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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1261530" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>We don't really have the facilities (or skill) to preg check... someday it may come.. I do keep a fairly close eye on them so I usually know if the bull has been with them.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the time we didn't know if the bull was to blame, we had some bulls that didn't know which end of the cow was the business end, and we had one come up with a broken penis a week into the season.. In a way it was the best thing that ever happened, we got a much better bull as a replacement.</p><p></p><p>I don't bring outside cattle in, except for bulls.. I don't go buying stuff at the sale barn.. I would definitely cull differently if I did. As it stands I can tell you the history of any animal for 25 years. I currently have 6 bloodlines remaining out of about 20, and 2 of them are on the chopping block for eradication as well. I think of the remaining 4 lines, I *might* get rid of one more, but it'll take a while, I have a number of animals in it and they may turn out yet. The way I run around here, docility is high, I do all the cattle handling myself, I can't have high headed cows that deliberately go the wrong way and take half the herd with them passing by every gate.. For sorting it's real nice when I can slip a halter on them and bring them to where I need them, rather than bringing the entire herd into the corrals to get them sorted out.. My young bull is a good example.. I needed him with a different group of cows, so I haltered him up and he nicely followed where he needed to go. I am working on getting the sizes of my calves more uniform, I still get a few dinks every year, and that really hurts the average.. rather than pushing for a greater number of very heavy calves, I'm going to concentrate on getting less small ones. It's a long road, and I'm optimistically half way to where I want to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1261530, member: 9096"] We don't really have the facilities (or skill) to preg check... someday it may come.. I do keep a fairly close eye on them so I usually know if the bull has been with them. A lot of the time we didn't know if the bull was to blame, we had some bulls that didn't know which end of the cow was the business end, and we had one come up with a broken penis a week into the season.. In a way it was the best thing that ever happened, we got a much better bull as a replacement. I don't bring outside cattle in, except for bulls.. I don't go buying stuff at the sale barn.. I would definitely cull differently if I did. As it stands I can tell you the history of any animal for 25 years. I currently have 6 bloodlines remaining out of about 20, and 2 of them are on the chopping block for eradication as well. I think of the remaining 4 lines, I *might* get rid of one more, but it'll take a while, I have a number of animals in it and they may turn out yet. The way I run around here, docility is high, I do all the cattle handling myself, I can't have high headed cows that deliberately go the wrong way and take half the herd with them passing by every gate.. For sorting it's real nice when I can slip a halter on them and bring them to where I need them, rather than bringing the entire herd into the corrals to get them sorted out.. My young bull is a good example.. I needed him with a different group of cows, so I haltered him up and he nicely followed where he needed to go. I am working on getting the sizes of my calves more uniform, I still get a few dinks every year, and that really hurts the average.. rather than pushing for a greater number of very heavy calves, I'm going to concentrate on getting less small ones. It's a long road, and I'm optimistically half way to where I want to be. [/QUOTE]
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