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Sexed semen in block calving herds
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 6568987" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>something we all have to look at, where arla goes, others will follow. Sexed semen on it's own, will not sort the calf job out. But we have a mainly spring calving herd, and we have thought of using sexed on those cows that are not quite in the block, ie dec/jan, and then if conception rates are down, we won't lose time, the other way is to start serving select cows with sexed a week/10 days earlier.</p><p>Hopefully, sexed semen will keep improving until conception rates are better, or, as someone posted on here, the use of embryo's, this will give us decent beef calves, irrelevant to the breed of cow. In theory these could replace suckler cows, and therefore reduce our carbon footprint !!!!!! The more I think on this, the better it seems. Let's hope technique improves, and costs come down, as this could solve a huge problem for the beef side. The only other suggestion I have seen, is the use of drugs, to keep cows milking for, say, 2 years, but I can only imagine the public response to that !!!!!!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 6568987, member: 86168"] something we all have to look at, where arla goes, others will follow. Sexed semen on it's own, will not sort the calf job out. But we have a mainly spring calving herd, and we have thought of using sexed on those cows that are not quite in the block, ie dec/jan, and then if conception rates are down, we won't lose time, the other way is to start serving select cows with sexed a week/10 days earlier. Hopefully, sexed semen will keep improving until conception rates are better, or, as someone posted on here, the use of embryo's, this will give us decent beef calves, irrelevant to the breed of cow. In theory these could replace suckler cows, and therefore reduce our carbon footprint !!!!!! The more I think on this, the better it seems. Let's hope technique improves, and costs come down, as this could solve a huge problem for the beef side. The only other suggestion I have seen, is the use of drugs, to keep cows milking for, say, 2 years, but I can only imagine the public response to that !!!!!!!!! [/QUOTE]
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