AI'd today

[cjb]

Violet was hollering at the top of her lungs last night and tried to mount her calf. She broke the electric fence this morning and was standing by the barn, waiting to be milked. Yep, she was ready.

I called the AI tech and was really lucky to find that he was ten minutes away, just finishing up at a local dairy. Used "Lexington" semen - we'll see what we get in August.

Her heifer is almost 6 months so it was definitely time.

[DianeWV]

Good job. I hope she settles for you. Have you ever had the opportunity/option to use sexed semen? Keeping fingers crossed that all goes well.

[springvalley]

They say you should only use sexed semen on virgin heifers, but I do know one guy that trys it on cows. I have had some guys say it doesn`t work that great for the price difference. I bought a bull this spring when 4 cows came up open after AI. All the cows and four heifers are bred now , so Mr. bull will be leaving on Sunday to go to the neighbors. Thanks Marc.

[cjb]

I can pay extra for sexed semen but, as Marc said, they don't recommend for cows that have delivered because there is, evidently, far less active sperm and cows that have delivered previously have too large of a ..... is it Cervix? Not sure - but evidently too much space in there for the little buggers to hit the target.

I was tempted anyway because this cow settles so easily but she's getting older so you never know.