AI breeding cows

[Hanta Yo]

Here's our set-up. It works real well, the cows go right in, around the panels to look for a "hole". Here's the entry way: (I apologize for the blurriness of the first two pics )

This system seems to work well... the cows think they are going in the direction where their calves are bawling.

The cows go into the entry way, follow the panels and see the "hole" right away. They don't seem to have a problem finding and going into the "hole".

In the "hole" and on around...

Into the AI house

We can breed 2 at a time

Two excellent AI breeders doing their job

The doors to freedom and my calf...

Wha' hoppened??????

I'm outta here!!!!

You won't be hearing from me in the next few days because we will be peaking out for AI, as in 60 cows/day :shock:

 

[WyomingRancher]

Thanks for the AI tour, looks like an efficient set-up ! Your cattle look good!

 

[Northern Rancher]

I'll be thinking of those next time I'm A'I'ing out in the rain. I tried using a breeding barn but I didn't like it too much-it had a few design flaws yours look like they work great though.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I don't know much about AI but I do know you need to invest in some #9 wire. That Barbed just doesn't turn my crank for tying things together. And I know wire. :wink: :lol:

 

[JBC]

Do you breed on natural heats or do you use some type of synchronization protocall.




JBC

 

[efb]

Well, I am off to the last day of A.I. school in a few minutes. Hope I do better today than I did yesterday. I'm not feeling too confident right now.

 

[Cal]

Thanks for sharing. Did you teach MontanaCowgurl to AI yet? She'd sure smell purdy when she got to school if she could do a few cows every morning. :wink:

 

[Hanta Yo]

Do you breed on natural heats or do you use some type of synchronization protocall.




JBC

We give the cows GnRH followed by Prostaglandin a week later. We had some cows in standing heat the day we gave GnRH, we bred them because we weren't sure if they would have a functional CL in a week. We put bulls out during the week inbetween shots, we had a bunch come in the day of the Lutalyse shot so we bred them. Today was our big day, we bred 67 today (54 of them tonight). They will taper down big time from now on. We heat detect.

 

[Hanta Yo]

Thanks for sharing. Did you teach MontanaCowgurl to AI yet? She'd sure smell purdy when she got to school if she could do a few cows every morning. :wink:

She is learning, when we were preg testing earlier this year, sw found the "perfect" 90 day PG cow before the calf falls over the pelvic brim and becomes lost. MCG got to feel a "big bubble" and could bounce the calf around with her hand. I don't know how else to explain it. She hasn't attempted to AI, however. Our other AI technician is the one and only professor who taught us AI incollege...Dr. Ray Ansotegui.

 

[mytfarms]

I don't know much about AI but I do know you need to invest in some #9 wire. That Barbed just doesn't turn my crank for tying things together. And I know wire. :wink: :lol:

I thought that was barbed wire there hooldin' together the works. We like smooth balin' wire out here. It is said tp hold the state of Colorado together.

 

[sic 'em reds]

That looks like a nice set up, out of the weather. Seems like every spring when I have the cows set up to breed, it decides to rain or just be cold. Hope you get good results!!!

 

[LimousinGirl]

Hey, that looks fun. Never done AI yet, hope to sometime though, whats the white thing hangin from the cow in the last picture?

 

[Hanta Yo]

Hey, that looks fun. Never done AI yet, hope to sometime though, whats the white thing hangin from the cow in the last picture?

:lol2: It's a piece of paper toweling. We try to do things in a cleanly way :wink:

 

[LimousinGirl]

Hey, that looks fun. Never done AI yet, hope to sometime though, whats the white thing hangin from the cow in the last picture?

:lol2: It's a piece of paper toweling. We try to do things in a cleanly way :wink:

Ha, okay, I see!! :lol2: