Table of contents
- The Benefits of Using Sexcel on Your Dairy
- One Result You Can Count On
- Build a Profitable Breeding Strategy for Your Dairy Herd with Sexcel
- Create Your Ideal Dairy Replacements
- Increase Your Calf Check with Sexcel Male Beef
- Implementing Sexcel Male Beef on Your Dairy
- Strategically Use Sexcel to Make Your Beef Replacement Heifers
The Benefits of Using Sexcel on Your Dairy
Sexcel® Sexed Genetics is the product you can count on. It gets your cows pregnant, fast forwards your genetic progress, produces your ideal replacement heifers, and adds profit opportunities to your dairy.
- Increase your herd size from within by creating more heifers or maintain your current size by precisely managing your heifer inventories.
- Improve your herd’s lifetime genetic value through genetically superior daughters from elite sires.
- Produce beef cross calves demanded by the beef supply chain, whether sold as day-olds or retained through later stages of production.
Not only does Sexcel deliver the one result you can count on, it’s also an essential tool for building a profitable breeding strategy that maximizes conception and multiplies potential.
One Result You Can Count On
The real value of Sexcel lies in its ability to deliver results—more pregnancies, better performance, faster genetic progress, and increased profits. Today, Sexcel achieves more than 95% relative conception rate to conventional semen. But let’s take that a step further. Below you will see how Sexcel stacks up against the other technology. Based on over 7 million inseminations, Sexcel proves to have an advantage.
Build a Profitable Breeding Strategy for Your Dairy Herd with Sexcel
Managing your herd’s breeding strategy isn’t just about pregnancies; it’s about making sure you create the right replacements and the most valuable beef cross calves. By building a breeding plan with ABS, you can improve your herd’s productivity, efficiency, and profitability.
- Breed your highest-performing cows with Sexcel Female Dairy to create ideal replacements.
- Breed your next level of genetic merit females to Sexcel Male Beef to produce premium beef cross calves.
- Breed your lowest genetic merit quality and performing cows with Beef InFocus® to optimize the added value of every calf.
Create Your Ideal Dairy Replacements
Use Sexcel Female Dairy to produce the ideal heifers for your operation, guaranteeing every new heifer calf born builds towards your most profitable herd. Your future success depends on two key factors:
- Effectively managing heifer inventory
- Precisely deploying the best sires on the best dams
Sexcel is the one result you can count on to achieve both. Fast forward genetic progress with ideal replacements and reduce rearing costs with ABS Global.
When looking to produce your next generation of females, ask yourself these questions to determine what the ideal cow is in your dairy.
- How do you get paid for your milk?
- Why do cows leave the dairy?
- What processor demands and facility changes are anticipated in the future?
- What does your herd need to look like in five years?
- Are there cow design issues affecting efficiency in your operation?
- Is your herd’s udder design sufficient for milking?
Increase Your Calf Check with Sexcel Male Beef
While male sexed beef semen isn’t a tool intended to influence your herd genetically, it can help you create higher-quality beef cross calves, maximizing short-term cash flow. The beef supply chain recognizes the advantages steers bring to their systems: better feed efficiency, average daily gain, and feed conversion. They’re noticing the value and rewarding producers based on sex.
Differentiate yourself within the beef supply chain by skewing the sexed ratio of your calf crop (like you’ve done for years with dairy genetics) with Sexcel Male Beef.
Implementing Sexcel Male Beef on Your Dairy
- Deploy into fertile heats that will result in a pregnancy, but in animals not critically needed to create a replacement—think of females that you want to harvest their milk but not their genetics
- Use in healthy females who will give us another calf and remain in the herd through that gestation
- Place, typically, in young animals and the 1st and 2nd service
- Handle it just like female sexed semen
Today, it may feel like you don’t need to pay attention to your calf crop’s gender ratio with the strong demand from the chain, driving solid calf prices. However, as markets shift, producing just a live black calf may not cut it anymore. Being aware of tools like male sexed beef semen can help you create a black calf that excels for supply chain profit drivers: feed efficiency, carcass traits, and growth traits and drive overall profitability for you.
Strategically Use Sexcel to Make Your Beef Replacement Heifers
Beef producers that utilize Sexcel can purposefully select sires with greater maternal traits and generate superior replacement heifers. When selecting these sires, producers can focus on traits associated with fertility, milking ability, maintenance cost, and longevity.
By combining the use of female sexed semen, estrus synchronization, and breeding strategies like Sexcel 60/40 Synch, more replacement female calves can be born closer to the beginning of the calving season. These replacement heifers are then not only genetically superior for maternal traits but are also older by the start of their first breeding season, which increases their chances of becoming pregnant and longevity in the herd.
A list of recommended estrus synchronization protocols for sexed semen is available from the Beef Reproduction Task Force and can help producers minimize differences in fertility between sexed and conventional semen.
Whether you are a producer looking to create the ideal replacement heifer for your farm or wanting to produce the high-quality animal to enter the beef supply chain, Sexcel helps you:
- Get your cows pregnant
- Manage your ideal herd size
- Create more valuable male beef cross calves
- Fast forward genetic progress with elite genetics
- Maximize conception and multiply potential across your herd
Don’t take our word for it. Listen to your peers.
Our 4-year plan has been to expand our milking herd and build new infrastructure to support this growth. We’ve been using Sexcel to precisely grow the cow herd from within—rather than purchasing new animals—as we continue to build our facilities. And my goodness, we have gotten a reward when using Sexcel because our herd has […]
Issac Hammock | Hammock Dairy Inc., Chatham, VA
“If you want good genetics and to save heifers, I would definitely recommend Sexcel. The product seems to be very accurate and has met our expectations.” Dan Blower, Blower Farms, NE
Blowers Farms
“ABS has allowed us to accelerate genetic progress and now that we know we have the capability of getting a heifer calf our of our best cow and getting a beef animal out of our worse cow, we’ve began to implement genomics to further increase the genetic progress. The sky is the limit for how much we want to push in order to make a better cow.”
Helt Dairy
ABS Global is here to help you make every pregnancy count. Sexcel Sexed Genetics is powered by ABS Global’s IntelliGen Technologies, the most advanced semen sexing technology in the industry. Contact your ABS Genetic Advisor or complete the form below to put a profitable breeding strategy to work in your herd with Sexcel!