AI flask top-up fees

[Princess Pooper]

Letter from Genus this morning, liquid nitrogen top up for AI flask increasing from £41 to £81 per visit. DIY AI. What is anyone else paying and who are they using?

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Is that topping up every 10 or 12 weeks?

 

[Scholsey]

@newholland

 

[Bald Rick]

Free but then we do buy a lot of semen.
I would suspect that would be the case after you go over a certain amount of doses?

 

[newholland]

PM sent.

 

[applejack]

That's a steep increase!

 

[Princess Pooper]

Is that topping up every 10 or 12 weeks?

Every 2 months, but whether it needs it that often between Apr-Nov when we are not serving I am not sure.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Free but then we do buy a lot of semen.
I would suspect that would be the case after you go over a certain amount of doses?

small herds suffer again., but admittedly we rarely buy semen from Genus

 

[Bramble]

Paying £41/quarter and spending £4000/year on their semen

 

[Fergieman]

Paying £41/quarter and spending £4000/year on their semen

Did you get a letter? Seems to be alot, according to Facebook.

 

[wooly619]

Currently paying £240 a year

 

[Bald Rick]

small herds suffer again., but admittedly we rarely buy semen from Genus

Just for clarity, we don’t use anything from genus now as they priced themselves out of the job when they put their AI tech prices up

 

[sidjon]

Ours costs £80 a year, gets delivered for start of AI, then is removed at the end, is topped up once as kiwis have a habit of leaving the top off?

 

[Tim G]

What alternatives are there?
I seem to have inherited a newish flask and the costs of topping it up, every 8 weeks. We use it very little and asked to be topped up every other time instead but they keep 'forgetting' and come every time. Going to have to look a bit harder at it now as the costs will soon be more than the few straws in it are worth.

 

[Rossymons]

What alternatives are there?
I seem to have inherited a newish flask and the costs of topping it up, every 8 weeks. We use it very little and asked to be topped up every other time instead but they keep 'forgetting' and come every time. Going to have to look a bit harder at it now as the costs will soon be more than the few straws in it are worth.

Genus charge a handling fee of £3/straw (i think) for keeping it in their flask. Also could be worth finding a local AI tech and see if he could keep in his flask on a similar deal? At least the person responsible for looking after it gets the money then.

 

[O'Reilly]

Letter from Genus this morning, liquid nitrogen top up for AI flask increasing from £41 to £81 per visit. DIY AI. What is anyone else paying and who are they using?

Speak to cogent, I think you buy from them?

 

[O'Reilly]

Just to add that I did try going to the local boc depot, but it was far from straight forward.

 

[westwards]

Genus were 2 weeks late topping mine up and it ran dry, but to be fair when Alta checked the tank out it was leaking .
lost over 200 straws and some of it you can't get now, so don't go cheap if they do not top it regularly.

 

[Rossymons]

Genus were 2 weeks late topping mine up and it ran dry, but to be fair when Alta checked the tank out it was leaking .
lost over 200 straws and some of it you can't get now, so don't go cheap if they do not top it regularly.

An issue like yours is a disaster. That's the reason we dip ours every week.

If you haven't got a dipper then get your AI company to give you one FOC.

Simple note in your diary - expect a 2-3cm drop every week. Anything more than that and it could well be failing.

 

[Farmer Keith]

Letter from Genus this morning, liquid nitrogen top up for AI flask increasing from £41 to £81 per visit. DIY AI. What is anyone else paying and who are they using?

That is surely a misprint???