Last week, I read a short article about bull care and management. In it, a university veterinarian said, “A bull may lose anywhere from 100 to 200 pounds during a breeding season.” While I know this is true – I also know it doesn’t have to be this way. Nearly all PCC® bulls will gain weight during the breeding season, no matter how young or how old they are.
Food for thought… If your bull loses weight during the breeding season, what kind of replacement females will he produce?
The two bulls pictured above are working at PCC® Headquarters in Colorado. Whoops… I should not have said they are “working” because sex is not work for a Pharo bull. The Angus bull is Hickory. At five years of age, he is a stud! The Red Angus bull is Jango. He is four years old. After nearly four weeks with the cows, Jango thinks he is done and is checking out the neighbor’s cows across the highway.
Both of these bulls are capable of breeding 50 to 80 cows in a 45-day breeding season – while gaining weight! Their fleshing ability has been bred in – NOT fed in! Both of these bulls are in our 2025 AI Sire Directory. Both are A2/A2 and Certified Tenet®. Both have extreme calving ease.
If you want to produce low-input, easy-fleshing cows that do not need to be pampered, you need to be using bulls that were produced by low-input, easy-fleshing cows that have never been pampered. Like begets like! Request a catalog for our upcoming bull sales below. We will have sales in Nebraska, Colorado, Alabama and Montana.
Quote Worth Re-Quoting
“The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.” ~ Hal Elrod