amlkman
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Split Embryo
Had a recip abort at 7 mos. The wierd thing is there were twin heifers. The egg must have split. Has anyone seen this?
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9/4/2004, 1:23
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IndiesViewGD
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Re: Split Embryo
Haven't seen it but have heard of it. Morrill's have two cows from this same thing, check them out at http://www.morrillfarmdairy.com/brdgfrm.htm
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9/4/2004, 1:48
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buckeyebreeder
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Re: Split Embryo
I had heard that lower quality eggs like lower quality twos, and threes do this more often. My neighbor was the dumping ground for alot of frozen #3's from Select Embryos. He had two times where the egg split. Twin Heifers of course, both times.
I will ask my ET vet about this next week when he is in.
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9/4/2004, 2:49
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amlkman
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Re: Split Embryo
They were #2 that came with the a cow that I got at the Summer event. Realy sucks. If they would have been in a cow she might have took them full term
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9/4/2004, 4:08
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Re: Split Embryo
We had a Blackstar daughter of Wiseburrow Roland Pamela 2 that was the result of the ET team deliberately splitting an embryo before implantation. Both eggs went on to produce live heifer calves.
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9/4/2004, 9:47
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Re: Split Embryo
this has happened to me twice, and heifers both times. As for spilting them before implantation, tend to get more males. They will only spilt a real good egg, so this theory of B & C grade embryos having a better chance of producing heifers, appears to be a good one.
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9/4/2004, 14:54
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Re: Split Embryo
I have noticed in our ET experience that the number 2 and 3 embryos do produce more heifers and agree with the theory.
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9/4/2004, 17:10
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kenny
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Re: Split Embryo
We had a Grade 1 split naturally ended up with 2 bulls, i also notice that poorer quality embryos have a higher chance of resulting in a heifer
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9/4/2004, 20:13
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