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Bringing in receps adds more animals to the herd and people
are usually looking for cheap does and bring in animals with
CL.
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Amount of time required to synchronize breeding does and
recep does. This is a hassle to do cidrs and shots in all of
the required animals and then watch and document when recep
does come into heat.
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Trying to determine how many receps required. The rule of
thumb is 10 receps per breeding doe. However, you may not
need any of them or you may need twice as many as you
planned on according to how many embryos you get.
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The breeding of the main does may not be successful and you
have wasted a lot of money and time.
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The embryos put into the receps may not be accepted. You may
lose some of them or all of them.
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Flushing does not mean that you will get all great kids. You
can easily get some or all of the kids that are not what you
expected.
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We
do not want to put our does through the process of being
flushed
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You can have animals die during a flush.
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If
you have a successful flush, you still have a large expense
per kid that you have to be able to be able to justify by
being able to sell them at a higher price. This normally
doesn't occur for breeders that don't have the well known
name or winning genetics.
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Flushing was fine when there were very few fullbloods
available in the US. Now there are a large number of
fullbloods available and flushing makes less sense unless
you are just wanting to multiply the number of animals in
your own herd quickly. It still may not happen.
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Flushing can harm a doe so she may no longer breed
naturally. We will never buy a doe anymore that we know has
been flushed.
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There are different techniques for flushing and each has its
on pros and cons.
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I
can show you breeders that flushed highly visible animals
and when they took the kids to a production sale, they only
got $300-$500 for very nice animals. When you deduct costs
for flushing, overhead of production sale, maintenance
raising them, it becomes a poor choice to flush just for the
sake of flushing. There are too many breeders just mass
producing boer goats through flushing and it is no longer
really justified.
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We
prefer to have more does with different genetics and breed
naturally than to have only a few genetics and flush them.
