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Will a bull chase a cow even though she's already bred?
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<blockquote data-quote="Debbie Bullock" data-source="post: 641471" data-attributes="member: 10435"><p>You're right, there. We've had only three or four that we wound up selling. Didn't matter to us whether she was pregnant or not after two years in a row of not having one. My husband rarely allows a second strike, let alone a third. Sometimes it's just circumstances that will cause a cow to not get bred..bulls doing more fighting than breeding, thus missing that cow...especially if she's a hard cow to breed in the first place, cow gets sick or wormy, all sorts of one-time things that can cause it. We had one last year that we took to the sale. She'd missed getting bred one year because we only had one bull in there with so many cows..we finally found another bull to add and she didn't get bred then , either. I'll accept the fault the first time but the second time there was no reason for it that I could see. Then we had a big cow that started walking the fence and 'bulling' across the road to the cows in that pasture. She absolutely stayed at the fence -wandering up and down, up and down. We had two bulls and actually saw them both trying to breed her but she would move away from them. .. looked like she was more interested in the cows across the way. Loaded her up and dumped her in the sale barn. </p><p></p><p>Anyways, apprciate the input.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Debbie Bullock, post: 641471, member: 10435"] You're right, there. We've had only three or four that we wound up selling. Didn't matter to us whether she was pregnant or not after two years in a row of not having one. My husband rarely allows a second strike, let alone a third. Sometimes it's just circumstances that will cause a cow to not get bred..bulls doing more fighting than breeding, thus missing that cow...especially if she's a hard cow to breed in the first place, cow gets sick or wormy, all sorts of one-time things that can cause it. We had one last year that we took to the sale. She'd missed getting bred one year because we only had one bull in there with so many cows..we finally found another bull to add and she didn't get bred then , either. I'll accept the fault the first time but the second time there was no reason for it that I could see. Then we had a big cow that started walking the fence and 'bulling' across the road to the cows in that pasture. She absolutely stayed at the fence -wandering up and down, up and down. We had two bulls and actually saw them both trying to breed her but she would move away from them. .. looked like she was more interested in the cows across the way. Loaded her up and dumped her in the sale barn. Anyways, apprciate the input.:-) [/QUOTE]
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