Show me your herd bull

[M.Magis]

Not good pics but all I have. Took these a few days before he took a ride. 6 years old if I recall.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Great looking bull. Wow is he long ....WITH great muscling.

 

[crossbredcalves]

Nice long RA bull, but I'd like to see him stouter - deeper with more rear quarter.

I agree. He definitely has his faults, but he has done a good job with my commercial, cross-bred mix of cows: (Charolais X, Jersey, and Longhorn crosses). I have a friend using him right now on her group of Charolais cross cows.

 

[Silver]

Bought this little crossbred fella on Friday for delivery in the spring. Hopefully he makes fits in as a "herd bull" in the future

 

[kenny thomas]

Pretty nice for a 10 month old calf

 

[Silver]

Pretty nice for a 10 month old calf

I think about 7 months or so in the pic. Looks more like a bull now. I always look forward to seeing how these bulls we buy at this time of year look when they get delivered in April.

 

[kenny thomas]

It shows his 10 month weight at 1030 is why I thought it was his age

 

[Travlr]

It shows his 10 month weight at 1030 is why I thought it was his age

I'm reading it as eight months at 1030.

February 22 to October 22?

 

[kenny thomas]

I'm reading it as eight months at 1030.

February 22 to October 22?

Well heck. I'm still wrong. If it's 8 months that's huge

 

[Silver]

Well heck. I'm still wrong. If it's 8 months that's huge

Right, 240 days at weaning. But I think the pic was taken prior to weaning because we don't have green grass Oct 12

 

[Hoser]

The boys back in August.

 

[TCRanch]

Bought this little crossbred fella on Friday for delivery in the spring. Hopefully he makes fits in as a "herd bull" in the future
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Wow, he's stout!

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

Our Bull ,;:!!

 

[Silver]

Our Bull ,;:!!

What a tank!

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

This is the neighbor's bull that lived here so we used him. He was a homebred bull named The Specimen. Here he is at around 20 years old, blind in one eye. They sold him for meat this year but he sure made them a lot of calves. I bred him to my Jersey.


Here is a poem I wrote about bulls

Bulls are great big guys
They have many flies
They whack flies with their tails
'Bout 50 of 'em die.

Bulls are important guys
They have many wives
They got to keep 'em all pregnant
or else they loose their lives.

Some some bulls live in a pen
With others of their kin
Cowboys come to buy 'em
to make more just like him.

Some bulls stay where they are
They do it in a jar
It gets shipped around
To cows both near and far,

Onto a scale you guide
To weigh him for his size
He poops upon his tail
And flings it is your eyes.

 

[tsellars]

New bull, he started work on 11/27.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I don't know how you guys can call this work.

 

[50/50Farms]

I don't know how you guys can call this work.

The more active component of the process can become strenuous, rest assured.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

But it's fun. "Oh boy I get to go to work".

And bulls do not spend a whole lot of time in the actual mating process.

 

[50/50Farms]

It's got to be some amount of strain, I've seen 'em lose weight doing it.

And yes, I know they don't make an evening of it, ma'am. I've watched more than a few fill their function.