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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1130903" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>Just my opinion but we'd never buy a bull that hadn't been given a BSE prior to purchase and it shouldn't be on the buyer to have to get it done - it's good practice for anyone selling bulls to have a BSE done prior to sale. We take our yearling bulls for sale as well as our herd bull to the vet each spring to get a BSE because not only do we want to guarantee the bulls we are selling are fertile but want to make sure the bull we are using ourselves is still fertile. Even if a bull was good the prior year a yearly BSE is smart to do because you never know if a bull might have injured himself or gone sterile for some odd reason during his downtime and I don't know of anyone that could afford to find it out too late when he has a bunch of cows come up open later.</p><p></p><p>And yes you could have a bull fail a BSE then pass it later, especially yearling bulls. Could be a number of things, either he's behind on his reproductive development plus they have not been sexually active yet so sometimes it takes another sample collection because the 1st one possibly contained old sperm cells and he needed to be stimulated more. Other factors could be nutrition or possibly any vaccinations or pours the bull recently had that could temporarily affect fertility while the drug is still in their system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1130903, member: 20580"] Just my opinion but we'd never buy a bull that hadn't been given a BSE prior to purchase and it shouldn't be on the buyer to have to get it done - it's good practice for anyone selling bulls to have a BSE done prior to sale. We take our yearling bulls for sale as well as our herd bull to the vet each spring to get a BSE because not only do we want to guarantee the bulls we are selling are fertile but want to make sure the bull we are using ourselves is still fertile. Even if a bull was good the prior year a yearly BSE is smart to do because you never know if a bull might have injured himself or gone sterile for some odd reason during his downtime and I don't know of anyone that could afford to find it out too late when he has a bunch of cows come up open later. And yes you could have a bull fail a BSE then pass it later, especially yearling bulls. Could be a number of things, either he's behind on his reproductive development plus they have not been sexually active yet so sometimes it takes another sample collection because the 1st one possibly contained old sperm cells and he needed to be stimulated more. Other factors could be nutrition or possibly any vaccinations or pours the bull recently had that could temporarily affect fertility while the drug is still in their system. [/QUOTE]
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