Are you asking yourself why do I need to clone? How can cloning benefit my genetic program or add dollars to my bottom line? Listed below are some of the ways cloning can benefit anyone’s genetic program. Keep in mind these are just some of the reasons. Each day our clients give us new reasons as to why they are cloning. The benefits of the cloning technology are limited only by the openness of your thought process.

To keep up with the demand for semen, embryos and offspring:

By having additional copies of high demand sires or females your production increases. The replacement of injured or lost animals that are in the peak of their sales demand. By having clones of key production animals in different states or countries to keep a continued supply of semen or embryos in the market if a country’s health status changes.

Continue the influence of foundation stock that died unexpectedly:

Everyone knows that when you work with livestock the unexpected can happen. Cloning allows you to replace that foundation animal and continue the genetic input he or she was purchased or bred for.

Repair injured cattle:

Every year key breeding males and females are injured. Have you had a female split herself or maybe get blocked oviducts after calving? Maybe your top sire has injured his testicles or stifle himself during breeding season. These accidents and many others limit the amount of genetic influence some animals can have on your breeding program. Cyagra's Cloning Technology allows you to produce clones of these animals without the injuries.

Multiple copies of top performing bulls for natural use:

Running a lot of cattle and wish you could use your top herd sire on a large group of your females? Cloning can allow you to have several copies of that bull to turn out with your herd for natural service.

Merchandising opportunities that will let you realize the value of your animal but let you keep the influence in your herd:

Having the ability to cash in on your top animal while she or he is at the top of their game and still have the genetics to continue in your breeding program is an important use of the cloning technology. You can sell the founder and keep a clone. How about keeping the founder and a clone and sell a clone. Sell the DNA rights to clone and not have to raise a calf. Your options can be as creative as you like, but the bottom line is that you are getting the value out while they are at the top.

Bring a top-performing steer back as a bull

Ever wish you hadn’t made a steer of that bull? Or maybe your program is based on performance and you want to put your male into a controlled feed test and then back it up with a carcass evaluation? By preserving cell lines Cyagra can bring back that tremendous performance Steer as a bull!

Bring back a freemartin as a functional female:

Freemartins are caused when male and female twins share placental circulation, which allows the interchange of embryonic cells and possibly also hormones. However when the animal is reproduced as a female single that process will not be present allowing the calf to develop as a normal female.

Biosecurity

If a contagious disease brakes out in your location your herd may be disposed of because it is in the radius of the depopulation area. With cloning you can bring back the key foundation animals and continue with your breeding program with out losing years of breeding progress.

Eliminate some diseases:

Some bacterial diseases can be eliminated during the cell line development process. Others can be eliminated through proper management after the animal is born. Vaccination titers can also be eliminated. This can be done, because you know the animals true value at that time. In the future some genetic disorders could be eliminated through gene manipulation.

Line Breeding programs can reintroduce females and males several generations later to intensify the gene pool:

Line breeding programs have brought males back into breeding program many generations later by use of semen. Now we can bring back the influential females generations later to breed to their great great grandsons. A truly exciting tool!

Speed up your genetic program:

Instead of having one top female in your flush program or breeding program imagine what you could accomplish with two, four or eight of her. Can you see how many more mating combinations you could produce and how fast the improvement in your herd could be? Not to mention the increase number of offspring you would have available for sale.

Building a Foundation herd:

Cloning has a real impact in this area. It allows you to produce multiple copies of the foundation females you want to work with. You can invest money into older proven genetics and reproduce them in a younger form to work with. The clones will give you a uniform base of genetics to build from. Herd uniformity can bring you real production and management efficiencies.