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    Breeding the Perfect Bull

    A very well written article about breeding cattle,  cloning, and being a cow-calf producer. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Breeding-the-Perfect-Bull.html?c=y&page=1
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    Collection costs

    Curious about the costs of having a bull collected? I am sure that there is a set cost, and a per straw basis. This is a bull that would go up and come home in the same day preferably. We're in Iowa, so I am guessing the logical places are Nichols and Hawkeye, any preferences toward one or the...
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    Lightest calf born alive

    Last Thursday we had a commercial cow have a 30 pound, fully developed, live heifer calf (the bull is a Jack Frost son). The vet was out semen checking and he was pretty perplexed as well, said that the placenta may have torn away a little, so it could be malnourished, and a little premature...
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