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Most spend on a Bull?

$5000. Owned him for a month, he bred for 12 days and succumbed to larkspur, not insured as never had a bull problem before. That was before 2003. Much more careful with my money now. $4200. since and are insured for one year and avoid that pasture until fall.
 
Not for sure but I think most expensive bull I ever bought was $2600. As it worked out I didn't consider him the absolute best bull I ever bought either.

Most bulls I buy seem to be around the $2000-$2200 range. This includes both yearling black Angus and coming 2 yr old Herefords.
 
Oh, depending, anywhere from $20 to $150. I like the bulls that don't eat anything, don't give you any chores, and can be conveniently stored in a tank in a tiny little straw. :D :D
 
$ 5400 back in mid 1970s..Full blood simmintal..He turned out to very mean..quiet but would deck you if you walked to close to him.Most of his off spring was same way for two generations..ended up cullin all of them from herd..
 
Best bull I ever owned cost only $1200- about 10 years ago...
I had 2 bulls go down- needed at least one for the Creek pasture- it was after bullsales time... I was talking to a friend who is a purebred breeder that raises some nice angus cows- and he said he had one that had been left out of his sale because he didn't test because he was too young- tested good now... Bull had nothing for EPD's (WW +16, YW +27 Milk +14) - but beggars can't be choosers and I figured I could can him in the fall if nothing else...
Bull turned into a nice quiet muscled barely 4 frame- that raised some nice looking calves and great easy keeping quiet maternal cows that have kept breeding back and raising good calves- several I have now...After seeing some of the cows he sired it helped convince me to quit chasing the numbers game...
 
I can appreciate where you are coming from OT.

Most money we spent on a bull was $5000 and he doesn't look so
good right now. A bull we bought that was left over after a sale looks much better today. The calves out of the spendy bull were good, as we bred him to the 2 coming 3's. But the bull himself was really long and broke bad behind the shoulders. I imagine some of his heifers would do that too.

Most of our bulls are in the $200-$3000 range and they've been fine.
 
I bought 3 bull at one sale at $4,000 a pop. One of them turned out pretty good. One I barely used and the other one I used but he gave pretty framey claves and I don't think I have any cows in the herd from him. :roll:

I look for bulls that are in the middle of the pen and usually run any where from 2to $3,500. :?
 
Faster horses said:
I can appreciate where you are coming from OT.

Most money we spent on a bull was $5000 and he doesn't look so
good right now. A bull we bought that was left over after a sale looks much better today. The calves out of the spendy bull were good, as we bred him to the 2 coming 3's. But the bull himself was really long and broke bad behind the shoulders. I imagine some of his heifers would do that too.

Most of our bulls are in the $200-$3000 range and they've been fine.

Fasterhorses,i suppose you meant $2000-$3000, the family has had some very nice pricey bulls on the home place,I personally cut it off @ about 2 -3 K
good luck
 
The guy that got us started in this business was a good cowman.
His advice on buying bulls was "go to a good program and buy the middle, don't go to a poor program and buy the top". That advice has
served us well and pretty much was the same advice Larry Leonhardt gave us a few years ago.

Larry says the bulls that excel in traits (like reall high gains on test, etc) are outliers and they won't breed back to themselves, but rather to the averages of that line of cattle.
 
The most was $4200.I think the best was 12 years ago I was pretty broke and needed a bull I had $1200 cash and no checkbook along.I bought a Shoshone Viking GD60 son for $1150 got 3 calf crops from him before he broke his leg fighting with the neighbor's bull.Those are some pretty good cow's.
 
I think the very most was $3400. Most have been bought between $2500-3000. I've gotten a lot more bull for the money buying Balancers than Angus. It seems like you pay for the Angus breed. Now that I'm trying to add more Angus back into the herd, this is becoming more obvious :D .
 
I think the most I have ever spent was $3500. I usually dont like to spend that much on bulls cause something always happens to the expensive ones. I usually would rather spend around 3000 but have bought good bulls in the $2500 range. Just because they cost alot of money it doesn't mean they're gonna be good.
 
Last year my bull purchases averaged about $1300, with a low of $1000 and highs at $1400. The most I ever paid for a bull was a Charolais ten or twelve years ago for $1800. Papers don't mean anything to me or my cows, so that is a luxury we don't need. I like to buy the best commercial yearling bulls available for the least expense possible, self-insure, use them one season, and pound them out in the fall. It usually costs about $350-$400 per bull per season doing it this way, and the only feed they eat is what they eat during the breeding season. This year we did carry over nine bulls because the pound price went down so badly before I had a chance to dispose of them.
 
Dang I guess I better not say or you might call me kola. The best bulls for my buck have been in the 3 to 5,000 range though. Sometimes an expensive bull is just a little more frame, which I do not need or want.
 
I've never paid over $2200. Like Soapweed, papers aren't a consideration. We buy commercial bulls for a commercial herd, so we buy bulls off people we know with programmes we like.
Years ago my dad had some purebred simmental cattle, so went and got a pricey fullblood bull. Nicely got it unloaded and properly admired only to find it dead as could be the next morning. Somehow he'd managed to get a good drink of pentaw that was in a 45 gallon drum he'd been treating some fence posts in. That was in the '70s and I think he paid $5000 for that experience.
 
Anywhere from 2000 to 5000 to keeping my own commercial calves. There hasn't been much difference in the progeny. There can be some darn good bulls bought out of cow dispersals too.
 
Waisted 10 grand on one a number of years ago. Would starve to death if he got too far from the feed bunk. Most of his offspring were the same. Good riddance. Came from a very well known producer in NE.
 
Cal said:
Waisted 10 grand on one a number of years ago. Would starve to death if he got too far from the feed bunk. Most of his offspring were the same. Good riddance. Came from a very well known producer in NE.

I had one like that looked like a reservation dog all Ribs and Balls.
 

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