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Best Heat Detection Methods

  • 05-04-2016 7:29pm
    #1
    GiantPencil
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    Having problems getting cows back in calf, spotting them bulling is proving difficult seeing as I work part time and only see them morning & evening.

    What are the best methods ye have used for heat detection? I've never used the heat patches but am considering it. Is a teaser bull the best bet?


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  • #2
    49801
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    GiantPencil wrote: »
    Having problems getting cows back in calf, spotting them bulling is proving difficult seeing as I work part time and only see them morning & evening.

    What are the best methods ye have used for heat detection? I've never used the heat patches but am considering it. Is a teaser bull the best bet?

    Scratch cards work well. Switch to paint after first ins emendation. Leave stock bulls out after 6 weeks of AI to mop up


  • #3
    Milked out
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    Tail paint works as well as any I find. A young teaser is best bet but they can get tired if put in too early with too many, and getting used to their timing as well. Observation is key I find. Can you check em before and after work? Edit to add are they close enough to check before dark as well without upsetting them. Early morning they say is best time for activity


  • #4
    bogman_bass
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    eyeball Mk1 is the best of the lot. Anything else is just a suplement


  • #5
    J.O. Farmer
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    eyeball Mk1 is the best of the lot. Anything else is just a suplement

    Even better is a stock bull who has all day to look at them but in the absence of that eyeball Mk1 is often helped by supplements.


  • #6
    patsy_mccabe
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    Teaser bull with Chain-ball is generally considered the best.


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  • #7
    Parishlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Have a yearling bullock left in with a few heifers that I want to AI. He had one picked out last night so he will do the job. Might also use the patches.
    Don't want to AIo her until later this month or in May. Is it roughly 21 days again she should be back bulling?


  • #8
    Milked out
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    Parishlad wrote: »
    Have a yearling bullock left in with a few heifers that I want to AI. He had one picked out last night so he will do the job. Might also use the patches.
    Don't want to AIo her until later this month or in May. Is it roughly 21 days again she should be back bulling?

    Yeah can be 18 to 24 days


  • #9
    Parishlad
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    Milked out wrote: »
    Yeah can be 18 to 24 days

    Cheers. Only got her last week so happy that she was clearly in standing heat! I'll keep my eye on her again so in a few weeks.


  • #10
    kowtow
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    What are teaser bulls like temperament wise? Easier to handle than their entire mates? Would they get bolder as they get older?

    Would a free martin do the job instead?


  • #11
    Milked out
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    kowtow wrote: »
    What are teaser bulls like temperament wise? Easier to handle than their entire mates? Would they get bolder as they get older?

    Would a free martin do the job instead?

    They would be the same as a regular bull. They are more active when younger anyway so the advice is to keep an early born bull calf every year or second year If you want to chance it and replace them as needed. Had one last year that was 3 and a half and he was happy with the one jump so not as helpful as a younger fella who may follow the cow around more. I found putting him in with dry cows when he was a yearling put a bit of manners on him as opposed to leaving him with heifers where he would have been the big one of the group but he may have just been quiet anyway


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