HDRider":2nxne7p9 said:
skyhightree1":2nxne7p9 said:
When I got my first cows at first didnt have enough to warrant having a bull the man I bought my cows from loaned me his bull. I know some people here that have maybe 5 head that buy a bull they think looks good at the sale barn lets them breed and after they are bred sell the bull back at the market.
Right... Makes sense.
It only makes sense if it has passed a recent BSE and has been tested clean for trich. Had in meighbor years ago that would buy a bull at the sale barn each year, ones that looked good to him and was cheap. I think the cheap part was his first concern since I wouldn;t have wasted the money on any of them he brought home. One year all of his cows aborted. Looking back I think the bull he bought probably had trich. He ended up one year with no calves and they were all late calving the following year sired by a guernsey longhorn cross. Don;t know if that was a residual from the first bull or something with the second one.