Reply To: AI

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BigDave
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    Just looking at the title of this thread and like most, if not all farmers would, thought the OP was talking about Artificial Insemination (AI).

    I was going to offer him some straws of pedigree Lincoln Red, White Peak or Dairy Holstein-Friesian bull’s semen! Although I don’t know what he would do with them  unless he has some bulling cows or heifers to inseminate!

    I wrote my MSc dissertation (later published) on the subject of the use of AI and its resultant effects on genetic continuity of bloodlines/progeny in pedigree cattle breeding  when I was employed in the lab at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Fisheries (later DEFRA). I later wrote a  further paper on the subject of AI usage with pre-sexed bull semen in Stabiliser cattle and resultant bloodline effects in pedigree Hereford, Angus, Simmental and Gelbvieh beef suckler herds.

    None of this so called ‘artificial intelligence’ round here please!