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Anyone use more than one bull at once?
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- Thread starter unlacedgecko
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I'd be interested to hear of anyone using 4 or 5 bulls in a single mob of cows.
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Use 3 together it's ok if they are not evenly matched,usually put a big sim in with a blue and a young trainee.they usually only fight if they think they stand a chance! It also makes calving interesting you never know what's coming
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5 bulls of one breed with 100 cows. Do able?
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Friend puts multiple Angus bulls in with his dairy herd once he's ai'd what he wants for replacements. 5 or 6 in with 300ish cows I think?
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I normally run 2 bulls at a time, swap them every 12 hours, all Herefords
Yes but 5 would be a fair overkill
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- Montgomeryshire
Dad regularly used to AI repeat breeders with straws from several different bulls if that counts, like a low tech version of the ‘fertility plus’ semen that most companies were selling at the time. It was always a bit of a lottery as to what arrived at the other end, but conception rates were certainly improved on some very stubborn breeders.
Presumably you’d get the same effect from several bulls breeding with one cow?
Presumably you’d get the same effect from several bulls breeding with one cow?
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I want a tight calving pattern.
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I have a mate who runs 350 cows in 3 mobs rotation grazing. I think he runs 3 bulls on each mob never heard of any issues
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- Owaka, New Zealand
We will next month
Our cells are .08ha, can't see it being any issue
So yes, def doing it wrong
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- Romney Marsh
To many for too fewer cows.
I would expect some fighting or a cow being damaged.
.......... but give it a go and report back.
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- Aberdeenshire
Not saying there is a correct approach. Negative to having multiple bulls in a group is the pecking order and fighting. There is some evidence they are more likely to serve the same cows, so less efficient. If you have a dominant bull who is a Jaffa you will still have empty cows. I think for multiples bull groups to work you need lots of space and bulls who are reared together and stay together all year.
The counter to this is why we do single sire and swap through the season.
The counter to this is why we do single sire and swap through the season.
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Yes I wondered this - could be counter productive having too many.
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- somerset
up to this year, we run our bulls together, they sort their selves out , to establish a pecking order, and usually works well, as dairy, we do swap them round daily. As an experiment, this year, after our dairy AI, we used 2 straws of beef, AA and BB per cow, will be interesting to see the result. This year, we have had bull disasters, 2 went down with TB, we lost 2 young bulls to a freak accident, and, because of this, we kept 1 we should not have done, he simply got nastier, and noisier, by the day, so he stayed for 1st 3 weeks, and outed, luckily, the remaining Hereford, hasn't had to much to do, as we have a pretty tight calving pattern !
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Not exactly what the OP is asking, but seem to remember a photo in the Scottish Farmer a few years back with a set of triplet calves that looked very clearly one each of limousin, simmental and charolais.