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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 546028" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>Well I will be the bad guy.</p><p></p><p>Bull managment is a part of herd management.</p><p></p><p>If it is too much trouble to manage the bull then it is probably too much trouble to do regular pregnancy work and cull non productive females and do herd health work anyway so you will have cows open at any time of the year which will require a bull to be present to breed the open cows.</p><p></p><p>to have a controlled calving season to get a uniform aged and hopefully uniform sized and appearing calf crop you must have a controlled breeding season. At the end of the breeding season do the necessary preganancy work and sell or move the non bred cows and then I have no problem with the bull hanging out with the girls.</p><p></p><p>However I don't want the bull breeding my heifers so calf managment and weaning is more important.</p><p>Also i don't want the bull in with calving cows as surely you are going to have some cows breeding back earlier than necessary which will cut milk production and hinder the growth of the new season calf not to mention messing up the nice controlled calving season. </p><p></p><p>To me the question is a larger one of am I going to be a cattle breeder and manager or do I want to have a pet cow and bull. Or perhaps do i just want to have some land use cows. </p><p></p><p>bull managment is a technique of herd managment but it is not the only technique. But in my observation those who won't manage the bull usually wont do a lot of the other managment steps that need to be done to otherwise manage the herd.</p><p></p><p>Can the bull stay with the cows year round. Of course he can, and before man interfered there were several with the herd year round. but predators took care of the outliers and the injured and mother nature controlled the breeding season and cattle had horns to defend themselves and there were no hay costs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 546028, member: 6543"] Well I will be the bad guy. Bull managment is a part of herd management. If it is too much trouble to manage the bull then it is probably too much trouble to do regular pregnancy work and cull non productive females and do herd health work anyway so you will have cows open at any time of the year which will require a bull to be present to breed the open cows. to have a controlled calving season to get a uniform aged and hopefully uniform sized and appearing calf crop you must have a controlled breeding season. At the end of the breeding season do the necessary preganancy work and sell or move the non bred cows and then I have no problem with the bull hanging out with the girls. However I don't want the bull breeding my heifers so calf managment and weaning is more important. Also i don't want the bull in with calving cows as surely you are going to have some cows breeding back earlier than necessary which will cut milk production and hinder the growth of the new season calf not to mention messing up the nice controlled calving season. To me the question is a larger one of am I going to be a cattle breeder and manager or do I want to have a pet cow and bull. Or perhaps do i just want to have some land use cows. bull managment is a technique of herd managment but it is not the only technique. But in my observation those who won't manage the bull usually wont do a lot of the other managment steps that need to be done to otherwise manage the herd. Can the bull stay with the cows year round. Of course he can, and before man interfered there were several with the herd year round. but predators took care of the outliers and the injured and mother nature controlled the breeding season and cattle had horns to defend themselves and there were no hay costs. [/QUOTE]
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