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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1845323" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>The reason I said bulls used on BLM need legs is because they have to be able to "cover ground", as in be able to walk long distances. Out west it's not unusual to have a cow/calf unit per hundred acres... so a hundred cows on ten thousand acres of not particularly friendly country. Sometimes forage so sparse that cows spread out miles from each other, and miles back and forth to water. Bulls with legs have more stride and they don't have to work as hard to cover ground between cows to service them. Of course there's a balance between being capable, and being attractive to a market. The bull that prompted the initial comment had legs. Probably a percentage Chianina.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Cattle-High-Desert-Oregon-OSU-EESC.jpg" alt="grazing in desert" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The green stuff in the picture is mostly sagebrush, and cattle don't eat it. What they eat is between the sage and the other green stuff you see. It's so sparse in the picture that you don't see it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1845323, member: 42463"] The reason I said bulls used on BLM need legs is because they have to be able to "cover ground", as in be able to walk long distances. Out west it's not unusual to have a cow/calf unit per hundred acres... so a hundred cows on ten thousand acres of not particularly friendly country. Sometimes forage so sparse that cows spread out miles from each other, and miles back and forth to water. Bulls with legs have more stride and they don't have to work as hard to cover ground between cows to service them. Of course there's a balance between being capable, and being attractive to a market. The bull that prompted the initial comment had legs. Probably a percentage Chianina. [IMG alt="grazing in desert"]https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Cattle-High-Desert-Oregon-OSU-EESC.jpg[/IMG] The green stuff in the picture is mostly sagebrush, and cattle don't eat it. What they eat is between the sage and the other green stuff you see. It's so sparse in the picture that you don't see it. [/QUOTE]
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