Best teaser bull

jerdee

Had a limo/x turned into a herding sheepdog . Then turned on myself . Presently hanging for burgers. Find them very handy but is it possible to pick up quiet ones or somebody's else's trouble .

stanflt

jerdee wrote: »

Had a limo/x turned into a herding sheepdog . Then turned on myself . Presently hanging for burgers. Find them very handy but is it possible to pick up quiet ones or somebody's else's trouble .

Holstein bull are best

I know a man with 2 for sale

Yearlings I think he is selling them for 1250 and they come with a chin marker and paint

jerdee

neighbour swears by pedigree jerseys.....

Markcheese

jerdee wrote: »

neighbour swears by pedigree jerseys.....

Don't jersey bulls have serious attitude issues ? Kind of small bull syrdome -

stanflt

jerdee wrote: »

neighbour swears by pedigree jerseys.....

they can be very dangerous

Milked out

I'd prefer a bull you could see in the herd more easily also, jerseys could be behind a cow or in the middle of a few and you not see them. Have an small Angus stock bull here for mopping up and very hard to see where he is when the cows are in the yard. A hol / fr that would be best I'd say and could change every year or two depending on the bull for cull cost of the old one or raise your own if in dairy

Buford T. Justice XIX

I keep a Jersey x bull here but he has to go at the end of 2 years max. Have 2 kept this year and will keep one and sell the crosser/lazier of the two and replace each year hopefully.

Cross breds are supposed to be the best but i hate even keeping one bull on the farm not to mind 3:(

onyerbikepat

Use a late born weanling, maybe June/July and you'll knock two years out of him before he gets too big. I've done this twice and had no problems with them turning wicked.

jerdee

Bought the last lad at 6 months old got the vet to sort him out and then worked away for a few weeks then started herding then following year got cross .
Will try a different breed this time I think

frazzledhome

I would urge you not to keep a Jersey bull. Nasty feckers and that's the pleasant ones.

They are savage, they can't be seen in the herd and will sneak up on you.

The only breed at the old Spring show that had to have 2 handlers.

I'd prefer to keep a tiger

Mad4simmental

+1
5 nasty little fcuks at work only 300ish kg and they would nale you if they got a chance.

onyerbikepat

Would you not be better off with a suckler bull, raised under a cow and less likely to turn aggressive.

To further reduce the danger, dairies that use bulls should consider raising bull calves on a nurse cow. Raising bull calves on a nurse cow will imprint them more strongly to their own kind and further reduce the tendency to attack

Temple Grandin

http://www.grandin.com/behaviour/principles/preventing.bull.accidents.html

Greengrass1

Je nastey little bastards.
I've a weanling here from autumn. Never got to get rid of him.
He's trying to attack me already

Brown Podzol

jerdee wrote: »

neighbour swears by pedigree jerseys.....

Can you imagine the value of the calves if the snip wasn't performed correctly.:eek:

Dawggone

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Can you imagine the value of the calves if the snip wasn't performed correctly.:eek:

Think of the solids you would have two years down the road....made!!

jerdee

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Can you imagine the value of the calves if the snip wasn't performed correctly.:eek:

Pedigree jerangus ..........black with white muzzels

Greengrass1

Dawggone wrote: »

Think of the solids you would have two years down the road....made!!

Neighbour is real proud of his hols. Could ye imagine the crack if I had a je bull and he got in with them :D:D:D

Milked out

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Can you imagine the value of the calves if the snip wasn't performed correctly.:eek:

neighbour got caught with a black whitehead on his maiden dairy heifers, he wont chance em again cos of it

Brown Podzol

Milked out wrote: »

neighbour got caught with a black whitehead on his maiden dairy heifers, he wont chance em again cos of it

We're his bulls whiteheads and his heifers friesians.:p

just do it

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Would you not be better off with a suckler bull, raised under a cow and less likely to turn aggressive.

To further reduce the danger, dairies that use bulls should consider raising bull calves on a nurse cow. Raising bull calves on a nurse cow will imprint them more strongly to their own kind and further reduce the tendency to attack

Temple Grandin

http://www.grandin.com/behaviour/principles/preventing.bull.accidents.html

Only reducing the risk, not eliminating it. My suckler bred teaser has never been separate from the herd but has turned about 3-4 weeks ago at 2yo. Waiting on agent to have a look at him.

just do it

My current thinking is keep a late weaning, vasectomised him. Then once he's finished squeeze him and sell him at 18 months.