Hire Bulls: what it should cost.

[flyonthewall]

Hoping someone can help on this one. Not having hired in a bull before what should it cost? Need two for around six weeks to assist our bull seeing to 130 sucklers.

 

[devonbeef]

.I Pay £50 a week. Test done by hirer.Go s back within test time.

 

[Beames]

Normally charge £40 a week for an Angus and we say normally to keep for 9 weeks to allow cows 3 cycles. Send Tb tested and if he doesn’t Come back with in the 60 days, hirer to Tb test before return.

 

[Bootneck]

50 quid a week plus all he can eat!

 

[som farmer]

dairy herd close to us, imported a nasty sexually transmitted disease through his herd, took several yrs of AI only, before he could use a bull again. If one of ours, has a 'holiday', gets a big dose of a/b, before he gets anywhere near our cows, his, passed through the cows, to their calves, that a/b, is a very cheap insurance.

 

[flyonthewall]

Thanks, well agreed £200 for six weeks for a shorthorn to help our Hereford owing 130 sucklers. Hope he does the trick!

 

[Cowcalf]

best way of spreading available disease

 

[Farmer Fin]

dairy herd close to us, imported a nasty sexually transmitted disease through his herd, took several yrs of AI only, before he could use a bull again. If one of ours, has a 'holiday', gets a big dose of a/b, before he gets anywhere near our cows, his, passed through the cows, to their calves, that a/b, is a very cheap insurance.

Takes more than 1 jab to clear a bull of campy!!!

 

[som farmer]

Takes more than 1 jab to clear a bull of campy!!!

know where our bull went, so not so worried, but a bottle of la a/b is cheap insurance, for anything else. Took the dairy involved, years to sort it, it was AI only, till hfrs clear, then a clean bull for them, but yrs for the rest.

 

[AftonShepherd]

Thanks, well agreed £200 for six weeks for a shorthorn to help our Hereford owing 130 sucklers. Hope he does the trick!

Am I the only one that thinks 2 bulls over 130 cows in 6 weeks is ambitious?

 

[Timbo]

Am I the only one that thinks 2 bulls over 130 cows in 6 weeks is ambitious?

Very

 

[tr250]

Am I the only one that thinks 2 bulls over 130 cows in 6 weeks is ambitious?

It’s only 43 to each bull because he’s already got one and wants two more

 

[AftonShepherd]

It’s only 43 to each bull because he’s already got one and wants two more

The following quote suggests he has only added one to his existing one. That makes two in my book.

Thanks, well agreed £200 for six weeks for a shorthorn to help our Hereford owing 130 sucklers. Hope he does the trick!

 

[tr250]

The following quote suggests he has only added one to his existing one. That makes two in my book.

Sorry I took the opening post to mean he was hiring 2 to add to his existing bull.

 

[som farmer]

all depends on how tight he wants his calving pattern, the tighter he wants it, the more ball power he needs

 

[ollie989898]

Takes more than 1 jab to clear a bull of campy!!!

The TB risk around here would put me off completely.

 

[Guiggs]

Even free I'd suggest it would be too much, how much would any one of the many diseases he could potentially spread to your heard cost you?

 

[Farmer Fin]

The TB risk around here would put me off completely.

It’s a massive no no as far as I’m concerned.

 

[AftonShepherd]

Sorry I took the opening post to mean he was hiring 2 to add to his existing bull.

Reading back, that is what he said. I'd just replied to the quoted text - didn't mean to seem grumpy lol.

Looks like he wanted 2 but got 1 (so far)

 

[AftonShepherd]

A previous manager here hired a bull to replace a lame one with a batch of heifers. Owner decided to keep them isolated from then on and all were sold in calf.

Good bull and no reason not to trust the owner of the bull but a big risk to take.