Help -- CIDR question??

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Bulldogg

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We have a heifer that I put a cidr in on Thursday night. Last night (Sunday) when I was feeding I noticed that the cidr was lying in the pen. Would it hurt anything if I put another cidr in until Thursday? I want her to come in heat with the group I synced and breed her this weekend? Any thoughts?
 

BadgerFan

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Lutylse her with the rest of the group and cross your fingers.  Hopefully, she's in the right stage in her cycle to respond to the Lute.  All the CIDR does (assuming she's already cyclic) is assure that's she's in the right stage so Lute can regress the CL triggerring a chain of events leading to estus.

That's about all you can do if you want to breed her with the rest of the group.
 
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I think that it would be best to re-insert a CIDR as soon as possible. Then proceed with the protocol you have selected as scheduled.
 

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We usually trim the blue string somewhat so that it doesn't get pulled out as easy.  I have seen heifers keep messing around with each other enough to actually pull them out.  Having said that, don't trim them too short so that you forget they are there.  I actually missed pulling one once because I trimmed the string too short and I thought I had already pulled the CIDR.  When we sleaved her to see why she wasn't cycling we found the CIDR was still there.  OOPS!!!  I know the rest of you will never make those kind of mistakes but its a fairly common occurrence for us Iowegians!!! Ha,Ha!!
 

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  I went to breed for someone once and found a cidr. Made me wonder about the heat detention. That being said, I detected for a neighbor once last summer b/c he had a wedding to attend and I sorted one into the breed pen that was still bred. She was so active that I thought for sure that she was in, but instead turned out that she was one of his best detector cows. Better than me anyway. Oops, another Iowean.
 

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CatalystGenetics said:
I think that it would be best to re-insert a CIDR as soon as possible. Then proceed with the protocol you have selected as scheduled.

It wouldn't hurt to try lute first with the original group though.  Might get lucky.  I've done this before when a cow decided she wasn't going to cooperate on the day we put CIDRs in.  Just gave her lute with the rest and she showed a great heat and got bred like nothing ever happened.

Suit yourself, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
 
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To clarify, I am still recommending to follow the protocol as designed including CIDR removal and prostagladin injection with the original group.
 
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