Disastrous scanning what would you do?

I always quite liked split calving, we were only 180ish but I don't remember ever feeling busy.

The problem you have now is that you've nearly missed serving for spring already. If you chuck bulls in now your making April/May calvers not Feb /March ones
 

RJ1

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Wales
I always quite liked split calving, we were only 180ish but I don't remember ever feeling busy.

The problem you have now is that you've nearly missed serving for spring already. If you chuck bulls in now your making April/May calvers not Feb /March ones

Very sorry to hear about the scanning, particularly if it's out of the blue.

How about a late spring block next year and then run them around an extra few months to get back to an autumn block the year after? Serve all to beef so no heifers to rear from the spring block.
 

frederick

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Location
south west
It's been said before but I think worth repeating scanning cows this far in calf is pointless. The uterus will be so far over there is nothing to see.

I think you need to involve the vet anyhow but first get them to double check them by palpitation .

You can't have 50% of your cows empty without a mob bulling everyday.

We can see from our eartags we lost a few more calves than normal 80 days with no heat and then a heat every 21 days.

Empty cows are not silent bullers.

If it really is as bad as you think a laissez faire attitude to cows being in calf is very expensive.
 
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West Wales
@Headless chicken were these cows not in calf or they were in calf and lost them
This is what we need to determine as to actually what went wrong before we can move forward. Working with the ai company to see when/ if there is a pattern then we can move forward from there

It's been said before but I think worth repeating scanning cows this far in calf is pointless. The uterus will be so far over there is nothing to see.

I think you need to involve the vet anyhow but first get them to double check them by palpitation .

You can't have 50% of your cows empty without a mob bulling everyday.

We can see from our eartags we lost a few more calves than normal 80 days with no heat and then a heat every 21 days.

Empty cows are not silent bullers.

If it really is as bad as you think a laissez faire attitude to cows being in calf is very expensive.

Vets are very much involved and we will be rechecking anything that’s empty next week. Cows were manually PD through the parlour on a table which does at times mean you can’t get to exactly where you’d like to be position wise so everything through the crush and a thorough check over is the next step.

I have seen more cows than I’d like to see bulling but in no way the numbers that have come back empty. The cows I’ve seen bulling correlate to the cows I expected to be empty and the barrens. They also correlate to rub marks.
The remainder I’ve seen nothing from at all and no rub marks present on them.

speaking with the ai company and we’re not the only ones having an issue it seems
 

Jdunn55

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This is what we need to determine as to actually what went wrong before we can move forward. Working with the ai company to see when/ if there is a pattern then we can move forward from there



Vets are very much involved and we will be rechecking anything that’s empty next week. Cows were manually PD through the parlour on a table which does at times mean you can’t get to exactly where you’d like to be position wise so everything through the crush and a thorough check over is the next step.

I have seen more cows than I’d like to see bulling but in no way the numbers that have come back empty. The cows I’ve seen bulling correlate to the cows I expected to be empty and the barrens. They also correlate to rub marks.
The remainder I’ve seen nothing from at all and no rub marks present on them.

speaking with the ai company and we’re not the only ones having an issue it seems
Personally I would get a milk pregnancy test done instead of getting vet to scan them again,could miss them again!

One of my college friends has had 16/25 heifers scanned empty
 

Martyn

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Location
South west
This is what we need to determine as to actually what went wrong before we can move forward. Working with the ai company to see when/ if there is a pattern then we can move forward from there



Vets are very much involved and we will be rechecking anything that’s empty next week. Cows were manually PD through the parlour on a table which does at times mean you can’t get to exactly where you’d like to be position wise so everything through the crush and a thorough check over is the next step.

I have seen more cows than I’d like to see bulling but in no way the numbers that have come back empty. The cows I’ve seen bulling correlate to the cows I expected to be empty and the barrens. They also correlate to rub marks.
The remainder I’ve seen nothing from at all and no rub marks present on them.

speaking with the ai company and we’re not the only ones having an issue it seems
I hope you get a day away from the farm over the weekend to let it not play on your mind,
 

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