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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1389364" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Too bad you aren't closer. We would be glad to have someone feed one of our bulls for 2 months in the winter....I'm in Va so it's not practical. We usually rent 2 or 3 out for breeding, to small operations, and get them back at the end of 2 or 3 months. Having been caught needing a bull before, we are big enough now that we have at least 3 that are not being used at any one time. Once we had a bull that we had used for several years on cows and kept him because we liked his calves. Then one year at the preg ck all but one was OPEN.... so we quickly put 2 young bulls in there and got them caught. They are still about a month behind where they should be, but they were nearly 4 months behind when we caught the problem. He had no physical issues, just started shooting blanks. And he was a bull that had never been leased out so never got exposed to anything anywhere else. </p><p>I would think that this would be a better time to get a bull to use up there than not. Ever think to try another breed of semen? Many holstein breeders here will use a jersey or an angus on a hard to breed cow...just to get her settled then be able to start over when she comes back into the milking herd. Pregnant is better than not...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1389364, member: 25884"] Too bad you aren't closer. We would be glad to have someone feed one of our bulls for 2 months in the winter....I'm in Va so it's not practical. We usually rent 2 or 3 out for breeding, to small operations, and get them back at the end of 2 or 3 months. Having been caught needing a bull before, we are big enough now that we have at least 3 that are not being used at any one time. Once we had a bull that we had used for several years on cows and kept him because we liked his calves. Then one year at the preg ck all but one was OPEN.... so we quickly put 2 young bulls in there and got them caught. They are still about a month behind where they should be, but they were nearly 4 months behind when we caught the problem. He had no physical issues, just started shooting blanks. And he was a bull that had never been leased out so never got exposed to anything anywhere else. I would think that this would be a better time to get a bull to use up there than not. Ever think to try another breed of semen? Many holstein breeders here will use a jersey or an angus on a hard to breed cow...just to get her settled then be able to start over when she comes back into the milking herd. Pregnant is better than not... [/QUOTE]
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