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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1360462" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Don't matter how good a bull he is, if he hurts the cows, he goes. An occasional misstep or something is one thing, but to "man-handle " a cow no thanks. We keep 6 to 10 bulls since we have so many different pastures that they go out to, and we cannot have bulls that want to constantly fight when we bring them back to the bull field. Usually have 5-6 out at any one time and we rent a couple out to neighbors with small 10-20 cow herds that really don't have a place to keep a bull when breeding season is over.. Don't need bad dispositioned bulls out on lease either. Had one that was great for 5-6 years then he decided that he wouldn't stay in with the cows, would get out and lay alongside the road and watch the cars go by. Everyone got a kick out of it but after putting him back in 4 times, we moved him home and then he took an attitude and wanted to push everyone around and we shipped him. Had a neighbor that had a rough bull, tore down the fence between the pastures, rammed our bull from the side while on a cow and broke his leg. Lost a real nice ,good bull. Disposition is a heritable trait, just ask some of the older dairy farmers. There was a holstein who was high strung and his daughters all had the same attitude. Good milker but ....We have too much money invested in each bull, and cannot afford to have them hurt each other or the cows. Don't want wimps, just not bad attitudes to us or the cows...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1360462, member: 25884"] Don't matter how good a bull he is, if he hurts the cows, he goes. An occasional misstep or something is one thing, but to "man-handle " a cow no thanks. We keep 6 to 10 bulls since we have so many different pastures that they go out to, and we cannot have bulls that want to constantly fight when we bring them back to the bull field. Usually have 5-6 out at any one time and we rent a couple out to neighbors with small 10-20 cow herds that really don't have a place to keep a bull when breeding season is over.. Don't need bad dispositioned bulls out on lease either. Had one that was great for 5-6 years then he decided that he wouldn't stay in with the cows, would get out and lay alongside the road and watch the cars go by. Everyone got a kick out of it but after putting him back in 4 times, we moved him home and then he took an attitude and wanted to push everyone around and we shipped him. Had a neighbor that had a rough bull, tore down the fence between the pastures, rammed our bull from the side while on a cow and broke his leg. Lost a real nice ,good bull. Disposition is a heritable trait, just ask some of the older dairy farmers. There was a holstein who was high strung and his daughters all had the same attitude. Good milker but ....We have too much money invested in each bull, and cannot afford to have them hurt each other or the cows. Don't want wimps, just not bad attitudes to us or the cows... [/QUOTE]
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