Jersey AI sources?

Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:15 pm by OldHorseman

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- Okay... Maudeuce is ready to be bred for her first calf, and we'd like to take advantage of Cornucopia while we can and have her bred AI with sexed Jersey bull semen to give us a second milk cow.

- Problem is that sexed Jersey semen seems to be the only product on Earth you can't just find and order online! WTF? Even with all the unconstitutional Federal meddling, you can order guns online, albeit having them shipped to a FFL. But for some reason they want to make me jump through all kinds of damned hoops to get bull semen shipped to my vet.

- Does anyone know a sane distributor?

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Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:57 pm by Jahn Terralumina

I have a Jersey. We had her bred to a Holstein down the street. We lucked out and didn't have to pull out a huge calf.

A friend recommended this site for our next breeding:

http://www.ag-link.com/

Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:22 pm by OldHorseman

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- We finally got a source. A couple straws of sexed Jersey semen were delivered to my vet today. But they appear to have SERIOUSLY screwed us on the shipping.

- Heifer should be in heat at the end of the month. We really want to get another heifer out of her to get a second cow on the ground before end 2012... We can always freshen with a local Angus bull if other options disappear after that.

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Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:26 pm by Jahn Terralumina

OldHorseman wrote:.

- We finally got a source. A couple straws of sexed Jersey semen were delivered to my vet today. But they appear to have SERIOUSLY screwed us on the shipping.

- Heifer should be in heat at the end of the month. We really want to get another heifer out of her to get a second cow on the ground before end 2012... We can always freshen with a local Angus bull if other options disappear after that.

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Perfect.
If your cool with drying her up early you could inseminate as soon as 7 months. I've heard arguments back and forth on this, but a good vet I met at a goat conference of all places, said 7 months is perfectly safe.

Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:15 am by OldHorseman

Jahn Terralumina wrote:If your cool with drying her up early you could inseminate as soon as 7 months. I've heard arguments back and forth on this, but a good vet I met at a goat conference of all places, said 7 months is perfectly safe.

- Why would I want to do that?

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Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:05 pm by Jahn Terralumina

OldHorseman wrote:
Jahn Terralumina wrote:If your cool with drying her up early you could inseminate as soon as 7 months. I've heard arguments back and forth on this, but a good vet I met at a goat conference of all places, said 7 months is perfectly safe.

- Why would I want to do that?

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If you inseminate at the end of the month you'll have a calf at the end of January. Milk 7 months and inseminate again in July/August.

Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:56 pm by OldHorseman

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- I think you misunderstood when I said I wanted a second cow on the ground before end '12...

- The calf born in January will be the second cow I meant. After that there's no big rush. Just needed to make sure the first calf is a heifer, rather than a bull, which is why we had to go through the extra trouble to get sexed semen. For future breedings, after we have two "permanent" cows on the place, we can go with unsexed semen or even a visit with a neighborhood Angus bull.

- Figure Maudeuce can get dried at 9 months and keep having early year calves. (Weather here is so screwy that January is just as good a month for babies as any.) Will hold-off on breeding her first calf a few extra months to stagger the dry-offs and peak productions to try and keep the sum milk flow a bit more constant.

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Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:19 pm by rbrgs

A friend of mine has a bull who's half Jersey and half Brahmin. He got the Brahmin semen through the University of Hawaii Agricultural Extension Service. It cost $15, IIRC, and they not only did all the paperwork to get the stuff from India, a guy from the Vet College even came up to his farm to do the deed.

Last time I saw Nandi, I got a lesson in how having a bull by the horns puts one on the horns of a dilemma (you won't get gored...as long as you hang on). Fortunately, he reached the end of his rope.

Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:06 pm by Jahn Terralumina

OldHorseman wrote:.

- I think you misunderstood when I said I wanted a second cow on the ground before end '12...

- The calf born in January will be the second cow I meant. After that there's no big rush. Just needed to make sure the first calf is a heifer, rather than a bull, which is why we had to go through the extra trouble to get sexed semen. For future breedings, after we have two "permanent" cows on the place, we can go with unsexed semen or even a visit with a neighborhood Angus bull.

- Figure Maudeuce can get dried at 9 months and keep having early year calves. (Weather here is so screwy that January is just as good a month for babies as any.) Will hold-off on breeding her first calf a few extra months to stagger the dry-offs and peak productions to try and keep the sum milk flow a bit more constant.

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That makes sense. We plan on doing the same with the staggering. I just wish we had gotten their milking order reversed. Penelope the Jersey/Holstein will obviously produce more milk and I'd prefer to milk her through the warm season and milk our pure Jersey in the winter. Should have thought about that before breeding. :roll:

Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:08 pm by Jahn Terralumina

rbrgs wrote:A friend of mine has a bull who's half Jersey and half Brahmin. He got the Brahmin semen through the University of Hawaii Agricultural Extension Service. It cost $15, IIRC, and they not only did all the paperwork to get the stuff from India, a guy from the Vet College even came up to his farm to do the deed.

Last time I saw Nandi, I got a lesson in how having a bull by the horns puts one on the horns of a dilemma (you won't get gored...as long as you hang on). Fortunately, he reached the end of his rope.

Unlike the females, Jersey bull can be assholes.

How big was he?

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