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Releasing the Bull and Observing Herd Interaction

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BIG BULL is here! But will the lady cows like him?

What happens here

The bull is released from the trailer into the new paddock. The cows are already waiting patiently at the gate. The farmer notes that this is the same bull used last year, indicating his reliability. The bull is expected to begin breeding activity shortly after being released, ensuring that the cows calve during the optimal spring period when grass quality is at its peak. This timing allows for the best quality milk and the healthiest young calves. The farmer also briefly mentions an instance from the previous year where an uncastrated bull calf inadvertently bred some cows, resulting in unexpected February calves.

Goal: Integrate the bull into the new herd for breeding.

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and calves he won't bother the calves this bull is a very trusted bull he's the father of most of these calves that you see right here tell me about the bull it's the same boy i brought in last year right it is the same one sure enough and he said healthy babies for you oh yeah and healthy babies for me guys all the babies that you see out here from uh wooly bully is what we call them so uh you rounded them up two days ago one day ago or just happened today today all right good deal good deal well let's let him out and see what he does what's your prediction uh i'd say he's gonna go to doing business yeah business time all right let's let him out so the ladies are patiently waiting guys you ready that's not a lady just so you know um this is butthead hey bud head how you doing girl it's time ladies let me get these girls out of here get ready girls i'm excited he's a big boy amy it's a season for love ladies a season for love when you bring in a bull like this guys here's what you can expect he's already been in here and he's met these ladies before he bred pretty much every cow here last year um he's not a really large bull i don't want a great big monstrous bull in my herd i want to breed my animal size down to about this size here somewhere in the neighborhood of 950 to 1200 pounds something like that this is number 40. she's had a little bit of a problem with her foot i believe she sprained her ankle you okay girl yeah she's got a little limp but she's getting better so he's going for the shade the water is right up here and this is it i would expect wooly bully to start getting busy probably sometime in the next 35-45 minutes and this guarantees us the gestation period of our cows in other words our cow's gestation period is just like a woman a female woman human it's a nine-month gestation period okay so we breed them now and we can get our babies in april may and june right when the spring flush hits right when the grass is the best the best quality br grass grows the best quality milk and grows the best quality young calves awesome that's exactly what we did last year and we had awesome success except for we had one bull that i didn't expect to breed so we had one bull we didn't castrate earlier in the year and he bred back some of them so we had some young calves in february not what i wanted but it all worked out great awesome guys well i guess i owe you all lunch right the cow gets debris cow gets to breed and we get to eat so that's a good…

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