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I have not been able to find out if a Bufalo bull can breed a cow I dont want to raise a lot of them just thought it would be kind of neat. last fall we caught a bufalo bull calf he has been running whith our bulls for over a year and he rides the bulls so was thinking of throwing him on a few longhorn cows just for fun. would it work and would the heifers be fertile? :cowboy:
i dont know how much you have been around buffalo so i am just going to point out that neat wont describe it at all. a buffalo cow is meaner than any bull you ever been around so you can imagine what a buffalo bull should act like. also they are faster than cows spin quicker than cows and if they dont want you out there will come running at your vehicle and smash into the side of it. on top of that when a buffalos calf gets across a fence line they are different than a cow. a cow will bawl and get calf to crawl back over a buffalo will smash down and tear out a chuck of fence and i not talking just a post or 2 i mean 100 ft of it completely to the ground. they are hard on things your corrals better be good and i mean real good cause it isnt that they will jump them but just put thier head down and go threw whatever they want. also if you buy buffalo cows and bring them to your place they will consstantly get out until you have replacements out of them that have been born and raised on your place and than those replacements will stay better but the older cows will still get out.
On a positive not though you wont have to break any ice during the winter because the buffalo will just walk along a creek or edge of dam and smash its head into the ice breaking it open. and do it in alot of different spots not just one so there is a good side to havine one around in that sense. also we have had few them buffalo cows get out and just seem content to stay with the regular cows before and i never did see one get bred at all.