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<blockquote data-quote="msscamp" data-source="post: 397268" data-attributes="member: 539"><p>The primary purpose of castration is to prevent substandard bulls from breeding heifers/cows. The advantages (aside from the one already stated) are 1) steers tend to be less interested in busting out of corrals/pastures/pens to breed females, 2) steers tend to be less interested in fighting so gain weight better, 3) there is no testosterone floating throughout the body, so more docile/calmer behavior, 4) depending on your area, no dock at the salebarn, and 5) feedlots generally like steers better than bulls(at least in this area). I'm not sure I would castrate at birth, because testosterone does have some fairly major advantages when it comes to weight gain(although implanting will help offset this, to some degree. I don't know to what degree, because we never implanted - it just didn't fit with our operation) - we usually castrated at branding, so the calves were anywhere from a few weeks to 2 months old - anything less than apprx 2 weeks old was not branded at that time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msscamp, post: 397268, member: 539"] The primary purpose of castration is to prevent substandard bulls from breeding heifers/cows. The advantages (aside from the one already stated) are 1) steers tend to be less interested in busting out of corrals/pastures/pens to breed females, 2) steers tend to be less interested in fighting so gain weight better, 3) there is no testosterone floating throughout the body, so more docile/calmer behavior, 4) depending on your area, no dock at the salebarn, and 5) feedlots generally like steers better than bulls(at least in this area). I'm not sure I would castrate at birth, because testosterone does have some fairly major advantages when it comes to weight gain(although implanting will help offset this, to some degree. I don't know to what degree, because we never implanted - it just didn't fit with our operation) - we usually castrated at branding, so the calves were anywhere from a few weeks to 2 months old - anything less than apprx 2 weeks old was not branded at that time. [/QUOTE]
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