[Faye.Lear]

What's the process and can this be done at anytime?

I understand it's two visits from the vet... But that's about all I remember without getting confused! 

[Sbom]

The vet will come and jab them to bring them into season which takes about three day and then they can be ai'd

[waterbuffalofarmer]

Yes sbom is correct. I would talk to the vet to get all the details/procedure and process and times to be clear from every angle. Usually with us its 3 out of 5 but I am not sure what it would be with cattle.

[daveh]

Due to the lack of a suitable local bull I used AI for the first time a couple of months ago.

I went to see my vet who let me have a bottle of Genestran. The cattle were injected once and then again eleven days later (or was it 11, memory going, would need to check) to synchronise their seasons. If you are confident to inject your cattle then attendance from the vet should not be necessary. The AI lady was booked and she inseminated them. The cows are due to be pregnancy tested in about a month's time but from observation my guess is that 3 out of the 4 are pregnant.

Regards, Dave

[farmers wife]

sponging is done here then injecting.  Its a lot of faff.  Sadly its as low as 30%.  Problems come then if you have the heifers running with bull to clear up makes syn terrible.  Also means you will be battling to get them back in calf the following year.  Not convinced the whole process works.  All cattle out of synch should be removed and sold.

[JEP]

just had are 2 done
vet came out did sponging & inject
[/size]we injected 7 days later & removed [/color][/size]sponging[/color]
[/size]vet said to remove [/color][/size]sponging & inject at about same time to be inseminated 3 days latter[/color]
[/size]3 days latter inseminated[/color]

[SallyintNorth]

Can't make sense out of that, [member=23296]JEP[/member].  Please edit formatting