DEAR SIR: Using a cheap beef straw and doing AI a second time 12 hours after using female dairy-sexed semen may be a way of reducing unwanted dairy-bred bull calves and yet maintain good conception rates for compact calving. I was wondering if any of your readers had any experience with this?

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