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Posted in Bulls , Cattle Sale Listings , Farm Life , Replacement HeifersA blog update is way past due, and for that I apologize to our regular followers. To bring you up to speed on what is going on; we are basically finished calving, the last of the cows are being sorted into their respective breeding groups and we hope to have the bulls out with the cows by the end of the week. The heifers were AI bred from June 26 - 29. This year we bred 1300 heifers and 25 cows. We changed our program up a little, away from the MGA feed additive program to the CIDR implant program for estrus suppression, with hopes of increased conception rates. Even though the CIDR program is about 10x the cost of MGA, the extra control and the elimination of some intake variance should mean that we have more pregnancies on the initial breeding round. We stuck to the same high-profile bulls as last year. The black heifers were bred to SAV Final Answer and the red heifers were bred to Feddes Big Sky. So we are excited to see how the conception rates to AI turn out