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<blockquote data-quote="The Ruminant" data-source="post: 7426025" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>I worked on a dairy farm many years ago and went on an AI course. I was there for another year and probably served only 60 or 70 animals in that time, then left and moved into a different role where I didn’t have to do any AI. It was ten years later before a friend asked me to AI his 3 suckler cows, I served each of them just once and all three held! This is a long way of saying that, in my experience, once you know how to AI, you don’t lose it, especially year to year. (I did have to look up how to defrost the straws though, as I couldn’t remember that part!).</p><p></p><p>It depends why you want to AI, but if they were my animals I’d AI for the first cycle, to introduce some new blood, then use sweeper bulls to mop up any that haven’t held.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Ruminant, post: 7426025, member: 487"] I worked on a dairy farm many years ago and went on an AI course. I was there for another year and probably served only 60 or 70 animals in that time, then left and moved into a different role where I didn’t have to do any AI. It was ten years later before a friend asked me to AI his 3 suckler cows, I served each of them just once and all three held! This is a long way of saying that, in my experience, once you know how to AI, you don’t lose it, especially year to year. (I did have to look up how to defrost the straws though, as I couldn’t remember that part!). It depends why you want to AI, but if they were my animals I’d AI for the first cycle, to introduce some new blood, then use sweeper bulls to mop up any that haven’t held. [/QUOTE]
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