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WY, OK | Not really, always have a dozen or so steers that you see and say man he could have made a good looking bull, but since they would be super baldies at the best there is no reason to keep them a bull. We would take a $200/hd hit on bull calves over steers and that includes the added bull weight. Had one we couldn't get a band around at branding so we sold him as a bull and brought $190 less and weighed 30lbs more than the steer brothers that sold. We have a kept a few straight red bulls to use as clean up on the heifers. One of the best bulls we have ever had was a home raised but that was a rarity. Weaned at 750 and bred a lot of heifers in the few years we used him, he was also a big baby which was a plus. If we only had a bull battery of a few head I don't think I would want to inbreed that much by using a home raised one. We figure on the few we have kept he was a half brother to maybe 10-15 at the most and then he would have had to get them after AI and get them before another unrelated bull so it wasn't a big deal. | |
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Ever made a calf a steer and wish you hadn't?
