DIY AI and buying semen

Dead Rabbits

Member
Location
'Merica
Anybody that milks big volumes of cows round here tend to be on RMS with genius I think. And tend to be Holstein HIHO herds. Some intensive AYR housed jerseys up the road I’m going to talk to. That just leaves grass rats
No problem, the jersey guy suddenly has a hankering for some grass rat calves.

It’s an odd game the semen one, I’m not a fan of the smaller guys getting ripped off though.
 

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
‘That’s a nice name’, surely no one does that 😂😂😂

Oh yes! Was usually the female side of the family though.

A semen rep told me he has had people picking bulls recently because they looked pretty, Swedish red,Norwegian red, fleckvieh and the like.
 

LTH

Member
Livestock Farmer
Oh yes! Was usually the female side of the family though.

A semen rep told me he has had people picking bulls recently because they looked pretty, Swedish red,Norwegian red, fleckvieh and the like.
Yea if the mother looks good on a photo if there’s two bulls I can’t decide on that both have all the other desired traits I’ll sway towards it, but not as bad as nice name or pretty
 

Jaffa Cakes

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Livestock Farmer
Location
NI
Let's face it, the Dutch and Americans do milky cows, the kiwis and the Irish do grazers and us brits do a half decent dual purpose breed
As for the French, yeah they do highly strung but pretty respectable beef breeds, they need to leave it at that and accept that dairy breeding isn't their forte

On that subject, if holstiens are tall, skinny, milky cows and jerseys are short skinny milky cows and fleckviehs are tall, kind of beefy, milky cows then is there such a thing as a short, kind of beefy, milky cow?
 

Sandpit Farm

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Derbyshire
You can literally set filters on Herd Genetic Reports on the AHDB site. It tells you what bulls satisfy your criteria. You can then run them on an inbreeding checker to check they aren’t too closely bred.

If you can narrow it down to 10-15 bulls, you can choose the bulls for yourself without any need for the rep.

I’ve used it loads if anyone wants to talk it through.
 

pine_guy

Member
Location
North Cumbria
You can literally set filters on Herd Genetic Reports on the AHDB site. It tells you what bulls satisfy your criteria. You can then run them on an inbreeding checker to check they aren’t too closely bred.

If you can narrow it down to 10-15 bulls, you can choose the bulls for yourself without any need for the rep.

I’ve used it loads if anyone wants to talk it through.
Just been having a play with this. it is a good tool.
 

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