Jazz was first AIed back in June. I think we may have missed one or two heat cycles to start off with in May, so I was thankful to have caught it in June so we'd at least have a March calf. She has since had 2 more cycles and has been AIed twice more. Last night and this morning she took two straws to try and get the timing down as she hasn't been taking. Last night's straw was Waukaru Gold Mine 2109, a Shorthorn bull, the tech's last straw of his meager Shorthorn bull options. This morning we used a club calf bull, Dual Focus, a black SimAngus son of Angus bull, In Focus {since we were double breeding, I wanted to breed to something black so that we could tell for sure who the sire is at calving}. So, we could have a purebred calf or a club calf if she takes this time. We left it interesting. Unfortunately, we are now looking at calving not being until the first days of May.
We have now dropped $120 into breeding expenses for one cow! I feel the timing of breeding has been too late as we were catching her in heat in the evening but the tech wasn't able to come out until 11 am both times before. This time she was in heat in the morning and we bred her at 8 pm and 9:30 am, so hopefully this time we covered it.
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