Two bulls together full time

jamesy

Member
Location
Orkney
Interesting, pretty varied response so far.
What do people think is more risky?

A: Running 2 bulls together with 50+ cows for 12 weeks?

Or

B: Running 1 bull with 50+ cows for 12 weeks?
Ran two young bulls together with 35 cows other year and they’d grown up together and were fine. Have 4 bulls of various ages running together outdoors.
I’d imagine in a herd of 50 they’d both have enough to occupy themselves that they’d be fine
 

martian

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BASE UK Member
Location
N Herts
We bought a fairly evenly matched pair of young bulls from a breeder, ran them together without too much bother. They tussled occasionally to establish who was boss. Stuck them into a mob of 96 cows in the summer and they spent most of first week beating each other up. Eventually they remembered what they were meant to be doing and got on with it, after nine weeks 90 cows in calf. Shorthorns, sensible animals...
 

noagain

Member
Reared up two bulls for ourselves, Simmy 5 months older than Charly,Charly used to playfully torment bigger simmy all the time . After running with seperate cows then put back together when arond 25 + 20 months old . The charly would have killed the simmy if we hadn,t got him out.
 

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