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Bull fertility test

PANADOL · 2011-02-14 23:42:28

i recently purchased a young charlois bull in a private sale so their were no gaurantees etc but money was small anyway just wondering does anybody know how you can test your bull for fertility apart from watching ur cows on their cycles or getting them scanned and how long do you have to wait from day of bulling to when…

14-02-2011 11:42pm

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PANADOL

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i recently purchased a young charlois bull in a private sale so their were no gaurantees etc but money was small anyway just wondering does anybody know how you can test your bull for fertility apart from watching ur cows on their cycles or getting them scanned and how long do you have to wait from day of bulling to when this would show up on a scan as a pregnancy?

Thanks

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#2 14-02-2011 11:54pm

blue5000

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Earliest you can scan is about 30 days. Vets should be able to test bull for fertility.

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#3 15-02-2011 11:38am

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pg will do the bull himself afaik , they did one for us a few years ago , a limo that was firing blanks

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#4 15-02-2011 12:55pm

reilig

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http://www.moreway.ie/cowpreg.html

Could be useful to you.

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#5 15-02-2011 1:00pm

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whelan1 wrote: »

pg will do the bull himself afaik , they did one for us a few years ago , a limo that was firing blanks

how did they do that whelan, the ejaculator was it?

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#6 15-02-2011 1:09pm

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its a good few years ago , we put a cow in front of him in the ctush and when he jumped-eventually- they caught the semen

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