Use Sexcel® and 60/40 Synch to Make the Right Replacements for Your Herd

6040 Synch

THE 60 IN THE EQUATION:

Sexcel 60/40 Synch is a strategic breeding program that gives you the power to design replacement heifers from the right segment of your cows while maximizing performance and endpoint value of the remainder of your calf crop.

Take advantage of the convenience of estrus synchronization protocols to identify your most fertile cows. Well-managed herds can expect more than 60 percent of the females to display estrus by scheduled breeding time when utilizing the 7-day Co-synch + CIDR protocol.

THE END RESULT:

THE 40 IN THE EQUATION:

The remaining 40 percent of cows should be bred via timed AI to terminally oriented bulls. To reap the most benefit from the program, all females should be exposed to clean-up sires that excel for growth performance and endpoint value.

A calf crop composed of 30-35% designed, AI-sired replacement heifers and 65-70% high-value feeder calves.

Females that display estrus with fully activated patches are time AI’d with Sexcel semen from maternally designed bulls

~40%

Females that do not display estrus are time AI’d with conventional semen from terminally oriented bulls

~60% ARE APPROXIMATELY

Terminally Oriented Steer & heifer calves to market (includes both AI and natural service calves)

All cows are synchronized and fitted with Estrotect™ patches. All cows are exposed to a terminally oriented sire for clean up.

65%

Maternally Designed AI sired heifer calves to retain

Estrus detection aids make it simple to identify cows that have displayed estrus at the time of AI. By inseminating only cows that display estrus with Sexcel female semen, you are indirectly selecting the earliest calving and most reproductively efficient cows to be the mothers of the next generation of replacement females

Three years into our large-scale, commercial demonstration project with the Bair Ranch, in Martinsdale, Montana, it is becoming clear that we can reliably make 30-35% of a calf crop as designed replacement heifers using the Sexcel 60/40 Synch concept in well-managed cow herds.

The Benefits

9 Maximize productivity and efficiency of your herd

9 Create replacements designed for maternal value from your early calving cows

9 Build your best cowherd with maternal sires

9 Add more power, pounds, and terminal value to the portion of your calf-crop headed into the beef supply chain

IDEAL SIRES FOR SEXCEL 60/40 SYNCH

Focus on MATERNAL VALUE with sires like these:

ANGUS

Page 2 29AN2252 POLARIS

Page 17 29AN2221 COMSTOCK

Page 17 29AN2247 EMBLEM 29AN1852 RESERVE SIMMENTAL Page 26 29SM0507 COMMANDER HEREFORD

Page 30 29HP0954 BARRACUDA

Page 31 29HP0956 KINGDOM

Tips for maximizing END PRODUCT PROFITABILITY in sire selection: Learn more about synchronization and current protocols at bit.ly/abs-synch-protocols

1. Utilize the NuEra Genetics™ line, designed for profit

2. Consider using Simmental sires that rank high on the ABS’ proprietary US Beef Index

3. Look at Angus sires in the Performance and End Product section starting on page 13

4. Identify Charolais bulls with a high Terminal Sire Index