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hiring a bull???

  • 31-05-2014 2:56pm
    #1
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    Anyone here do it?
    I've a dairy neighbour who takes the bull from the cows in August which would fit in grand as I only start breeding then.
    It's a win win as it takes the bull out if his hair for 10 weeks, he gets a few quid and I get the use of a well bred bull for my 10 weeks...
    Only down side is disease and injury...
    Any thoughts appreciated;-)


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  • #2
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭locky76


    we would be doing movement certs and pre and post tests to keep it legit...


  • #3
    exercise is the antidote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭exercise is the antidote


    I'm not sure but I think the way you go about hiring a bull is from someone who does it as a business? But I could be wrong...


  • #4
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    locky76 wrote: »
    Anyone here do it?
    I've a dairy neighbour who takes the bull from the cows in August which would fit in grand as I only start breeding then.
    It's a win win as it takes the bull out if his hair for 10 weeks, he gets a few quid and I get the use of a well bred bull for my 10 weeks...
    Only down side is disease and injury...
    Any thoughts appreciated;-)



    as long as he TB tested and BR test before he moves it should be grand.. best to be above board and do it right.


    just in case he breaks his leg id have a verbal figure agreed with neighbour for the worst case scenario... your insurance company will probably have him covered should this happen(movement cert to prove he is yours at the time) but id as always ring them and be sure


  • #5
    Future Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭Future Farmer


    BVD? IBR? Johne's?

    What happens if you get locked up before the bull gets back or vice-versa?

    Prefer a closed herd myself, far safer.


  • #6
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,224 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Would it not be better to buy a bull and sell it when finished with him


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  • #7
    Future Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭Future Farmer


    Or AI?


  • #8
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    I leased a bull around 2000. I got fed up watching cows for AI so took the plunge. I paid £250 for him, he was lazy and the owner didn't want to hear about it. Anyway he bulled the cows eventually and fattened up on grass as well as it turned out there were only 5 cows not gone incalf to AI :(

    Looking back what I should have done was scan the cows and use PRID on the ones that were not incalf. The calves off the bull were weak and some of them lame but they came round. The following year your man that I leased the bull off kept hounding me to take another bull he wanted to land him in the yard without my permission at one stage :mad: I suppose he thought that I would pay him to fatten another bull for him.


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