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Eastern NE KS | Seems if there is a way to do something wrong, I'll eventually do it. What do you think the outcome will be?
This is my 15th spring to synchronize my virgin heifers and the AI to a sire. Same protocol over the years, requires 3 trips through the chute. Numbers are small ranging from 12-22 head per year.
You'd think I would have things down pat, I suppose I was thinking that too and lost my focus. I inadvertently placed 2 CIDRs into one heifer. Both CIDRs were half used, 7 days used last year.
At the chute, I wondered why I had placed all my old CIDRs and only completed 11 heifers, it should have been 12. But I shrugged and finished the remaining girls with new CIDRs.
After 7 days I pulled CIDRs and as normal, counted them finding 16. (As yet I didn't know that I placed 17 CIDRs into 16 head). Each heifer was injected with a dose of Estrumate.
54 hours later my neighbor and I were breeding them and halfway through the group, the neighbor said there is something really weird here. I feel something like a bone. Oh, it's a CIDR! Doug pull it out, which I did.
We went ahead and proceeded with the normal AI breeding process plus hormone shot.
So place your bets, will she settle to the ai sire? Does she even have a chance? | |
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Botched TAI process
