Bull Breeding Soundness Exams - Mizzou Repro

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Everyone is looking to cut costs in their cow-calf operation, but you don’t want to skimp on bull breeding soundness examinations. A breeding soundness exam is a minimal investment to make sure a bull is up to the task this breeding season. Dr. Mac Wilt and Dr. Mindy Hurt of the Paris Veterinary Clinic volunteered to give us a thorough and professional overview of a breeding soundness examination from start to finish. We strongly suggest you work with your own veterinarian to have a breeding soundness exam performed on every bull you turn out, every breeding season. No one wants to have a bull turn up infertile, but remember: it is much better finding out before the breeding season starts than finding out at preg check…
For more information, see University of Missouri Extension Publication G2011 Determining Reproductive Fertility of Herd Bulls, available at: extension.miss...
Video by Dr. Jordan Thomas, Beef Reproduction Extension Specialist from the University of Missouri's Division of Animal Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

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16 сен 2024

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@pravindeshpande3404 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for Best Information.

@FarmandRanchHacks 3 года назад

Any breeding soundness trends your seeing this spring after that hard Midwestern freeze?

@MizzouRepro 3 года назад

A good question. We speculated we might see a drop on the percentage of bulls passing bull breeding soundness exams in some of our MU Extension organized events. However, results were fairly typical in comparison to previous years, with about 9 out of 10 bulls passing on average. Providing windbreaks (whether man-made or natural features like cedar trees) and a dry place to lay (e.g. some straw or cornstalk bedding) can sure help in limiting frostbite issues and overall cold stress on bulls.

@killerkane1957 3 года назад

We saw many issues after the storms. Substantial shifts in fertility and semen production. But we are not in the Midwest. We are in Texas. The extreme weather here was unprecedented and caused operations to shut down for a week. The issues were of course transient in nature. We store over 7 million doses of frozen semen. We harvest and evaluate semen daily. Since 1954.