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<blockquote data-quote="Boot Jack Bulls" data-source="post: 1578485" data-attributes="member: 24016"><p>No. Loosing weight is not loosing nothing...its loosing money. There is no excuse for a properly managed and otherwise healthy bull to loose weight during a breeding season. If he looses too much weight during season 1. you are out those $/pounds if you have to ship him, and 2. especially in older bulls, it gets very hard to put condition back on them so that they don't freeze or starve to death during our winters (up here anyway!). </p><p></p><p>Structural issues are exacerbated by obesity. Its the same strife humans face. No animal has perfect structure, but carrying an extra couple hundred pounds around every day will not make the issue better, I can assure you! My Titan is old. He has arthritis in his joints and gets sore feet. I have his sons, daughters, grand daughters, and siblings in production. His issues are NOT genetic. He was fed hard and hauled over 10,000 miles by the time he was 4 years old...you would feel like c**p too. His issues are 100% a management problem (mine!, so not pointing fingers here!).</p><p></p><p>The fact of the matter is, there is a skill to feeding to maximize genetic potential, without thus obliterating it! I feed grain to my stock as needed to maintain optimal WORKING CONDITION. I work to balance all facets of their rations so they are economical and the very best fuel to make me money! I have bought bulls of various breeds and ages from well-known programs and lesser known ones. I have bred many of my bulls. I can tell you of a bull I know is sitting a stud right now, that is on a diet because he is too fat to produce usable semen. I can also tell you of one in my own pasture who somehow got so fat with no grain that he is now dry lotted (I mean grass shorter than my fresh cut lawn!) until he can slim down to a working weight...In the meantime, neither of those bulls is making any money!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boot Jack Bulls, post: 1578485, member: 24016"] No. Loosing weight is not loosing nothing...its loosing money. There is no excuse for a properly managed and otherwise healthy bull to loose weight during a breeding season. If he looses too much weight during season 1. you are out those $/pounds if you have to ship him, and 2. especially in older bulls, it gets very hard to put condition back on them so that they don't freeze or starve to death during our winters (up here anyway!). Structural issues are exacerbated by obesity. Its the same strife humans face. No animal has perfect structure, but carrying an extra couple hundred pounds around every day will not make the issue better, I can assure you! My Titan is old. He has arthritis in his joints and gets sore feet. I have his sons, daughters, grand daughters, and siblings in production. His issues are NOT genetic. He was fed hard and hauled over 10,000 miles by the time he was 4 years old...you would feel like c**p too. His issues are 100% a management problem (mine!, so not pointing fingers here!). The fact of the matter is, there is a skill to feeding to maximize genetic potential, without thus obliterating it! I feed grain to my stock as needed to maintain optimal WORKING CONDITION. I work to balance all facets of their rations so they are economical and the very best fuel to make me money! I have bought bulls of various breeds and ages from well-known programs and lesser known ones. I have bred many of my bulls. I can tell you of a bull I know is sitting a stud right now, that is on a diet because he is too fat to produce usable semen. I can also tell you of one in my own pasture who somehow got so fat with no grain that he is now dry lotted (I mean grass shorter than my fresh cut lawn!) until he can slim down to a working weight...In the meantime, neither of those bulls is making any money! [/QUOTE]
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