$ BY BETH HEMMJLNGER
Staff Correspondent
CHAMBERSBURG - At the
recent Franklin County Dairy Day,
Wayne Hall of Shippensburg
shared tus experiences with em
, bryo transplants. Hall, a dairy
farmer for 14 years, has tran
splanted the embryos of two of his
excellent cows.
A question harbored by many of
the farmers during the meeting
was “Why?” Hall’s answer to the
question was simple. “1 wanted
inure offspring from my lup-auich
cows.”
He remarked, "People have
asked me if 1 am transplanting out
of curosity or maybe because it is a
novel idea.” “Hardly,” he said,
pointing out that once any fanner
looks at the investment tran
splanting takes, it squelches any
curious ideas.
Hall said he feels most dairymen
who are breeding with the new
method are at the introductory
level, breeding _ one or two ex-
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cellent cows for top-quam
sprmg. However, he said, embryo
transplanting doesn’t eliminate the
risk of having bulls. “You still
have a fifty-fifty chance of getting
a heifer.”
Since tus first transplant two
years ago, Hall said costs have
dropped slightly because of the
growing competition in providing
transplanting service. He stated
that Select Sire is now offering the
service and he looks for other
.breeding businesses to "hop on the
band wagon.” However, he said, it
is still a cosily process at $5OO to
$7OO per pregnancy for the average
farmer.
Hall said that tus.first transplant
was done with an Excellent aged
cow. He said that she was old and
he didn’t know if he could breed
her one more time. "Transplanting
was the solution to that problem,"
he said.
Hall stated that he didn’t lair too
well with his first transplants. Only
two embryo’s were transplahted
with only one pregnancy and that
was a bull.
His second transplant to another
Excellent cow producing 32,000
pounds of milk looks extremely
favorable. Hall stated, "There
were seven embryos transplanted
in December and to date there are
seven pregnancies, however, they
are all still in the recipient stage.
Hall said embryo transplanting
is definitely an upcoming method
of reproduction in the dairy in
dustry. However he said the
average dairyman must be able to
show profit for this kind of in
vestment before the process will
become commonplace.
Hall said he is interested in new
developments and keeps abreast of
new information about tran
splanting through magazines and
various publications. He said that
he recently read that researchers
are now working on ways to freeze
the embryos, dictating the sex of
the embryo and cloning.
Hall admitted, “The future
it
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sounds like a little frightening, but
it is definitely the road we are
headed for in dairy reproduction.”
Along with Hall, Harold Crider,
Ciiambersburg and Jed Bashore,
New Cumberland gave presen
tations similar to Hall’s about their
experience with embryo tran
splants.
Crider has completed at least
one transplant and Bashore has
been using the process fur four
MILLERSVTLLfcr The Manor
Young Farmers’ banquet will be
held on Thursday, April I, at 6:301
p.m. in the Penn Manor High
School cafeteria.
The speaker will be Keith Bckel,
President of the Pennsylvania
years and has transplanted four or
more different cows.
Mike O’Connor of Penn State
also presented information about
embryo transplanting at the
meeting. He provided those
members of the audience, who
knew little about the new
reproduction process with basic
facts and procedures, from in
semination to flushing and tran
splanting.
Manor YF banquet set
Fanners’ Association. His topic
will be "Eastern Agriculture”.
Music will ,be provided by some
local farmers, The Bluegrass Jug
Band. Tickets are $7.00. For
reservations call Jeff Hart, PMHS,
at 872-5431 or Henry Barley, at 872-
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