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[Teach97]

My first degree was in Animal Science I took the production Industry option as well....about the same thing at A&M sound like. AI really isn't that hard in many species. Hogs are super easy, fowl ain't bad, cattle can be but aren't horrid....never done it with goats...talk to Doc about that!

the embryo transfer i hear can be a little bit harder. never done any of it.

sounds like you have some plans! if you get in there and have any interst in the hog industry holler...I have a few connections! Know some ol' OSU grads in good spots that would help out as well. Never hurts to network...

 

[donnie]

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no i bought pelicans flock today

 

[provocativename]

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OMG.....Surely they won't stay in business long?! I'm not planning to start offering anything to anyone but family/as good as for the first 3-5 years. Since I wouldn't trust my goats to anyone with less experience...then I start a mobile business and build up to having my own location.

And hopefully my goats will be worth that by then

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[Teach97]

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how you AI a goat? You can't get an arm in there? can you? and it has gotta be more cowish than pigish...what about the little spray around thingy....now i am curious...crud... i will look it up tomorrow...I gotta get to bed

 

[provocativename]

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Definitely true, that's part of why I really want to get an internship...networking plus there is the money and great experience. Hogs wouldn't be my first choice....I only have experience raising feeder hogs....but I wouldn't turn it down. As long as it's Livestock oriented I'm interested in at least trying it out,

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[Doc Henry]

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how you AI a goat? You can't get an arm in there? can you? and it has gotta be more cowish than pigish...what about the little spray around thingy....now i am curious...crud... i will look it up tomorrow...I gotta get to bed

You gotta make a hole in the side...not the midline as recently displayed by said yahoo on a $10,000 doe.... also very important to scrub area first and keep area sterile during procedure or goats will die.... also demonstrated. And yes he is still in buisness, Texas has some dumb laws about livestock and anyone can practice medicine on them regardless of how intelligent they are.

 

[provocativename]

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how you AI a goat? You can't get an arm in there? can you? and it has gotta be more cowish than pigish...what about the little spray around thingy....now i am curious...crud... i will look it up tomorrow...I gotta get to bed

You have a light and a speculum, and an AI gun with a long tip, and you have to try and find the mouth for the cervix, and then get it past the rings, or your % of pregnancies is really low. And it all has to be done slowly and smoothly since they aren't that big. (I've read/talked to folks but never done it)


"little spray around thingy" now you have me curious.....never read about hog AI......

 

[provocativename]

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how you AI a goat? You can't get an arm in there? can you? and it has gotta be more cowish than pigish...what about the little spray around thingy....now i am curious...crud... i will look it up tomorrow...I gotta get to bed

You gotta make a hole in the side...not the midline as recently displayed by said yahoo on a $10,000 doe.... also very important to scrub area first and keep area sterile during procedure or goats will die.... also demonstrated. And yes he is still in buisness, Texas has some dumb laws about livestock and anyone can practice medicine on them regardless of how intelligent they are.

That makes me sick....sure it did the owner too. But surely no one brings him animals... a bad reputation should kill his business faster than anything. According to what I've read/been told for AI you shouldn't HAVE to cut on the doe at all....ET and Flushing yes (though apparently you don't in horses)...AI no.

 

[Doc Henry]

yes i was speaking of a flushing, Don't know about the "spray around thingy" that beats me now i'm interested. I personally haven't done a whole lot of goat AI. I just have to clean up after someone has botched it. We do more equine than anything and rarely do we have to do any actual AI we just ultrasound and say when to baste that turkey. Lots of meat goat stuff going on around here though with alot of high end goats.

 

[sixshooter60]

Teach that would be the Wormy Dog.. of course thats just what i have heard..me myself would never go inside a ah think its called a bar..