Running bullocks with cows and calves

jd6110 · Jul 13, 2021

As title am splitting bull calves an heifer calves into separate batches as calves coming 6mths plus. To keep stocking numbers similar was wondering on running year an half old bullocks with bull calve group. plan on removing bull an all cows hopefully back n calf. Is there any potential problems by doin this?

Agrivator · Jul 14, 2021

None whatsoever. And in fact the bullocks will often identify any cow that comes on heat. And I can't see any reason why they couldn't run with the heifer calf group.

Werzle · Jul 14, 2021

Keep an eye out for them sucking and robbing the younger calves of milk

primmiemoo · Jul 14, 2021

Check for stags and rigs.

Bojangles · Jul 14, 2021

jd6110 said:
As title am splitting bull calves an heifer calves into separate batches as calves coming 6mths plus. To keep stocking numbers similar was wondering on running year an half old bullocks with bull calve group. plan on removing bull an all cows hopefully back n calf. Is there any potential problems by doin this?

Not if cows are all in calf but 16 month old bullocks may be a nightmare for a cow that happens to come on.

Running bullocks with cows and calves

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