Cooperator herds---how do you compensate them?

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aj

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I don't think commercial guys here would want to mess with the deal. They wouldn't understand it and its just another headache. The big calves and even things like a pha calf would be a disaster I would think. A commercial guy who has like a 45 day calving window isn't going to want to start stringing out calving dates and whatnot. jmo
 

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We tried this once and had it all worked out that they would get 200 dollars plus market price on any calves we took and they would keep any we didnt choose plus we paid all the vet and supply bills, the first year we had a sale we just sold first come first serve and had a outstanding bull that we ended up getting over 15,000 right out of his field, well 2 weeks later we received a bill for 1500 dollars for the calf and before the buyer could pick up the calf we had to pay that first, we never had anything in writing and paid the ammount, now I know thats not much compared for what we sold the calf for but that wasnt the deal so if you ever do this I would get everything in writing before you do anything.
 

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How would you work a deal where you just wanted to A.I. another person's cows and have a pick of the calves?
 

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oakbar said:
I am probably going to try to work with a couple of local friends to use some of their cows as recips next spring.    How do the rest of you compensate your cooperators and what types of agreements do you have?   What things wouldn't you do again?
My deal is that i own the donor and pay for all costs including breeding , collection , transfer and recip set-up . The cooperator provides the recips and bears all costs associated with raising the calves and at weening we split the calves 50/50 . I make the first selection and him second and so on . This fall we have 6 yellow jacket x foreplay calves . 5 heifers and 1 bull .
 

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Can you synchronize cows for a tranfer without freezing the embryo's(do it direct). I'll admit I am ignorant on the subject.(I'm sure alot of people would agree). Say I furnished 5 cows I owned that weren't world beaters...and the donor....transfer embryo's direct...and if any left over freeze them? When I was a college boy they were doing the (neanderthal) style surgical method. Thanks in advance.
 

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aj said:
Can you synchronize cows for a tranfer without freezing the embryo's(do it direct). I'll admit I am ignorant on the subject.(I'm sure alot of people would agree). Say I furnished 5 cows I owned that weren't world beaters...and the donor....transfer embryo's direct...and if any left over freeze them? When I was a college boy they were doing the (neanderthal) style surgical method. Thanks in advance.

That is the best way to do it for highest percentage of eggs taking usually. I try to do it that way when I can but it usually don't work out that way.
 
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