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Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose

IL Rancher

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Last Monday, first thiing in the morning, we found one of our bulls with a gigantic hemotoma on his... uhmm.. tool/sheath.. Cleaned him off, gave him some Banamine and locked him up. Didn't feel/look good so we brought the vet out... Turned out something had nearly severed his equipment. Vet figures someone kicked him and caused him to be unable to retract and than someone stepped or kicked on the exposed area and cut it in at least two places. Have been treating iwh heavy antibiotics, cleaning and some topical cream twice a day but the more I look at it the more I think gangrene is setting in.. Vet didn't give much of a chance when she saw the extent of the damage but man, tough to take when a brand new bull gets all of three days of service under his belt before going down like that.
 

Denny

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I had that happen two years in a row on 2 new yearling bulls don't think I got more than 10 calves from them.Makes for expensive burger.
 

Mike

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That's not good. Sometimes they will bounce back though. You'll only have to keep him around for about a year before you know. (Sarcasm)

I had a young bull lose his tool this year too.

Makes A.I. ing more profitable. :???:
 

Jake

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back when we had the big pasture down south seemed like in one year we had 3 of the 4 bulls come up with broken peeders or an infection in there.... They had ran together all winter but didn't deter the fighting and made for an expensive year.
 

IL Rancher

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We had one 3 years ago break his 2 weeks before breeding season... His first season as well. That was a tough on. He go healed up enough to use, looked almost normal and he was able to breed cows the next year (Maybe it was a bad sprain instead of a break :wink: ) but he broke it for sure at the end of that year.. Either someone was out to get him or his technique needed help.

Made AI seem like a good idea as I was bringing him in..... Thank god he wasn't one of the real expensive ones but he wasn't cheap...Never happens to the real cheap ones.. I have a couple bulls that would pay for themselves and than some when I sell them for the burger market (Figuring depreciation and the like).. This is why I usually have 20-30% to much bull power, I am strating to think that we might need more than that.
 

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