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<blockquote data-quote="lithuanian farmer" data-source="post: 1578529" data-attributes="member: 19683"><p>Nice looking bulls RBB!</p><p>I had some experience with an overfed herd bull before. Bought him at 22months age. Bulls in that farm are fed heavily and are kept in the barn after weaning. He was in a nice condition at the time, not too fat actually. Bought him in winter. Kept him for a month to get used to us and then let out with a couple heifers and cows. Not many for the first season, +-20females to serve. Out pastures aren't very rich, so cows often slim down abit then put the weight back on. Dry cows are in a nice condition after the grazing season, but not very fat. However, cows can raise calves pretty well, so it shouldn't be a problem for a bull to keep his weight on. In the first season bull has lost some condition. Winter with only hay but hardly any cow to breed has done a bigger damage for his weight. He put on some weight during next season, with approx 30females to breed, but he wasn't in a shape I'd liked him to be before winter so had to separate him from the herd and give him some meal to put some weight back on. He got around 25females to breed and was sold in fall to another farm. By the fall he didn't looked the same as in spring.</p><p>On the contrary, had another bull bought at 13months age from another farm. He was pretty small for his age, got just abit of meal after weaning. We weren't feeding much of meal at that time too, so he was growing slower and had hardly any fat when we let him out with cows, but he lost more weight only on his first year. Then he would naturally would put some fat during winter, then loose it during summer, but would still look great, with nice muscles. He had to cover the same amount of cows as another one, but did way better at keeping his weight and he didn't needed any extra supplementing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lithuanian farmer, post: 1578529, member: 19683"] Nice looking bulls RBB! I had some experience with an overfed herd bull before. Bought him at 22months age. Bulls in that farm are fed heavily and are kept in the barn after weaning. He was in a nice condition at the time, not too fat actually. Bought him in winter. Kept him for a month to get used to us and then let out with a couple heifers and cows. Not many for the first season, +-20females to serve. Out pastures aren't very rich, so cows often slim down abit then put the weight back on. Dry cows are in a nice condition after the grazing season, but not very fat. However, cows can raise calves pretty well, so it shouldn't be a problem for a bull to keep his weight on. In the first season bull has lost some condition. Winter with only hay but hardly any cow to breed has done a bigger damage for his weight. He put on some weight during next season, with approx 30females to breed, but he wasn't in a shape I'd liked him to be before winter so had to separate him from the herd and give him some meal to put some weight back on. He got around 25females to breed and was sold in fall to another farm. By the fall he didn't looked the same as in spring. On the contrary, had another bull bought at 13months age from another farm. He was pretty small for his age, got just abit of meal after weaning. We weren't feeding much of meal at that time too, so he was growing slower and had hardly any fat when we let him out with cows, but he lost more weight only on his first year. Then he would naturally would put some fat during winter, then loose it during summer, but would still look great, with nice muscles. He had to cover the same amount of cows as another one, but did way better at keeping his weight and he didn't needed any extra supplementing. [/QUOTE]
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