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<blockquote data-quote="TominTX" data-source="post: 1688264" data-attributes="member: 28120"><p>I have some experience here. When I started out, I had 21 2 year old heifers. I rented a bull for 60 days. The bull was vet checked and healthy. Towards the end of the 60 days I called the guy I had rented from (he was reputable, and had supplied several neighbors with both cows and bulls.) I told him that I had not noticed much action and he told me to go ahead and keep him an extra couple of weeks.</p><p></p><p>At about the 80 day point, I returned the bull and hoped for the best. I only had about a 60% calf crop that year. Not really sure what happened. The next year, the neighbors bull jumped the fence and the neighbor (who's cows were all heavy bred) asked me if I minded keeping him for a month or two. I of course obliged him. Then, when the bull when home, I forked out the cash and purchased a young one one and turned him in as a clean up bull that year. We had I had 1 cow that didn't get bred and one that lost the calf during her first calving. 19 healthy...</p><p></p><p>If you're running 5 or 6 cows or less. Renting is probably a good idea, but maybe ask if you can keep him a little longer and preg. check them quickly after you return the bull... If it's more than that, it's worth buying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TominTX, post: 1688264, member: 28120"] I have some experience here. When I started out, I had 21 2 year old heifers. I rented a bull for 60 days. The bull was vet checked and healthy. Towards the end of the 60 days I called the guy I had rented from (he was reputable, and had supplied several neighbors with both cows and bulls.) I told him that I had not noticed much action and he told me to go ahead and keep him an extra couple of weeks. At about the 80 day point, I returned the bull and hoped for the best. I only had about a 60% calf crop that year. Not really sure what happened. The next year, the neighbors bull jumped the fence and the neighbor (who's cows were all heavy bred) asked me if I minded keeping him for a month or two. I of course obliged him. Then, when the bull when home, I forked out the cash and purchased a young one one and turned him in as a clean up bull that year. We had I had 1 cow that didn't get bred and one that lost the calf during her first calving. 19 healthy... If you're running 5 or 6 cows or less. Renting is probably a good idea, but maybe ask if you can keep him a little longer and preg. check them quickly after you return the bull... If it's more than that, it's worth buying. [/QUOTE]
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