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Letting the bull run with the herd
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1586024" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>I am a strong believer of NOT leaving a bull in with herd, but I have a complete health program and it would absolutely be a nightmare to try to vaccinate cattle properly if they were calving year around.</p><p>Having said that, if you are comfortable having a calf "whenever", it is the least management system you can have leaving the bull with the herd. But, you need to be diligent in pulling HEIFERS at 6 months of age and never let them back near a bull until they are old enough/ big enough to be getting pregnant. </p><p>So, one way or another, you have to have the ability to keep BULL away from weaned heifers, or BULL away from herd.</p><p>In the system of letting a bull breed all the time, you will have cows calve in 10 months occasionally. It will either make them or break them. Some can handle it, holding their weight, others will be fertile myrtles and breed right back, but will be a rack of bones. They will cull themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1586024, member: 968"] I am a strong believer of NOT leaving a bull in with herd, but I have a complete health program and it would absolutely be a nightmare to try to vaccinate cattle properly if they were calving year around. Having said that, if you are comfortable having a calf "whenever", it is the least management system you can have leaving the bull with the herd. But, you need to be diligent in pulling HEIFERS at 6 months of age and never let them back near a bull until they are old enough/ big enough to be getting pregnant. So, one way or another, you have to have the ability to keep BULL away from weaned heifers, or BULL away from herd. In the system of letting a bull breed all the time, you will have cows calve in 10 months occasionally. It will either make them or break them. Some can handle it, holding their weight, others will be fertile myrtles and breed right back, but will be a rack of bones. They will cull themselves. [/QUOTE]
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