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improve response to synchronization protocols. “We know Bos indicus cattle are very sensitive to progesterone, so what you have to do with these animals is get their progesterone level down.” That’s accomplished by using a CIDR (controlled internal drug release) as the only source of progesterone. Pohler then recommended using a heat detection patch on the back of the female to help indicate which females are in heat, then AI’ing the ones in estrus. Those not in estrus, he said, should either be AI’ed and given a dose of GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone) at the same time, or simply be turned out to let the clean-up bulls handle it. “The ability to move your herd forward from that estrus synchronization is going to be huge,” Pohler said. Pohler supports this protocol for both seedstock and commercial producers. “Don’t discount using estrus synchronization with natural service,” he reiterated. “I think that’s one of the biggest underutilized approaches in the commercial cow- calf industry.” The panelists agreed that the beef industry is changing faster than ever before and the paradigm of change, Brown explained, says that technology will never move this slowly again.

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