New Bulls

New Bulls

When a bull has an accident it can be expensive, and new bulls can be prone to getting hurt.  I'm Jeff Keane; I'll be back after this short break to tell you about a few incidents.When animals have accidents it can be costly for owners. We just returned from a bull buying trip and put the new bulls in a corral to let them rest, relax, and fill back up again on good hay and a small amount of grain before they go with the cows. I was looking at them the other day and started thinking about some of the trials of getting new bulls accustomed to your place and the accidents I had seen or heard of. Fatal accidents are costly since the animal is gone and whatever improvement his off spring would have added to your herd goes with him.  Dad bought a nice Herford bull one year, brought him home and turned him out in a pasture just out from the house. A late season fog rolled in that day and the next day the bull was found dead at the bottom of a small bluff he had fell from. Neighbors had turned out one of their new bulls and when he jumped a small ditch his navigation system malfunctioned, he missed the opposite bank and broke his neck. One year, we bought five two-year-old bulls that had been raised together since they were weaned. We unloaded them in different parts of a large pasture. Within two days they found each other and stayed that way for about a week until we finally nailed up "bird and bees" manuals at the water holes. Our calf crop came a little later the next year and that cost some weight a weaning time. Turning out new bulls can be interesting and sometimes expensive.

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