Head of the Herd - Life is hard, but the tools provided by 701x are helping provide critical information, to manage cattle in real time, not cow time.

This week, I received an alert on 710 - one of our foundation cows. It was a heat alert which wasn’t what I wanted to see on an 8 year old cow who was preg checked months ago and on pasture 50 miles away.

I then started unpacking the information and a light came on…701x just saved me a great deal of pain and agony of finding out I had an open cow early not late. What to do...

Well, we had a handful of options, but I preach practicality to my children and anyone else who will listen:

1. Nothing we can do about it now, so enjoy Thanksgiving. 

2. We’ll blood test the female to double check and then prepare to flush her. 

3. We now have a projected heat date and will let the system tell us if she has another heat in 21 days. 

4. We’ll be able to harvest some eggs, from a proven cow who’s been very fertile in the past with large flushes and very “sticky” eggs when implanting in recipients. 

5. We’ll then plan our ET strategy based on our updated embryo inventory. 

6. Life is hard, but the tools provided by 701x are helping provide critical information, to manage cattle in real time, not cow time. 

Charge On! 

Sh