Question

[SHAGGY]

So i have a cow that is about 10 or 11 years old and I ai'd her earlier this spring and she has passed over bout three times. Now being an older cow her cervix is relatively "way down in there" when I ai her, but the other day she came back into heat and I re-bred her but this time her cervix was only like a couple inches in, almost like breeding a heifer.  Any idea whats going on? Thanks

 

[DakotaCow]

This can depend on the amout of stress she was under right before she went into the chute or the straining she was doing before you bred her. There is a lot of room for movement in a cows repro tract and no two are the same. I would say that there is nothing wrong just that you hadnt bred her when she had been like that before. <cowboy>

 

[lightnin4]

I agree with Dakotacow.  The cervix can move around some.  I had a heifer last year that I AI'd twice unsuccessfully.  A friend came to breed her the 3rd time and he said he didn't know how I reached her cervix because she had a long repro tract (I thought I got to the end of it but apparently I didn't).  He bred her the other day for me and said her tract was "wadded up" near her back end and he had to stretch it out to breed her.