Post by elia on Sept 18, 2014 23:46:21 GMT -5
We AI'ed Sharlotte on July 1st. She came back in heat on July 26th, it looked like, sort of, so we did a milk test in August and she was still open. Since then her heats have been silent. I took her to the vet yesterday and had her palpated. The vet said she has a CL and we could give her a shot of Lutalyse this weekend and AI her again next Tuesday, 72 hours after the shot, and then give the other shot to encourage the ovulation.
It would be nice, I guess (don't know) to coordinate the Lutalyse with when she would be coming in heat anyway, but with the silent heats, I don't know exactly when her next heat should be. It used to be easy to track them, twenty days almost every time, and obvious. Since the breeding, not so much, and the one right after the breeding was 25 days, so I don't know how many days to count. Still, my best guess is that she would come back in heat sometime next week anyway, but who knows what day.
I tweaked the supplements in her feed to give her extra minerals and vitamins, but I just started this extra stuff today, so it will have only five days to work, which probably isn't enough to make any difference. (She has a whole free-choice mineral bar, so this is just insurance.) Do you think that the "silent heat" means she is lacking something in her diet and so is having weaker heats?
Does it seem a good plan to go ahead with this? Or should I wait another whole cycle and give the extra nutrition time to take hold, and wait for her to show a strong heat and then do another AI?
Here's what's funny: I expressed frustration to my vet about getting the AI to take, and he told me that he had just had a bull delivered to his place for his three cows, because he couldn't be bothered with all the fuss of AI. And this guy is a reproductive specialist... a really good reproductive specialist. Whew!
It would be nice, I guess (don't know) to coordinate the Lutalyse with when she would be coming in heat anyway, but with the silent heats, I don't know exactly when her next heat should be. It used to be easy to track them, twenty days almost every time, and obvious. Since the breeding, not so much, and the one right after the breeding was 25 days, so I don't know how many days to count. Still, my best guess is that she would come back in heat sometime next week anyway, but who knows what day.
I tweaked the supplements in her feed to give her extra minerals and vitamins, but I just started this extra stuff today, so it will have only five days to work, which probably isn't enough to make any difference. (She has a whole free-choice mineral bar, so this is just insurance.) Do you think that the "silent heat" means she is lacking something in her diet and so is having weaker heats?
Does it seem a good plan to go ahead with this? Or should I wait another whole cycle and give the extra nutrition time to take hold, and wait for her to show a strong heat and then do another AI?
Here's what's funny: I expressed frustration to my vet about getting the AI to take, and he told me that he had just had a bull delivered to his place for his three cows, because he couldn't be bothered with all the fuss of AI. And this guy is a reproductive specialist... a really good reproductive specialist. Whew!