Home raised bulls

[Big Muddy rancher]

These bull are April and may calves that we grow out . They get mostly hay and some grain/pulse/grain screening pellets. No clipping at this joint. We don't push them very hard and most of them get used as 2yr olds.
The first three are Sitz Alliance sons

These next 2 are sons of OCC Magnum

Easy to see why I don't get asked to take bull sale pictures.

 

[PureCountry]

They certainly haven't been pushed. They look alright to me. It's a funny thing about honest cattle in their working clothes - they may not look like the ones you see in fancy brochures, or draped in ribbons and banners at the shows, but they'll be around years later, still earning their keep in those same working clothes while the show cows have been shipped. :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I like bulls with hair and nuts.

We just culled 10 out of the pen. We eye ball them but then we scrotal measure . No sense in keeping something that won't make the grade later on. They have grown up pretty good this winter. I should have taken some shots from the top line. They are fairly thick topped.

 

[Mike]

What percentage of "Yak" are these? :lol:

Seriously, go ahead and have their semen checked now to keep the grief down later. Most times 5-10% of bulls will have a lower than needed/wanted viable semen production. While you're at it check the pelvic measurements and cull the real small (below an approx average) sizes............... Just my 2 cents.

 

[per]

Clean em, clip em, feed em fat and move you calving date to Jan 1 and you could be a purebred guy when you get big. Look good BMR. Funny how Angus can put on so much hair. My dad made that comment here just yesterday.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Mike, Not many of these guys will fail the semen test. I have had very good results. We measured them as a tool for culling and these guys mostly measured 34-36 cm and they are not yet a year old.I have been complimented many times on how my bulls all have good scrotal measures.
If they are used this year it won't be until late June or July. I usually hold some back until near the end of the first cycle then turn some yearlings out to perk things up.

 

[WyomingRancher]

You take good pics . Your bulls seem to be growing out good on their own. Unpushed, coming-twos are what we bought this year, and I have hopes they'll last us a while. I figure if they look good on minimal feed, imagine what their daughter will do .

 

[Soapweed]

Nice bulls, Big Muddy. They will do nothing but get bigger and better, as they do the job which Nature and you intended for them to do. Four or five years down the road when you sell them by the pound, they will look just as lovely and weigh just as much as the "high dollar" bulls selling now. Look at all the money you've saved in the meantime. Good job.

 

[Anonymous]

Limestone Darkhorse U322
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If you'd give them bulls a little cleaning, a trim job, and a $140,000 price tag on them- they could hold their heads up like this fella... :wink: :lol:
Altho I doubt he'd make it one loop around the pasture- where those boys will....They look good Big Muddy....
I saw some pricey bulls sell on Superior the other day that were so fat they'd have a heart attack or melt away after the first heifer chase..

My two year old bulls are actually too fat for my liking- and all they've had is grass hay all winter...I need to get them on grass so they can get some more exercise...

 

[theony]

I like your bulls, my kind of cattle, Those guys will cover ground and cows.