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<blockquote data-quote="bandit80" data-source="post: 593295" data-attributes="member: 7956"><p>Good question with a lot of answers. Those in the business to sell breeding stock cull very strictly. Fact is, not every bull calf should be a herd sire and not every heifer should turn into a cow. </p><p></p><p>The way I do it may or may not be right, but it works for me. If the calf is out of an AI sire, has an acceptable birth weight, and it out of a good cow, then I will leave him intact until weaning time. I do not keep any bulls intact that are out of my clean up bulls, they get banded at birth. This is simply because I want to sell the best possible genetics, and my herd bulls are good bulls, but they are not AI quality bulls. </p><p></p><p>At weaning, I re-evaluate the bull calves, and cull for undesirable phenotype, poor performance, under developed testicles, etc. </p><p></p><p>I then feed them through the winter on a high forage ration, and review again as long yearlings. Normally if they have made it this far they will be OK, but you will have some that don't develop like you wanted or will develop a feet/leg problem that you didn't/couldn't see before. Mine then get sent to a test and get marketed as 18 month old bulls in the fall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bandit80, post: 593295, member: 7956"] Good question with a lot of answers. Those in the business to sell breeding stock cull very strictly. Fact is, not every bull calf should be a herd sire and not every heifer should turn into a cow. The way I do it may or may not be right, but it works for me. If the calf is out of an AI sire, has an acceptable birth weight, and it out of a good cow, then I will leave him intact until weaning time. I do not keep any bulls intact that are out of my clean up bulls, they get banded at birth. This is simply because I want to sell the best possible genetics, and my herd bulls are good bulls, but they are not AI quality bulls. At weaning, I re-evaluate the bull calves, and cull for undesirable phenotype, poor performance, under developed testicles, etc. I then feed them through the winter on a high forage ration, and review again as long yearlings. Normally if they have made it this far they will be OK, but you will have some that don't develop like you wanted or will develop a feet/leg problem that you didn't/couldn't see before. Mine then get sent to a test and get marketed as 18 month old bulls in the fall. [/QUOTE]
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