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ture, younger bulls have a high “mount- to-service” ratio — they spend more time jumping the cows than they do actually breed- ing them. This leads to wasted energy and in- effi ciency in breeding, so paying attention to body condition at the start of their fi rst sea- son is vital. Older bulls are more
Older bulls are effi cient. Make sure they have good
locomotion, no problems seeing and are in good physical shape.
efficient. The impor- tant thing is to make sure the bull has good loco- motion, no problems seeing and that he is in good physical shape. Running bulls together prior to the season will also
allow them to establish a social hierarchy. It reduces the risk of fi ghting and injury. If animals unfamiliar with each other are abruptly placed together during the breeding season a lot of bull power is wasted. For that reason, Spire discourages running old bulls and young bulls together, preferring instead to match groups by weight, size and age. Unlike older bulls, 2-year-olds are still putting on
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Barbara Livingston 713-632-1331 Offi ce 832-265-2673 Cell
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weight and need to be on a higher plane of nutrition from the time that they are pulled off after their fi rst breeding seasons. “I don’t like to overwork young bulls,” Spire says. “In some situations, depending on the pasture, we can run old bulls in a 1:40 male-to- female ratio. With younger bulls, we tone that down to about a 1:25 ratio.” He prefers to pull 2-year-olds off the cows after 60
days, but no more than 90 days, by which point they will have lost quite a bit of weight. Spire says, “If we run from the spring breeding sea-
son into the summer grass, the nutritional quality of those grasses goes down. We have lower protein and energy in those forages, and those bulls just aren’t go- ing to condition well on them. “This will limit the amount of breeding season in
which we’re running them. Get them in where you can start conditioning and managing them as a group again to get them up to where they need to be when they become 3-year-olds. After 3 years of age, we can be a little more frugal with them on nutrition than we are with younger animals.”
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