bacon - 1/19/2025 21:01
I think you are beating yourself up too much. Ve been at this for over 30 years. I’ve never been to a breed up better than 8-10%. Switched to 50 days after being 60 day breeding. I think we were at 14% this year. 2nd and 3rd calves being the biggest culprit.
That kind of makes more sense. In my case we used to be lower open % and I’m still at 70 days because I can’t go lower and keep numbers. 2nd and 3rd calves were some opens but majority were middle aged which is weird. | 
Higher open rates than makes sense to me
