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<blockquote data-quote="Jdunn55" data-source="post: 7885724" data-attributes="member: 81760"><p>90%+ ai but anything that proves to be a pain to get incalf gets to go on a date with the bull, next year the bull will go in with them for the last 3 weeks of service (wouldn't have worked this year as had cows calving all year round but want to block calve properly after next year)</p><p></p><p>Last 3 months I've been serving problem cows and then autumn calved heifers, the vet who pd'd any of the cows due to calve in the autumn got the dates all wrong and none of them were dry for more than a week (meant to calve in October but ended up calving in august) which led to massive problems (dirty, mastitis, milk fever, retained afterbirth etc) which has affected their fertility, I also did a cidr synch program with a lot of them to try and get the front of the block fairly tight which worked well but not as good a conception rate as if they were ai'ed to natural heats - probably won't do again with cows tbh</p><p>Also had a group of 6-10 spring 2021 or autumn 2020 calved cows that I was really struggling to get in-calf so gave in and got the vet to check them out and they were all either cystic or dirty - lesson learned there, from next year anything that doesn't get in-calf to first service will be checked to make sure they aren't cystic or dirty etc, wish I did it sooner this year <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦♂️" title="Man facepalming :man_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f926-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_facepalming:" /> as soon as they were cleaned up or had a cidr to sort them out they got in-calf to either first or second service (all in-calf now!) Which is good but also frustrating as if I'd done it a few months prior they would still be in the spring block...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jdunn55, post: 7885724, member: 81760"] 90%+ ai but anything that proves to be a pain to get incalf gets to go on a date with the bull, next year the bull will go in with them for the last 3 weeks of service (wouldn't have worked this year as had cows calving all year round but want to block calve properly after next year) Last 3 months I've been serving problem cows and then autumn calved heifers, the vet who pd'd any of the cows due to calve in the autumn got the dates all wrong and none of them were dry for more than a week (meant to calve in October but ended up calving in august) which led to massive problems (dirty, mastitis, milk fever, retained afterbirth etc) which has affected their fertility, I also did a cidr synch program with a lot of them to try and get the front of the block fairly tight which worked well but not as good a conception rate as if they were ai'ed to natural heats - probably won't do again with cows tbh Also had a group of 6-10 spring 2021 or autumn 2020 calved cows that I was really struggling to get in-calf so gave in and got the vet to check them out and they were all either cystic or dirty - lesson learned there, from next year anything that doesn't get in-calf to first service will be checked to make sure they aren't cystic or dirty etc, wish I did it sooner this year 🤦♂️ as soon as they were cleaned up or had a cidr to sort them out they got in-calf to either first or second service (all in-calf now!) Which is good but also frustrating as if I'd done it a few months prior they would still be in the spring block... [/QUOTE]
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