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There was a big research project done comparing TAI in 5-Day Cidr vs 7-Day Cidr, I believe that it was a multi year study from Ohio State. They found that there was not a significant difference in the two protocols, but there was  a pretty big range across the data. They did find a significant...

Winter Springs kinda went the same avenue that I was thinking when I saw this post. In building a herd I think that its best to look at what you want your end point to be, in terms of your mature cow makeup and what you want them to ideally produce. Then stay disciplined in allocating resources...

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In general you will see about a 10-15% decrease while using sexed semen vs conventional.

$50 for conventional semen and $120 for sexed.

Many people may take this the wrong way, but in my opinion it's a way of dumbing down breeding to make selection easier for the buyer and sales easier for the seller. They have tools to make the better breeding points of a bull look good, thus filling a niche they can sell semen to.

Does anyone have any idea what its worth? I have a couple units that someone inquired about buying.

Universal Semen Sales has him as Homo Polled and Homo Black, however the ASA doesn't have that information. The ASA only show him as hetero polled, hetero black.

I know One Eyed Jack is Homo Polled and I believe Grand Fortune is too.

One Eyed Jack Grand Fortune Gunslinger Macho

If you implement timed AI correctly your pregnancy rates will still be acceptable. Depending on the operation you need to pencil out to see if you can afford the additional labor associated with estrus detection and handling. In most operations time and labor are what limit the use of AI, so TAI...

I would tend to agree with what others have said. You're a lot better off.  ABS only charges 250 dollars for the entire 4 day class, so I would think that you would be a lot better suited getting hands on practice in a bunch of cows. At first, it can be hard to tell where you're at inside a cow...

Frame score is a number that compares Hip height to age in months. This allows for comparison of skeletal size across different ages.

Thank you! I'll have to look into him.

He looks like an intriguing bull, but I'd rather not breed her to something with that much Dream On.