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Should I steer him or keep my beefmaster a bull?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1402996" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>If he were mine I would make him a steer. Since he is on a bottle, I would maybe wait a little while, to band or cut, to make sure that he gets started and is over the stress of his birth. As others have already said, the 94 lbs. BW, and the heifer not milking are both strikes against him being used as a breeding animal. For me disposition is another factor. I had a Charolais bull calf that the cow didn't claim and I raised him on a bottle. I left him intact, and not only was he behind the other bulls in terms of size and quality he had no fear of people and was very aggressive by 1 year old. He was just as aggressive as dairy bulls, and I ended up selling him as a feeder anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1402996, member: 24816"] If he were mine I would make him a steer. Since he is on a bottle, I would maybe wait a little while, to band or cut, to make sure that he gets started and is over the stress of his birth. As others have already said, the 94 lbs. BW, and the heifer not milking are both strikes against him being used as a breeding animal. For me disposition is another factor. I had a Charolais bull calf that the cow didn't claim and I raised him on a bottle. I left him intact, and not only was he behind the other bulls in terms of size and quality he had no fear of people and was very aggressive by 1 year old. He was just as aggressive as dairy bulls, and I ended up selling him as a feeder anyway. [/QUOTE]
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