Recent content by Double R Cattle

What was the AI date? Was the cow running with a clean up bull?

I also use the 7 day CIDR program exactly as stated above.  I have been doing it for 4-5 years now, and do two different groups (Recips and AI cows) to breed the same day.  Since I am putting in embryos, I also have the vet do the AI work while she is there.  Luck has varied from year to year...

Precon is excellent for adding guts to one, it is however, high calorie as well.  Make sure you don't get her too fat.  For the moment, I am feeding a custom show mix that the local feed mill makes, with 600 lbs/ton of precon added to it.  Seems to work well for me.  I am good friends with one...

I assume that this is the terms and conditions used for other sales that this person/farm has, and they forgot to double check what it says.  Unless they have Thanksgiving calves (and even that would be pushing it) that they are selling as "spring borns", lets get real, Jan/Feb isn't spring.  I...

My experience with calving ET calves is + or - 2 weeks.  This year I had two heifers that I put I-80 x sooner embryos in that calved two weeks early.  Both of those calves were very weak and cold, both died the day the were born.  I also went a little over a week over with the last ET born.  I...

The only Fu Man Chu that I've had came 6 days early, although everything came early this year, with the exception of 1 ET calf coming a week late.

What are you trying to make, steers or heifers? If heifers, IMO you can't go wrong with broker, I-80 would be another one to consider.  Both of those matings would result in registerable half bloods.  With the cow being a heat wave, you probably should choose wisely with clubbies to make steers...

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As in using them a 2nd time?  If so, there has been research done by at least two universities with conflicting findings.  While I was at Purdue, an Animal Science grad student did his thesis on this topic.  His findings were that it is effective to reuse them.  Illinois has studied them same...

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I am taking this donor to get her flushed this weekend, pictured as a heifer.  This cow is very stout, and extremely hairy.  I was going to flush her to Fu Man Chu and Monopoly already.  My question to everyone is this: Has anyone had any Mercedes Benz calves, and if so, do you think he will...

I work at a bean crush plant, vegetable oil and soybean oil are the same thing.

Not to derail the thread, but what are you guys seeing BW wise out of Hi Ho Silver, I had a killer bull out of a PB Shorty cow this spring, but he was 130, killed the recip and he died a few days later.  Kinda scared to use him again, I'd make sure that whatever you use him on has a lot of...

I have had a couple solid gold x FSF Hardline ET calves, and they both came unassisted, but I also know that the sample group is very limited.  I am tossing around the idea of using his son, good as gold on a Warrant x Imprint cow I have that had trouble getting a dakota gold out this year...