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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1650061" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>At one time we left bulls in year around, mainly because we didn't have a good place to keep them away from the cows. For the last maybe 15-20 years we have pulled bulls after a certain amount of time. It was 90 days initially, but we have cut that to 60 days in the last 10 years. We put about 1 cow per month of age with our young bulls and up to 30 with older bulls. We separate the cattle so bulls are not in the same pasture or up against each other to prevent fighting and injuries like a broken penis. We preg. check and cull open cows about 45 days after bull removal. open. The open percentage was a little higher in the early years but we recently had a year with no opens, and usually don't have more than 5 or 6%. We usually only keep heifers born in the first 3 weeks although I have made some exceptions on cows that we missed AI, but who bred the first time to the bull. There are so many advantages to this. It gives us a nice uniform calf crop that can be sold as a group for more money and we are all done calving in about 2 months. I'm actually thinking of cutting this down to 45 days of bull turn out. Probably 95%+ of our calves are born within 45 days of the earliest expected birth dates anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1650061, member: 9933"] At one time we left bulls in year around, mainly because we didn’t have a good place to keep them away from the cows. For the last maybe 15-20 years we have pulled bulls after a certain amount of time. It was 90 days initially, but we have cut that to 60 days in the last 10 years. We put about 1 cow per month of age with our young bulls and up to 30 with older bulls. We separate the cattle so bulls are not in the same pasture or up against each other to prevent fighting and injuries like a broken penis. We preg. check and cull open cows about 45 days after bull removal. open. The open percentage was a little higher in the early years but we recently had a year with no opens, and usually don’t have more than 5 or 6%. We usually only keep heifers born in the first 3 weeks although I have made some exceptions on cows that we missed AI, but who bred the first time to the bull. There are so many advantages to this. It gives us a nice uniform calf crop that can be sold as a group for more money and we are all done calving in about 2 months. I’m actually thinking of cutting this down to 45 days of bull turn out. Probably 95%+ of our calves are born within 45 days of the earliest expected birth dates anyway. [/QUOTE]
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