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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1823678" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>The bull was in for 6 months the first lactation, then we switched the next year and he was in for a year because of my knee replacements and all that stuff... He was pulled out and no one in there for 4-5 months, so she calved to him and then got bred back in less than 60 days, then out for over 6 months, then put in a new bull this july and he is out now since we wanted to move younger heifers in this pasture..so he was in for maybe 3-4 months this time. This is a pasture where we can "stash" a bull if needed and easy for me to get them into the catch lot also. We try to only do a 60-90 day breeding season most places, but sometimes it doesn't seem to get done. The thing is here we nearly always have calves, to whomever is there, born within 30 days of each other... so sometimes it is just easier to leave the bull after we put him in for breeding, for 4-6 months.... because it doesn't seem to matter who we have there, they get them bred fast. The other 4 calves up there were born within 3 weeks of each other this time. The longhorn stays in this pasture, it is too hard to try to trailer her to other places with her horn spread, and she doesn't bother anyone else we put in there with her. She likes her space, but I have never seen anyone overly shy of her, she will shake her head if someone is crowding her, but doesn't go after anyone like my nurse cow would until we took her horns off, and other cows will get into the feed trough with her, when I feed... although I usually feed her some grain separate, so no one gets poked and she is a real lady... will stay right at her pile of grain on the ground and eat every last kernel, not run to the feeder to push anyone else out.... We will pull the rest of the females out to do preg checks but she doesn't get checked... I will eat her steer calf this time... he is a chunk.... and she will be due to calve again next Mar/Apr... bull will go in there next June again with some heifers to breed so she will not be backing up again. I do not want these heifers calving in the fall so some will be 30 months when they calve..... Sometimes we stick some cows in here that have a bad foot or a limp or some problem, or out of synch with breeding the rest... but they will get moved out into a group else where for the fall/winter breeding.... had one here for 4 calves that had a lame leg/limp .... she was supposed to be a one and done, and got caught by the bull and calved 4 years straight within 30 days of the previous year's calf... then came up open, was walking good and we shipped her when we weaned her calf. Have 2 of her daughters, 1 with a calf and one bred now... It's kind of my "catchall" pasture... my nurse cow is there also and she is due in about a month...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1823678, member: 25884"] The bull was in for 6 months the first lactation, then we switched the next year and he was in for a year because of my knee replacements and all that stuff... He was pulled out and no one in there for 4-5 months, so she calved to him and then got bred back in less than 60 days, then out for over 6 months, then put in a new bull this july and he is out now since we wanted to move younger heifers in this pasture..so he was in for maybe 3-4 months this time. This is a pasture where we can "stash" a bull if needed and easy for me to get them into the catch lot also. We try to only do a 60-90 day breeding season most places, but sometimes it doesn't seem to get done. The thing is here we nearly always have calves, to whomever is there, born within 30 days of each other... so sometimes it is just easier to leave the bull after we put him in for breeding, for 4-6 months.... because it doesn't seem to matter who we have there, they get them bred fast. The other 4 calves up there were born within 3 weeks of each other this time. The longhorn stays in this pasture, it is too hard to try to trailer her to other places with her horn spread, and she doesn't bother anyone else we put in there with her. She likes her space, but I have never seen anyone overly shy of her, she will shake her head if someone is crowding her, but doesn't go after anyone like my nurse cow would until we took her horns off, and other cows will get into the feed trough with her, when I feed... although I usually feed her some grain separate, so no one gets poked and she is a real lady... will stay right at her pile of grain on the ground and eat every last kernel, not run to the feeder to push anyone else out.... We will pull the rest of the females out to do preg checks but she doesn't get checked... I will eat her steer calf this time... he is a chunk.... and she will be due to calve again next Mar/Apr... bull will go in there next June again with some heifers to breed so she will not be backing up again. I do not want these heifers calving in the fall so some will be 30 months when they calve..... Sometimes we stick some cows in here that have a bad foot or a limp or some problem, or out of synch with breeding the rest... but they will get moved out into a group else where for the fall/winter breeding.... had one here for 4 calves that had a lame leg/limp .... she was supposed to be a one and done, and got caught by the bull and calved 4 years straight within 30 days of the previous year's calf... then came up open, was walking good and we shipped her when we weaned her calf. Have 2 of her daughters, 1 with a calf and one bred now... It's kind of my "catchall" pasture... my nurse cow is there also and she is due in about a month... [/QUOTE]
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