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Reasons for using AI in dairy cattle: 1. Prevents spread of disease between bull and cow/heifer (sexually transmitted disease) 2. Safety. This is one of the biggest reasons why. Bulls are large dangerous animals that kill farmers each year. 3. Genetic improvement. Producing better offspring. 4. Synchronizing breeding Reasons for using AI in dairy cattle: 1. Prevents spread of disease between bull and cow/heifer (sexually transmitted disease) 2. Safety. This is one of the biggest reasons why. Bulls are large dangerous animals that kill farmers each year. 3. Genetic improvement. Producing better offspring. 4. Synchronizing breeding
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∙ 13y agoAI is much more common in dairy cattle than beef cattle because of one primary reason: Dangerous Bulls. Dairy bulls are many times more nuttier, dangerous and nasty than most beef bulls, and cause more injuries and deaths per year than beef bulls do. They are very dangerous to handle, and as far as human safety is concerned, not worth a person's life to keep around.
AI is also inexpensive because only a handful of sires can be used to breed 10,000 cows or more at a time. In natural service, a bull can service up to 50 females in a breeding season. Top sires that are too expensive to buy and to keep around can be semen collected so that many females of the same breed can be bred from as near as 100 miles away to as far as 100,000 miles away. Semen can be stored for many years, and can still be used several years after a sire has died.
AI is also used in beef cattle, especially with those that have small herds and do not have the time, energy, expenses nor expertise to handle/raise/use a herd bull.
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How long after AI can a dairy cow get pregnant?
AI is a method for a dairy cow to get pregnant. She should catch (or get bred) within a day or two after being AI'd.
What is artificial insemination in cattle?
AI is great because dairy farmers have less to worry about if they have to handle dairy bulls. Dairy bulls are VERY dangerous and can turn unexpectedly on anything that moves and put it in the ground. AI eliminates the constant use of these mad creatures and allows for more choice of what semen from which bull to breed what cow. AI thus allows a more flexible way of using semen from several different bulls on one or two cows without having to rent or buy the actual bulls.
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What is the economic importance of AI in cattle?
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When is a dairy cow artifitial inseminated before the milking period of 10 months end?
A cow should be artificially inseminated (AI) an average of two to three months after giving birth, or when she starts showing signs of normal estrus which could be as late as four or even five months post-partum. Ideally it should be in the two to four month period, for a dairy cow, for her to rest (pregnancy-wise) before getting settled again.
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Sixty to seventy percent success rate, primarily. Of course this depends on the experience of the AI tech.
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