Preg Checking Heifers 9/12/2006

[Jassy]

Today was a great day to work the heifers..they got preg ckd..and new tags. These were AI'd by "Bullseye" We ended up 90% bred...not bad we thought.

Foggy Morning Heifers

Aaron Working the headgate

Spock (the dog) doing his job

Hubby doing secretary work for me...at the alleyway...I'm stuck in my office...(the pickup) attached to the laptop and EID Scanner... :lol:

After all the work is done...this is the perfect ending...

 

[r and s]

90% is better than not bad.

 

[Northern Rancher]

That's a nice set of working corrals-wish they were mine. If you got 90 percent you better buy your A'I tech a steak lol.

 

[kwebb]

I think 90% on heifers is really, really good. Did y'all do anything special?

 

[Faster horses]

Nice pictures, nice equipment. Thanks for sharing.

90% on AI, never heard of that before. Congrats!!!

 

[cowsense]

NR; We'd better head south for an AI refresher course from Bullseye; (could use it as an excuse for a runaway lol) 90% conception points to some pretty good heifer management prior to breeding! What kind of program did you run these heifers on Jassy?

 

[Bullhauler]

I would guess that the 90% conception rate figures in a clean-up bull.

 

[Northern Rancher]

Yeah cowsense I wouldn't mind going to New Mexico again my last trip there was too short for sure.

 

[cowsense]

Pssst......NR ............Nebraska not NM unless you know a shortcut that won't take more than a week to navigate :wink: :lol: :nod: :nod:

 

[Northern Rancher]

Cowsense every state is on the way when you travel with me-I had two buddies go to sleep with me driving and end up a state or so away.

 

[katrina]

Thanks for sharing...Nice pictures.......

 

[Jassy]

Thanks for your comments. Actually we send our heifers to a guy that backgrounds them for us, and he also AI's them...he has them for about 3 months ahead of time, so that they are on a good feed program. We have had excellent results from him. The "accidental cleanup bull" was only with the heifers 2 days...so yes that probably made some difference, but we separated those late bred ones, only 11 of them out of 250...I can't remember how many open ones, very few. The best part of AI'd calving is that they'll all be done in 2 weeks, practically to the day. We've used "Bullseye" for 2 yrs. now, and have had great success. It works great for this operation.

 

[cutebabymaker]

Jassy...
I realize I'm a lil slow on the reply here... but I really had to come on and say WOW!!! that is a really beautiful sun set... VERY NICE PIC.. I could only hope to take pics like that some day.... l8r