This is worth thinking about when you are being
pressured to turn 100% of your breeding over to one AI stud and its computer
mating specialists. There are some
competitive alternatives that keep you in control of your breeding program.
Genetic selection is a powerful tool IF you focus
selection on real needs in your herd, not the various “one size fits all”
assumptions that have turned genetics into another commodity you buy at the
lowest bid price. Why are so many
dairymen unwilling to pay more than a token price for AI breeding? Because they are not seeing results they
can measure in anything beyond the mediocre lifetime production, high health
costs and expensive reproduction of the
average commercial dairy cow.
In earlier days, expansion dairymen used to say “you
can’t milk a registration paper”.
Today, many dairymen are starting to also say “you can’t milk an index
rank on paper”.
If your goal is to breed “real cows” from the cows
you have, CALL US.
Mich Livestock Service, Inc ph (800) 359-1693 “the Complete Cow program”
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