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How are cows artificially inseminated?

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Basically, though, a cow is artificially inseminated by a person having one arm up the cow's rectum to hold the cervix through the colon wall and the other arm manipulating an AI gun with a semen straw in it through that cervix into the cow's uterus. Once the tip of the gun is in the cow's uterus, semen is deposited into her.

A cow can only be successfully AI'd if she was recently in heat. Otherwise she will not take nor get pregnant. Use of artificial hormones can help a producer synchronize several cow's heat cycles so that they can be AI'd all together in one day.

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