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Central, IA | I turn in bulls end of May and don't take them out until the next January or February. I let them with the cows to run stalks in the winter and don't have to worry about a seperate pen for them but only a couple months out of the year (Feb thru May) I guess that I am really lazy........ But I feel I can defend myself on that. We preg check all cows in November, anything that is open gets sold, and anything that pregs "late" gets looked at close whether she is kept or not. I still can run a 60 to 75 day calving window this way. Start calving March 1st. When May X rolls around and I do not have a calf on the ground when they go out to pasture....Cow ether gets sold as a P3 bred, or kept in the lot if she is showing and sold as a pair when the calf comes.
I don't think that it is a matter of how long you run your bulls. It is a matter of if you preg check, and what you say your end calving date is going to be. | |
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How long do you leave your bulls in?
