Availability

Farmers plan ahead when looking for a bull to purchase so it coincides with the time of year they want to have their calves delivered, or if they already had a bull they had been using, time to get the old bull away from the cows before a new one is introduced. Once pregnant, the cows gestation is roughly about the same as a human, nine months, making for easy calculations on when to purchase a new sire.

Our bull pen was full earlier in the year when we had ten youngsters ranging from weaning age (about 8-9 months) to one left over bull from last year’s yearlings that all were available for sale in the spring. We like to hold our bulls until they are at least a year old before we sell them as breeding animals, we watch their growth to assure good solid stock for our clients.

Sales were slow in the spring but there was the frenzy of bull buying that went on during our busy hay season (June), the frenzy died as quickly as it had begun and we were down to two bulls that had not sold but were tentatively spoken for.

One bull was moved down to our small herd of bred cows that has been on grass control duty on a neighbor farm. He fit right in with the girls and happily munched his way along as the group was rotated from pasture to pasture during their outsourced assignment. The other bull was put in with our two cows and their calves that reside in the pastures around the show barn. Now both bulls are back together in the bull pen and interest has started back up again. I’m showing them here in case someone needs a good bull so they could start having spring calves.

Both bulls are now 15 months old and raring to  begin the business of sire-ing with their own herd.

Grasshopper is a couple of days older out of the two and now weighs 1500 lbs. He has been the one spending time at our show barn with the ladies. He loves fresh produce out of the garden and is happy to have his neck scratched if you give him sliced apples first.

Coffee has just moved back to the farm from his duties of grass control at the neighbor farm. He weighs about 1300 lbs.

He has been easy to move from pasture to pasture with one cow and three heifers that were all bred before he showed up for mowing. He walked right into the trailer to come back to the farm.

The two bulls are hanging out together in the bull pen and surrounding pasture ground while buyers will be looking to purchase.