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Let me get this straight -- You said you FLUSHED the cow "" 40 "" days after having a calf?? In order to do this -- your cow had to have a heat LESS than 20 days later, that is called day -0-. Day 11 is the normal start date of shots, day 16 is supered heat date, and day 23 is flush day. Now...

Hey Brent -- not sure if you are concerned for my health or ??? hehehehe Seriously, after this many years of baby sitting these donor cows, and breeding all hours of the night, ithas become a routine to stay up late. Waiting on one more calf gives me another excuse, even though we rairly get...

It is a very rare cow -- indeed -- that can be overstimulated and made to produce 40-50-even 60 eggs and NOT be damaged doing it. In fact, it has always been my goal here to never try for large numbers, I am much happier to get a dozen from a good cow than I ever would be going for 30 plus. I...

If your cow had a very soft and mushy ovary on flush day, and your total production for the day was 1 egg, then it came from the other side of the uterus. The soft ovary is a real RED flag. Even with your prior 40 mg (16 ml) dosage of Folitropin, some cows are prone to blow out (over respond)...

I used him on only one cow last year, wish I had used him on every one! Cow is a Chi-Maine-Sim -- a hairy best of a cow too -- and she had me the best hfr calf I have had in a LONG LONG time. A real rippin good one. A tick over 80 lbs, solid black from a chromed cow, and HAIRY. I tend to get...

I am only going to post ONE MORE TIME on this subject, as I have talked about for years and years. Clostridium Perfringens types C and D promarily, although there are others, is DEADLY It is in the ground every where, it is a bug in laymen terms that will be injested, then will start to...

JBZ --- you wouldn't happen to have any lake side property in AZ for sale do you?? I would bet there'd be some buyers here on SP -- for certain at least you'd get a request for info from BCCC !! hehehehe (clapping) Terry

Brent, I always suspected that you were a softy -- now I am sure!!! hehehehe (clapping) I have been one of those late night owls all my life any way, but we do things a tad different here. I like to feed the cows at the bunk about a half hour before dark, they come to eat, eat thier fill, go...

I wasn't sold on this new way of drafting, 2 by 2. There are only 2 races all year where this type of raicing will happen, and Daytona is an Icon. Seemed to me there were more wrecks too. Just wasn't the same as before to me any way. Good to see that kid win, he has more confidence at 20 than...

Let me just say I very rarely -- VERY -- ever dwell on these kinds of e-mails we all seem to get. This one, coming from a long time family friend, kind of stopped me in mid-stride and made me think of all the past years. Several members here and other places came to mind, and at the risk of...

Hey Gidget -- here is my analogy of what we all seem to have to go thru in life, and especially these days of the so called NEED to be Politicly Correct and all of that. When I was 4 years old up in SE MInnesota, dad made a living milking 40 head of registered Jersey's BY HAND, I remember the...

Way to go pard -- this is what we hope for when our kids are or were young -- what a great day.    (clapping) I still remember our son Nate when he was just about a week past 8 years old, he had his first steer that year and we called him Dufus -- due to his extreme gentleness (Plus he was...

Payback calved pretty small -- the one good thing about him as far as my experience went. He is one of the THREE top players for the PHA gene, he is one of the three that started it all it seems. He will shorten stature -- reduce frame score. He WILL straighten the hind legs, some times to...

I happen to know Jim personally, have gone to several of his past cattle and horse sales during the last 20 odd years, and this is NOT like the man I know. Jim is an absolute master at breeding selected blood lines to selected blood lines in the horse world. I have several of his past catalogs...

Kind of caught me off gaurd here Darkside -- but thank you for the compliment. She is a pleasure to have, as all ex-show hfrs are -- she has her own little world she lives in!! hehehehe I think that the clubby world will see a whole new venture before this is over -- I am looking forward to...

Absolutely -- Brown Swiss are the dairy end of the gene pool, and the Braunvieh are the meatier end, but still have tremendous milking anility. Same as the Holstiens and the old Friesians, same gene pool but a different end product. As far as this steer goes, if he were mine today, I would...

Ask around for a guy in Fuita Co. Never met him but know he is still there from when I had contact back in the early 90's. Heard he has some contacts for recips too -- heck, some of my own embryos cvollected here will be over there I hear! Terry

I currently have a couple of Purebred Braunvieh here now as donors, and I love em. They are tremendous cows, and are making some VERY good crossbred cattle. Your steer, coming from a BU/SM cow and a bull I just can't remember -- he seems ot have gotten some pretty straight legged genetics from...

Inducement meaning given a shot to bring them back into heat soon. This is usually done just to prevent the possibility of a pregnancy if any embryos are missed. I prefer to infuse them with Bio-Mycin and let them cycle on thier own, we have never had a cow stay pregnant this way, plus it...

You are asking some verygood questions on this topic -- I have seen all the good bad and ugly over the years. First, if a donor is done correctly and not blowed out and pushed every 35 days like some do -- they will breed back OK. If, however, they are overdosed and made to work every 6 weeks...