My buddy put his cows and bull down on the riverbottoms. The landlord put in a dozen or so heifers a couple months later. This was part of the arrangement. A shortwhile later the bull is diagnosed with a "broken pecker" It appears to reel in and out fine and straight enough just swollen. Bull goes to town, landlord buys new bull and now that bull has exact same problem. My conclusion is that one of the heifers was a vegas streetwalker. What is your diagnosis? Also I have a Woodpecker cutting a whole in my log shed. Hence the Title.
Pecker Problems
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1982vett
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Shotgun for one, salebarn for the other.... 
Santas and Duhram Reds
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Lazy prepuce bulls? What is the forage in the bottom?
Lucky_P
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Nice little treatise on penile/preputial problems in bulls here: http://www.vin.com/proceedings/Proceedi ... &O=Generic
Back early in my career when I worked in an area dominated by Beefmasters and other Brahman-influenced breeds, I saw lots of preputial injuries - damage from all that loose, sloppy preputial tissue 'wadding up' as the bull tried to breed a cow, or from being stepped on, or cut on old pieces of rusty wire, etc. But, it isn't just eared cattle - we had one of our own Angus bulls damage his prepuce - don't know if it was a breeding injury or if it got lacerated on an old piece of fence wire, etc.
Back early in my career when I worked in an area dominated by Beefmasters and other Brahman-influenced breeds, I saw lots of preputial injuries - damage from all that loose, sloppy preputial tissue 'wadding up' as the bull tried to breed a cow, or from being stepped on, or cut on old pieces of rusty wire, etc. But, it isn't just eared cattle - we had one of our own Angus bulls damage his prepuce - don't know if it was a breeding injury or if it got lacerated on an old piece of fence wire, etc.
HEREFORD ROADHOG
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Whew , there for a second I thought I'd logged into some XXX site !!!!! :banana:
Lucky_P
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LOL! Yeah, I was surprised the 'firewall' on the computer at work even let me go there - I've had searches for various AI sires blocked because it classified them as 'pornography' - I guess because the word 'semen' was displayed somewhere that tripped a switch.
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The problem has spread. Another bull as well as the neighbors two bulls are showing exact same symptoms. I'm not real familiar with STD's (human or bovine) so anybody have any idea what is spreading around. The upside is that all of the cows that took AI should be safe.
Enviromental would sure be easier to fix but what would cause that? They are just out in a pasture that the old boy spends his spare time cleaning up the dead trees leveling out the bumps. Some sort of weed maybe?
