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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="SPH" data-source="post: 1470324" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>We hire out ours. Our guy manages the cattle operation a quarter mile down the road and has his own tank so its really convenient to have him do it. We're about 15 miles out from Hawkeye Breeders too so we have a good long term place for storage and most of the time and good place to get semen shipped to and add to our inventory. Also is a convenient place for us to collect one of our own bulls to have on inventory as we've gone back and used some AI to former herd bulls once in awhile too.</p><p></p><p>Plus when we AI we only sync up about a dozen females and do AI for 1 heat cycle before we turn them out with the bull so he only has to stop by either in the morning or evening for a few days when they are coming in heat. We don't mess around with AI too much, if they stick to the AI service great and if not we do our AI only with heifers and early calvers and breed for around Feb 20th due date so if they were to come back in heat they'd still be an early March calver with the possibility to try them AI again next year. Obviously not everyone is setup to do things the way we do or knows someone that they can do AI if they can't so it's really all a preference and convenience thing for most people to do it 1 way or another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1470324, member: 20580"] We hire out ours. Our guy manages the cattle operation a quarter mile down the road and has his own tank so its really convenient to have him do it. We're about 15 miles out from Hawkeye Breeders too so we have a good long term place for storage and most of the time and good place to get semen shipped to and add to our inventory. Also is a convenient place for us to collect one of our own bulls to have on inventory as we've gone back and used some AI to former herd bulls once in awhile too. Plus when we AI we only sync up about a dozen females and do AI for 1 heat cycle before we turn them out with the bull so he only has to stop by either in the morning or evening for a few days when they are coming in heat. We don't mess around with AI too much, if they stick to the AI service great and if not we do our AI only with heifers and early calvers and breed for around Feb 20th due date so if they were to come back in heat they'd still be an early March calver with the possibility to try them AI again next year. Obviously not everyone is setup to do things the way we do or knows someone that they can do AI if they can't so it's really all a preference and convenience thing for most people to do it 1 way or another. [/QUOTE]
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