Beef Scanning

It is never too early for a scanning yarn. My small animal colleagues roll their eyes or slope away when we start talking about scanning rates, or the latest pistol grips and head set configurations.

For many beef producers they have realised the value in our scanning skills and can tolerate a level of in-depth discussion. "Being able to find those twin bearing cows is gold” one farmer said to me today. In order to do this, scanning between 40 and 100 days pregnancy is required. It is the same window in order to get pregnancies scanned into cycle groups, monitor bull performance and identify AI pregnancies.

So if you are interested in yarning about more than just wet-dry rates, get organised and book in your pregnancy testing now. Also let us know if you want BVD screening and tidying up horns done at the same time.