Breeding Season

Well its that time of year again. Keeping a sharp eye on the cows for heats and keeping good paperwork, dates, and data for breeding. We still have one cow to calve in July(Hereford) and one cow (Sassy) isnt far enough post calving to setup on shots and implant a CIDR in for a heat to breed on. Our protocol is a 7 Day Co-Synch with CIDR. It works like this: Day 1: Give one shot of GNRH(we use 2cc) intramuscular.
Implant the CIDR.
Day 8: Give one shot of Lutalyse(we use 5cc) intramuscular.
Pull CIDR.
Day 11(60-72 hrs. later): Breed. Give 2cc shot of GNRH.

So far we've bred to Lagrand Reload 80P ET, H Excel 8051 ET, and DB Hard Drive ET for a full sib to the Hard Drive heifer we have this year. We were really impressed with the way this mating turned out so we bred back the same way!!!

We will be putting in embryos hopefully within the next two weeks. More details coming soon!!!