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<blockquote data-quote="cowboy" data-source="post: 788610" data-attributes="member: 14781"><p>Kickinbull I agree acorns are a real problem and cows love them, I in past years have lost calves to acorns, bloody scours and urine. But the cows having problems now are not exposed to acorns.</p><p></p><p> Agmantoo I think I can help with your bull problem. Sounds like your buying young bulls, 18 months or so. Usually these bulls have been fed to the hilt as no one could sell a scrubby one. When you turn out these bulls with cows their nutrition is much less even more important they don't know how to bread cows. When a cow starts to come in they follow night and day trying to mount her hundreds of times where as a senior bull will be there when the time is right, bread the cow and is back eating in two seconds.</p><p> One thing you might try is only put the young bull out a week or two. Then get him up and feed him a good while. Keep older bull to bread most cows. Another way would be to only let the young bull have 8-10 cows his first season and give supplemental feed. Young bulls can miss many cows and let you down badly.Also I have found putting several young bulls with cows is no help.To much energy spent fighting ang following same cow when multipal cows are in heat. </p><p> One difference in our farms is I have to feed all winter. Also my ph and fertility is very high. Where is yours? Could this cause me problems?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowboy, post: 788610, member: 14781"] Kickinbull I agree acorns are a real problem and cows love them, I in past years have lost calves to acorns, bloody scours and urine. But the cows having problems now are not exposed to acorns. Agmantoo I think I can help with your bull problem. Sounds like your buying young bulls, 18 months or so. Usually these bulls have been fed to the hilt as no one could sell a scrubby one. When you turn out these bulls with cows their nutrition is much less even more important they don’t know how to bread cows. When a cow starts to come in they follow night and day trying to mount her hundreds of times where as a senior bull will be there when the time is right, bread the cow and is back eating in two seconds. One thing you might try is only put the young bull out a week or two. Then get him up and feed him a good while. Keep older bull to bread most cows. Another way would be to only let the young bull have 8-10 cows his first season and give supplemental feed. Young bulls can miss many cows and let you down badly.Also I have found putting several young bulls with cows is no help.To much energy spent fighting ang following same cow when multipal cows are in heat. One difference in our farms is I have to feed all winter. Also my ph and fertility is very high. Where is yours? Could this cause me problems? [/QUOTE]
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