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<blockquote data-quote="Chris H" data-source="post: 1251848" data-attributes="member: 1974"><p>Sell the bull next sale day. Even with a low libido you should at least have all cows with a calf even if they're strung out in stages of pregnancy.</p><p></p><p>Our current bull is also 3. I hardly ever saw him breed a cow the first season, and he had a few more than you have. Instead of using the blood test which would say bred or not bred, we had the vet out to preg check that fall. All bred, in good time. Did the same thing last year, I saw a little more action but just saw a few covered. We had the vet do preg checks last fall again. This spring we had 28 calves in the first 21 days. I had held some heifers back to get a little more size before breeding, and we had some stragglers, they are finishing up now. We will have about 40 calves from him by the end of June. The June calves are from some cows that were fall calvers, dropped calves in July last year because they got bred less than 3 weeks after calving, and moved earlier for this year.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, unless you're with the herd 24/7, you can miss a lot of breedings. But if you don't have pregnancies, something is not getting done. It sounds like your vet knows your herd, what was his advice?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris H, post: 1251848, member: 1974"] Sell the bull next sale day. Even with a low libido you should at least have all cows with a calf even if they're strung out in stages of pregnancy. Our current bull is also 3. I hardly ever saw him breed a cow the first season, and he had a few more than you have. Instead of using the blood test which would say bred or not bred, we had the vet out to preg check that fall. All bred, in good time. Did the same thing last year, I saw a little more action but just saw a few covered. We had the vet do preg checks last fall again. This spring we had 28 calves in the first 21 days. I had held some heifers back to get a little more size before breeding, and we had some stragglers, they are finishing up now. We will have about 40 calves from him by the end of June. The June calves are from some cows that were fall calvers, dropped calves in July last year because they got bred less than 3 weeks after calving, and moved earlier for this year. Anyway, unless you're with the herd 24/7, you can miss a lot of breedings. But if you don't have pregnancies, something is not getting done. It sounds like your vet knows your herd, what was his advice? [/QUOTE]
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