donor prospects

[ROMAX]

How come every heifer being sold on these online sales s a potential DONOR PROSPECT,how many donors do we really need?

 

[Bradenh]

i agree. we dont use donors but it seems there is definatly no shortage of good ones anywhere

 

[zak]

3/4 of them that say they are donor prospects are really not. If there is any heat wave in a heifers predigree I would never use her as a donor. The sellers say that on them to try to add more to the price, but only a handfull are true donor prospects and out of that handfull maybe one or two are truly "donors".

Zak

 

[CCW]

I think what they mean is every calf born in America is a donor "prospect". Buy a calf and flushing it, makes it a donor, BUT not neccesarily donor quality. I'm sure every embryologist in America has seen a cow get loaded off the trailer and thought " I guess they decided to bring a recip along" and then the owner says " ain't my donor awesome" as he hands the embryologist a handful of cash, ET guy says "she looks like she'll work nicely".

All it takes is a couple of people new to the game thinking that a donor "prospect" means that the calf is the next great one. They get in a bidding war and all of sudden she brings 2X or 3X what the calf should've  brought. Probably doesn't work everytime but obviously worked for them or a buddy once upon a time.

 

[knabe]

with all the culling in the last 200 years, every cow better be donor quality.