff in AI work at first. Folks and companies oversell and over promote their cattle; sometime naively and sometimes on purpose. After almost 40 years of AI, there are less than 5 bulls that I am sure that should have been used and dozens that were valuable for educational purposes and not ones that left their mark here. And in retrospect, the best bulls ever used here were home raised and still are that way. Gestational programming sets that up whether we like it or not. We use AI to set up lines and align types and then let the bulls and cows prove good or bad. [/QUOTE]
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