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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7151678" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>AI can get you a top notch beef bull, much better than the run of the mill stock bulls found on farm. Few of us dairy farmers, would pay the several £1,000 it needs to buy one. But that money buys an awful lot of beef semen. As we move further down the xbred route, our fertility keeps improving, the need for a quality sweeper bull decreases, our conception to 1st service, was 75%, of the other 25%, those that didn't hold to 2nd, are definitely problem breeders, some just keep on repeating, in our 7week block, we only have 2 cows, +ve, that were served x3, the next lot, not p'd, yet, 19 cows, are not pretty reading, those that are i/c, will either milk and kill, or sell i/c. So it's not really cost effective to spend several £1000, on a sweeper, ours will be a home reared bbx bull, out of a beefy cow. As we move ever closer to the ban on shooting shite calves at birth, those calves we produce, for sale, must be, of 'quality', to achieve a decent price, 2nd, or 3rd quality calves, will be heavily discounted, through the numbers available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7151678, member: 86168"] AI can get you a top notch beef bull, much better than the run of the mill stock bulls found on farm. Few of us dairy farmers, would pay the several £1,000 it needs to buy one. But that money buys an awful lot of beef semen. As we move further down the xbred route, our fertility keeps improving, the need for a quality sweeper bull decreases, our conception to 1st service, was 75%, of the other 25%, those that didn't hold to 2nd, are definitely problem breeders, some just keep on repeating, in our 7week block, we only have 2 cows, +ve, that were served x3, the next lot, not p'd, yet, 19 cows, are not pretty reading, those that are i/c, will either milk and kill, or sell i/c. So it's not really cost effective to spend several £1000, on a sweeper, ours will be a home reared bbx bull, out of a beefy cow. As we move ever closer to the ban on shooting shite calves at birth, those calves we produce, for sale, must be, of 'quality', to achieve a decent price, 2nd, or 3rd quality calves, will be heavily discounted, through the numbers available. [/QUOTE]
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