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How many heifers can one bull breed?
A yearling bull, which is best used on heifers, can breed from 10 to 20 heifers in a breeding season.
What age should you start putting your bulls with your heifers?
When the heifers are at least 14 months old, you can put yearling bulls (15-20 heifers per bull for yearlings) in with them. Don't put your big mature bulls in with your heifers as this could cause problems later on.
How long should you leave a bull in with cows or heifers?
Breeding season for cows and heifers should be from 45 to 90 days long. Sixty days is considered optimum.
How long do you leave the breeding bull in with the heifers?
It is recommended to leave the breeding bull in with heifers for 60-75 days to ensure successful breeding and conception. This timeframe allows for multiple heat cycles to be covered, increasing the chances of successful mating and pregnancy.
Why are cattle bred by artificial selection?
They are not. Cattle (cows and heifers) are bred either via artificial insemination, or natural breeding.
How many heifers can one bull breed?
A yearling bull, which is best used on heifers, can breed from 10 to 20 heifers in a breeding season.
What age should you start putting your bulls with your heifers?
When the heifers are at least 14 months old, you can put yearling bulls (15-20 heifers per bull for yearlings) in with them. Don't put your big mature bulls in with your heifers as this could cause problems later on.
How long should you leave a bull in with cows or heifers?
Breeding season for cows and heifers should be from 45 to 90 days long. Sixty days is considered optimum.
How long do you leave the breeding bull in with the heifers?
It is recommended to leave the breeding bull in with heifers for 60-75 days to ensure successful breeding and conception. This timeframe allows for multiple heat cycles to be covered, increasing the chances of successful mating and pregnancy.
Why are cattle bred by artificial selection?
They are not. Cattle (cows and heifers) are bred either via artificial insemination, or natural breeding.
What are bulls useful for?
Bulls are best used for breeding cows and heifers. They are also used in rodeos and bull fighting as well as for beef, but their primary use and goal in life is to breed as many cows and heifers as possible and produce offspring.
What should be the age of dairy cattle at breeding time?
Most dairy heifers should be at least 15 months of age before they can be bred.
What is a good weight to put angus heifers to the bull for breeding?
Your heifers weight should be 60% of the cow herd's. But, they should also be around 15 months of age, though a couple months plus or minus isn't going to hurt either.
What age should bulls and heifers be bred for the first time?
Bulls can reach puberty by the time they are 8 months of age, but most are put in with the breeding herd by the time they are 12 months of age. Heifers reach puberty by the time they are 10 to 12 months of age, but most heifers are not bred until they are 15 months old. Of course the breed of the bulls and heifers depends on when they reach puberty and/or when they should be used for producing offspring.
What kind of cows are in feedlots?
All kinds, actually. Beef and dairy cows, beef steers and heifers, beef and dairy bulls (young and old), and freemartin heifers of either dairy or beef breeding. Primarily, though, beef steers, young bulls (on occasion, though), and beef heifers unsuited for the breeding herd due to factors like temperament, comformation, size/weight, mothering ability, etc., are in feedlots on a "finishing" ration for three to four months prior to slaughter.
How long before breeding beef cattle?
Heifers should be bred when they reach 15 months of age. Cows should be rebred 45 to 60 days after calving.
How do diary farmers use breeding to increase milk production?
By selecting cows that have the best milk production in the herd and breeding them to bulls whose dams also had superior milk production, resulting in heifers with higher milk production than their dams.
