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Another way to bred cows.

alabama

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An Angus breeder that helped me get started years ago called yesterday afternoon needing some help. The mother of his herd bull did not take AI and was in standing heat and he wanted to turn her in with my bull. I said sure bring her on over. I was thinking that he would just put her in the pasture and come back after her in a week or so.
He showed up about an hour later and an hour before dark. Now this breeder halter breaks all his calves, he runs about 20 mommas, so all his cattle are halter broken. When he got to my place, he unloaded the cow in a halter, led her into the catch pin, and tied her. With all the excitement it only took a few minutes before the bull was snooping around. I opened the gate and let him in. We watched for about 15 minutes as the bull did his thing a few times. Then we loaded the cow and she went home.
 

Shorthornguy

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Dairy farmers years ago used to do that alot. When a cow needed the bull they would take the cow out of the stanction and put her in the bull pen while they did chores. When we started milking, I kept the bull in a stanction and let him out with the cows while we did chores and cleaned barn.
 

Frankk

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Same thing happened with me only the guy kept the cow on a long rope, unloaded in the pasture, one time with the bull and back in trailer. She calved nine month later.
 

Badlands

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This used to be the normal way things were done in many purebred herds. You have to realize that until the 1970's, a big purebred herd was about 150 head. The vast majority of purebred herds only had one or two bulls and maybe 40 cows for a lot of years. Many herds only had 25-30 cows and still had two bulls.

Not so much with the cow on the halter, but having the bull in his pen and bringing the cow to him.

If you have ever heard the term, "Putting the cow to the bull", that is what they were talking about originally.



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