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By MARK SCOLFORO
Rappahannock Newt SUIT Writer
Using state-of-the-art technology, Washington cattle farmer Newbill Miller has succeeded in getting “a full lifetime of production out of my best cow in one year. ”
In simple terms, he achieved such a result by forcing his two best cows to produce multiple eggs, then “flushing” the eggs out, fertilizing them with high-quality sperm and replacing the embryos in lesserquality COW8.
“You should be getting your higher-quality animals to advance the quality of your breed stock,” he explained.
The result is that Mr. Miller’s Ginger Hill Angus Farm is home to 70 purebred angus calves this year, few of which look anything like the cows that gave birth to them.
He said he feels “very lucky” to have achieved the results that he has had this season. Two select cows were drugged to produce multiple eggs last spring, and the calves were bom in late February and early March of this year.
“The quality of these calves is very, very good,” said Mr. Miller.
Mr. Miller sells or rents-out his bulls to Arms that specialize in selling bull semen to farmers, firms such as Select Sires in Ohio, American Breeder Services, Genetic Horizons in South Dakota and Tri-State Breeders in Minnesota.
As a result, Ginger Hill Farm must have genes from its best-proven cows and bulls be used for procreation. Some of the lesser-quality cows, however, can still be used as host mothers.
Cows can only give birth (reliably) to one calf per year, so the cows who serve as surrogates are helping to increase the numbers of top-quality animals in the herd, al
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