Taz
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hi everyone im new to your site! 
and neeed some advise
My husband has recently started working on a cattle property he has worked with cattle all his life in a feed lot/ fattening situation but not much in a breeding situation he came home disgusted the other day after the boss "tested" the propertys 30 bulls.
the reasons he was told this had to be done where to make sure the bull wanted to breed a cow?? :shock: to make sure the bull's hips could stand up to it :shock: and to make sure its penis wasnt broken! my reasoning is for starters its a bull of course it will mount a cow, if its hips are that bad why is it still a bull? and if something was wrong with its penis there would be an infection or it wouldnt retract or some way to tell other then making it mount a cow!
this was with cows that WERENT in season and hadnt been preg tested even though they had run with the bulls in the spring so there is every chance they are in calf!
there where 30 bulls and they used 6 head of cattle they ran the cows down a race and attached a headbale/crush to their heads the cow was then dragged by the crush into a yard they where terrifed they had never been in a head bail before let alone dragged around by one once 3 cows where in the yard they let in 3 bulls and left them in there until they had each raped one of the cows twice. in between mounting the cattle the bulls were fighting the risks to both them and the cows trapped by the crush's where huge the cows where falling over when the fighting bulls bashed into them and also when the bulls where mounting them they where falling down and fighting the crush trying to get away.
they put 10 bulls over each cow there was no control other then when the bull had not just mounted but actuallty penetreted the cow twice it was taken out of the yard. 1 of the bulls had an infected penis and was dripping pus but it was still allowed to penetrate cows twice, surely this would just spread the infection? and possibly make the cow, bull and whatever bulls penetrated her after it infertile?
i found this absoutly repolsive as did my husband i cant see a reason for it and have never heard of it before but then i dont know much about cattle!!
is there any need to "test" a bull? if so surely there is a much better way and the cows should be at least preg tested and in season????
and neeed some adviseMy husband has recently started working on a cattle property he has worked with cattle all his life in a feed lot/ fattening situation but not much in a breeding situation he came home disgusted the other day after the boss "tested" the propertys 30 bulls.
the reasons he was told this had to be done where to make sure the bull wanted to breed a cow?? :shock: to make sure the bull's hips could stand up to it :shock: and to make sure its penis wasnt broken! my reasoning is for starters its a bull of course it will mount a cow, if its hips are that bad why is it still a bull? and if something was wrong with its penis there would be an infection or it wouldnt retract or some way to tell other then making it mount a cow!
this was with cows that WERENT in season and hadnt been preg tested even though they had run with the bulls in the spring so there is every chance they are in calf!
there where 30 bulls and they used 6 head of cattle they ran the cows down a race and attached a headbale/crush to their heads the cow was then dragged by the crush into a yard they where terrifed they had never been in a head bail before let alone dragged around by one once 3 cows where in the yard they let in 3 bulls and left them in there until they had each raped one of the cows twice. in between mounting the cattle the bulls were fighting the risks to both them and the cows trapped by the crush's where huge the cows where falling over when the fighting bulls bashed into them and also when the bulls where mounting them they where falling down and fighting the crush trying to get away.
they put 10 bulls over each cow there was no control other then when the bull had not just mounted but actuallty penetreted the cow twice it was taken out of the yard. 1 of the bulls had an infected penis and was dripping pus but it was still allowed to penetrate cows twice, surely this would just spread the infection? and possibly make the cow, bull and whatever bulls penetrated her after it infertile?
i found this absoutly repolsive as did my husband i cant see a reason for it and have never heard of it before but then i dont know much about cattle!!
is there any need to "test" a bull? if so surely there is a much better way and the cows should be at least preg tested and in season????
