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What about simmi bulls?? Any good low BW bulls that are still pretty hot?

Most of our cows are crossbread. We have been moving more into the simmi stuff, but not sure if they would be the best for heifers.

Hi Guys... We breed club calves and was wondering if anyone had a good suggestion on a heifer bull?? Something that was an easy calving bull. Thanks Jamie

The embryos are in lake city, IA and I am in Greeley, CO. Do you have any contacts in either?

I bought some embryos from an online sale. The guy that is selling them can't ship them and wants me to find a shipper to pick them up and deliver them to my house. Does anyone have a name of a company that does that?

Another question. We also have our normal AI cattle on the same mineral/feed and our conception for AI calves are really pretty good. I would think that if my conception for the AI program is good so should the donor/embryo program. Am I think about that correct?

We have been using the VitaFerm Concept-aide for the last two years. We put the cows on it in March, breed middle of June and take them off by the end of July. Not sure if we should be keeping them on it longer??

One of the concerns we have had is that we breed in June and we are going from hay to irrigated grass in the May/June time frame with the weather changes. Would it be better to keep feeding hay to try and keep the diet the same? If so, how long after breeding should we continue?

Thanks for the info. Anyone have any details on why some donor's embryos don't seem to be as high of a conception rate?

We are relatively new to the donor program. Over the last few years we have been trying to improve the conception rate of our recipient cows. This last year we put in 3 embryos from one donor and 11 from another. We got all three of the first donor but only two from the second. The cows were...

Does anyone know how much it cost to get vitro fertilization done to conventional semen?

Can you email me his contact? jm_eklund at hotmail.com

Good info.. where can I get some conventional steel force semen?

Hi guys, looking for some sexed steel force semen. Email me if you have some jm_eklund at hotmail.com Thanks

One of the best steak seasonings I have every had is "Hickory Smoked Salt" by McCormick. They advertised it for pork (which was a big mistake). Unfortunately, they don't make it anymore because they started a different line of steak seasonings. Bummer!! Jamie http://BigDogCattle.com