do ye still have bull/s with cows?

whelan1

taking mine out next week....not many in heat this last few weeks and being nosey what breed is your bull:o mines a br/fr

case 5150

mine lad coming out from cows 1st august and he is a hereford, Friesian came out today from heifers

Timmaay

Lm with the cows, and a young HE bullock with the heifers. Considering I'm under quota, and we had quite afew late calvers, i might just leave the LM in with the cows for a good few more weeks 2bh. I'm culling afew of the late calvers, but some of the late calvers have no issue other wrong with them, so going to try just pull them back from caving in june/july this year to may next, and will stick out the winter milk another year. Hard to know if I'm only annoying myself doing this I'll admit, long term compact feb calving is most certainly the target.

dar31

bulls coming out in the morning, fr bulls running with everything.
out a week earlier than last year.
will see how it goes with repeats and scanning in a months time, might not calve anything in may for spring 15, calving interval is down to 376 days

mf240

whenever I see a cow bulling I AI her. Whenever they calve I milk them. Organised chaos.

grazeaway

Leave the bull with the sucklers all the time, keeps him happy and easier to manage.

loveta

leave the bull with the cows "he is a AA" not much on these days let him bull away and decide what to do with when i scan in September .

blue5000

Still in here and no plans to take them out yet. Only started mid May so will be Sept at least before I take them out.

Cull cows are dropping fast, a lot of sucklers I reckon are being culled so I think this time next year cattle might be scarce and I could off load late calvers with a calf at foot. But next year who knows WTF will happen:eek:

manjou

Angus bull with cows and shorthorn with heifers.Will leave angus bull with cows with bull calves when seperating bull and heifer calves next week just to keep him quiet.Will leave shorthorn with heifers as all are bulled so wont make much difference.Usually find that anything not in calf at this stage wont go in calf as bulls out since may 2nd so have had lots of time.

kevthegaff

Fr with the cows and Norwegian red with the heifers, pullling them next week, gona try to get calving earlier 2 weeks for the nxt 2 years

case 5150

kevthegaff wrote: »

Fr with the cows and Norwegian red with the heifers, pullling them next week, gona try to get calving earlier 2 weeks for the nxt 2 years

do you Ai Kev and if so for how long

kevthegaff

case 5150 wrote: »

do you Ai Kev and if so for how long

no not yet gona start next year, have to do the course

mahoney_j

kevthegaff wrote: »

no not yet gona start next year, have to do the course

Where u planning on doing bit Kev??thinkibg of doing it as well,

kevthegaff

mahoney_j wrote: »

Where u planning on doing bit Kev??thinkibg of doing it as well,

not sure, brother and friends done it in thurles methinks, i better look up about it. Ill probably ai the early calvers then run a hereford to clean up

Mulumpy

Finished AI on cows last week two weeks earlier than normal. Will cull any emptys at drying off

Mulumpy

kevthegaff wrote: »

not sure, brother and friends done it in thurles methinks, i better look up about it. Ill probably ai the early calvers then run a hereford to clean up

Cousin done it in Dovea this year found it excellent.