Weekly Update: 06/10/17

CPT AI

  • This week our CPT AI preparation continues. As of today 1,700 ewes out of the total 2,300 CPT ewes have been sponged. These sponges will be removed from ewes 12 days after insertion. This will synchronise oestrus for our CPT AI on day 14. This breeding plan takes a huge amount of planning for each flock, but so far things have progressed very well, thanks in no small part to the cooperation of participating farmers.
  • This week we have also been busy training our CPT rams to provide semen for AI. In order to facilitate efficient fresh semen AI each day on farm, it is critical that all rams are adequately trained and familiar with providing semen. So far all rams have taken well to training and semen quality has been extremely good.