AI troubles

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Joe Boy

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Jan 31, 2007
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Yesterday was a tough day to AI.  We had gotten our cattle ready to breed.  I did not pull the CIDRS or give the shot until a day later than planned due to a funeral services I preached.  Everything went real well the day before and I bred one cow who had lost her CIDR.  The twenty cows and heifers were taken off of wheat pasture and put on wheat hay and alfalfa/grass mixture.  We wanted to avoid a mess with the wheat pasture.  The cows all stood in the morning.  We bred in the afternoon (as usual).  The cows were so full of dry hay that the hay in the stomach was pushing back so hard that the cirvex was pushed down and the weather changed from 50 to a high wind with light mist and  temps dropping to 28. I do my breeding outside, no coat or coveralls.  It was the toughest breeding I have had since I started doing AI work in 1979.  My arm still aches as the cows were drawn up tight.  So my advice, the big mess would have been better than all the packed in hay.
 

Bulldaddy

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Oct 5, 2009
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Valley Mills, Texas
Interesting.  I have bred them both ways and I think I would rather have them full of hay than shooting green poo.  I remember helping a friend load some stockers coming off wheat pasture last spring.  The stuff was so bad it ruined a good pair of wranglers.
 

BAILEYFARMS

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Jan 11, 2009
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Weatherford, OK
we like to pull them off pasture and hold them off hay for 12-24 hrs while in heat then turn them back on grass hay after we bred them. An empty cows makes breeding easy.
 
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