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<blockquote data-quote="js1234" data-source="post: 1380441" data-attributes="member: 17596"><p>It all has to come together to make a bull that is going to cover the country, go find the hot cows and the semen works when he gets there. </p><p>I won't buy a bull that doesn't have good feet, good legs and wants to work. Infact, I've not bought many bulls because they seemed too docile. Nothing disgusts me more than driving into a field where we have say 10 bulls kicked out with 200 cows on 3,000 acres and 8 of the 10 bulls are laying around in the round in the flat waiting for a cow to find them while 2 bulls run themselves ragged trying to bred a couple hundred cows. Best semen test in the world won't help that. However, semen tests are crucial and if not performed prior to purchase and before every season thereafter, the rancher is knowingly operating with a question mark. Given costs of testing versus the cost of a 50% breed up, makes zero sense not to.</p><p>We are starting to see docility scores in bulls. I was just telling one of our bull suppliers who sells us 15-20 bulls a year that this "stat" concerns me. We run on big country and the cowboys ride out every morning, I doth wan dangerous cattle or cattle that are so goofy they don't perform well. That said, many of his docility score 1's (gentlest) seemed frankly dopey to me and many of his 4's (wildest that they will sell, scale goes to 5 but 5's are beefed) handled the way a bull that is going to go work for a living ought to handle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="js1234, post: 1380441, member: 17596"] It all has to come together to make a bull that is going to cover the country, go find the hot cows and the semen works when he gets there. I won't buy a bull that doesn't have good feet, good legs and wants to work. Infact, I've not bought many bulls because they seemed too docile. Nothing disgusts me more than driving into a field where we have say 10 bulls kicked out with 200 cows on 3,000 acres and 8 of the 10 bulls are laying around in the round in the flat waiting for a cow to find them while 2 bulls run themselves ragged trying to bred a couple hundred cows. Best semen test in the world won't help that. However, semen tests are crucial and if not performed prior to purchase and before every season thereafter, the rancher is knowingly operating with a question mark. Given costs of testing versus the cost of a 50% breed up, makes zero sense not to. We are starting to see docility scores in bulls. I was just telling one of our bull suppliers who sells us 15-20 bulls a year that this "stat" concerns me. We run on big country and the cowboys ride out every morning, I doth wan dangerous cattle or cattle that are so goofy they don't perform well. That said, many of his docility score 1's (gentlest) seemed frankly dopey to me and many of his 4's (wildest that they will sell, scale goes to 5 but 5's are beefed) handled the way a bull that is going to go work for a living ought to handle. [/QUOTE]
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