Breeding patterns

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Dear Prabhu's,

 

I have just made a comparison of gender of calf in relationship to

Artificial Insemination or real bull. The results are as follows:

 

Artificial insemination. 9 bulls 10 cows out of 19 inseminations

 

Real Bull. 4 cows 6 bulls out of 10 impregnations. Of the last 7 calves born

from our own young bulls only one has been a cow. Of the 10 impregnations 3

of them were in cows that we bought already pregnant and they all had cows.

 

Does anyone have any further experience to share with us on this point.

 

I was wondering if the large percentage of bulls over cows when we use one

of our young bulls to impregnate (before we castrate at 1 year) is a result

of a bull giving all its passion to one cow. The calves born from cows

impregnated before we bought them were from large herds and thus the bull

had many cows to assist.

 

It is interesting because in a letter from Srila Prabhupada he mentions

about Artificial insemination in that we should use a real bull because when

the male semen is stronger the offspring will be a bull. From this we can

gauge the ideal scenario of wanting bull calves more than cow calves.

 

Does any one esle have experience of using bulls on low numbers of cows and

what the gender of the offsping were?

 

ys syam