Mob mating bulls

[unlacedgecko]

Anyone do this with beef cattle in U.K.?

 

[Farmer Fin]

Anyone do this with beef cattle in U.K.?

Not really the done thing over here due to field sizes. Need larger areas and bulls which are kept together since youngsters to really work well. Downside can be several bulls serving the same cow which is inefficient and if the dominant bull becomes infertile you can still end up with plenty of empty cows! 1 bull per batch and rotate the bulls seems to be the most efficient for getting sucklers in calf.

 

[Long Croft Farming]

Charlie Walker, near Duns, Scottish Borders.........3 bulls with 100plus cows. Seen this on Twitter

 

[Agrivator]

Anyone do this with beef cattle in U.K.?

Just a few pedigree breeders.

 

[som farmer]

750 dairy herd, near here, turn out 60 odd bulls at one go, braver man than me.

 

[Al R]

Know of a few spring calving herds running 15+ bulls and all put in with the cows

 

[som farmer]

you get some real xbreds, perhaps ought to put, multiserve on the p/p as sire !

 

[irish dom]

Scanned 200 contract reared heifers for a man last autumn. The farmer that owned them delivered 16 bulls on 1st April and brought them away 1st July. 50 odd dry heifers. Guy said the bulls never stopped fighting from when they came to when they left. He was more pee'd than the owner. Disaster

 

[Ribble]

He's not in the UK so it's not answering your question, but Johann Zietsman is an interesting chap, he says he measures fertility not by sperm count but by paternity test following a multi—sire season. Then that successful bull is used in AI.

He has some lectures on YouTube that I really enjoyed.

 

[shearerlad]

Charlie Walker, near Duns, Scottish Borders.........3 bulls with 100plus cows. Seen this on Twitter

Guy that I know runs 120 cows plus their calves in one mob with 4 Charolais bulls

 

[Samcowman]

Due to block sizes here run from 1-3 bulls with the cows. Where I run the 3 it should only really need 2 but often the cows split up there (60) and the spare bull may as well be covering some cows.

 

[puppet]

A neighbour runs 3 bulls though all the bulls winter out together so are used to each other. My experience of mixing bulls even without cows has involved injury and the knackery