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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 41194" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>The other option besides buying or leasing would be using A.I. on your cows. This will breed them up real quick. As somebody like yourself who runs cattle as a sideline, I would have difficulty finding time in the day to go with A.I. I don't know what rates to lease a bull down there would be. Up here its about $25 per cow for a decent bull to lease. I always like to own my bulls, though, that way you know that they've had their shots and been tested for trich etc. The downside is that if you are farming by yourself and something happens to your bull, like he loses his concept of fence, or comes up lame or breaks his Uno, you get to go buy a new bull. I've never leased but I imagine you would have some responsibility if it happened with a leased bull as well. To actually answer your question, though, I wouldn't put a bull out until he was at least 17 or 18 months old. It would depend on the number of cows, but if he's much younger than that he may come out of breeding season looking pretty rough. And yes a cow (I assume you mean heifer) in theory could be bred on her first cycle but I'd wait until they were at least 15 months and 800 lbs before I'd breed them because C-Sections are expensive and really don't do much for the look of your cows. All the best to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 41194, member: 245"] The other option besides buying or leasing would be using A.I. on your cows. This will breed them up real quick. As somebody like yourself who runs cattle as a sideline, I would have difficulty finding time in the day to go with A.I. I don't know what rates to lease a bull down there would be. Up here its about $25 per cow for a decent bull to lease. I always like to own my bulls, though, that way you know that they've had their shots and been tested for trich etc. The downside is that if you are farming by yourself and something happens to your bull, like he loses his concept of fence, or comes up lame or breaks his Uno, you get to go buy a new bull. I've never leased but I imagine you would have some responsibility if it happened with a leased bull as well. To actually answer your question, though, I wouldn't put a bull out until he was at least 17 or 18 months old. It would depend on the number of cows, but if he's much younger than that he may come out of breeding season looking pretty rough. And yes a cow (I assume you mean heifer) in theory could be bred on her first cycle but I'd wait until they were at least 15 months and 800 lbs before I'd breed them because C-Sections are expensive and really don't do much for the look of your cows. All the best to you. [/QUOTE]
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