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<blockquote data-quote="lithuanian farmer" data-source="post: 1746813" data-attributes="member: 19683"><p>No, do not castrate. </p><p>Would I use a bull with bigger bw - yes (I already did it, but on selected cows), would I sell a pure bull- it depends from the breed and bull's bw itself. If it's charolais and 110lbs, then not a problem, but giving a clear info to the future owner and making sure he understands what I say. However, alot of bulls sold from the local farmers here have bigger birth weights that what I would consider an average bw for a breed. Would never sell a bull with HUGE bw for breeding. Have seen too many not the smartest cattle owners and when dealing with big bw you have to be smart and know when the cow can handle the calving and when it's too much for her. Plus you can never breed the whole herd to those big bw bulls. You need to know your herd as good as yourself or better and make decision based on that. Noticed that alot of people are just expecting luck at such situations. A couple weeks ago had a case, where owners didn't knew for sure how long the cow was calving, but said that maybe for two or three days... It already sounds awfull, but in reality the cow was in labor for ~6 days, as the calf was dead inside for good 3-4 days. They have been farming for 20+years and still couldn't tell that something was extremely wrong. Give them a bigger bw bull and they would loose all their cows in a year. So yeah, keeping big bw bulls for myself only, if I ever gonna have a pure bull like that, or just fattening him for beef.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lithuanian farmer, post: 1746813, member: 19683"] No, do not castrate. Would I use a bull with bigger bw - yes (I already did it, but on selected cows), would I sell a pure bull- it depends from the breed and bull's bw itself. If it's charolais and 110lbs, then not a problem, but giving a clear info to the future owner and making sure he understands what I say. However, alot of bulls sold from the local farmers here have bigger birth weights that what I would consider an average bw for a breed. Would never sell a bull with HUGE bw for breeding. Have seen too many not the smartest cattle owners and when dealing with big bw you have to be smart and know when the cow can handle the calving and when it's too much for her. Plus you can never breed the whole herd to those big bw bulls. You need to know your herd as good as yourself or better and make decision based on that. Noticed that alot of people are just expecting luck at such situations. A couple weeks ago had a case, where owners didn't knew for sure how long the cow was calving, but said that maybe for two or three days... It already sounds awfull, but in reality the cow was in labor for ~6 days, as the calf was dead inside for good 3-4 days. They have been farming for 20+years and still couldn't tell that something was extremely wrong. Give them a bigger bw bull and they would loose all their cows in a year. So yeah, keeping big bw bulls for myself only, if I ever gonna have a pure bull like that, or just fattening him for beef. [/QUOTE]
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