Managing Bulls for Optimum Production

“Some of the bulls with sub-optimal fertility may not be detected with a typical semen test and breeding soundness exam, however. A bull may have plenty of ...

Bull Management and Nutrition | UNL Beef

Additionally, bulls influence their daughters' production in the cow herd. Therefore, bull selection can be the most powerful method of genetic ...

Beef Bull Development | Mississippi State University Extension Service

Effective use of bull management groups can help achieve optimum bull reproductive performance and longevity. Because it can often be difficult to supplement ...

How to Properly Manage Your Bulls for a Successful Breeding Season

These bulls will probably come out of the breeding pasture in lower-than-optimal body condition but will have nine to 10 months to recover body condition.

Bull Management - The Beef Cattle Institute

The importance of the bull battery to the genetic profile of the herd is apparent when one remembers that this year's bulls control 50% of the ...

Management of Bulls For Optimum Fertility - Farm Advisory Service

• Bulls can have temporary degeneration of sperm producing cells for various reasons (stress, lameness, toxaemia etc). Page 20. Semen Testing. • Increasing ...

Proper bull management essential for optimum performance

Breeding bulls need to be vaccinated for foot rot and have their hoofs trimmed. These two preventive measures will go a long way to avoiding ...

Breeding Bull Management: It's a Year-Round Commitment (G2332)

Managing for healthy, productive bulls is a year-round process. Keep in mind spermatogenesis (sperm production and development) is a 61-day process.

Bull Management Practices on U.S. Beef Cow-calf Operations

These major beef cow-calf producing. States represented 79.6 percent of U.S. operations with beef cows and 87.8 percent of U.S. beef cows. One of the goals of ...

Feeding and managing young bulls for optimum fertility and longevity

Feeding a moderate ration and not pushing them too much helps avoid foot problems and fat in the scrotum (which interferes with fertility). “We ...

22 Management Considerations for Bulls - Oklahoma State University

(1991) Lowering Production Costs: Investigating the Optimal Use of Bull Power. 1991. Beef Program Report. Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO. Pg. 23 ...

MANAGE BULLS FOR OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE AND LONGEVITY

As discussed before, ideally, to produce a bull that will perform once put into the breeding program he should be fed as much roughage as possible while meeting ...

Bull Management for optimal breeding performance

For example, using a Hereford bull as a clean-up bull after inseminating Angus cows with Angus semen will produce white faced (bull sired) ...

BULL NUTRITION AND MANAGEMENT

Producers should probably leave bulls with the cows at least 10 days to 2 weeks past the optimum breeding season. Producers should only go with a rigid 45 or.

Proper Bull Management is Key to Successful Breeding Season

“Stepping down bulls from a high plane of nutrition through gradual reductions in grain combined with increased amounts of forage is necessary ...

Management Of The Beef Bull

If the older bull is less fertile and of less genetic value, optimum ... damage in younger bulls and decreased sperm production in mature bulls.

Proper Bull Management is Key to Successful Breeding Season

“Stepping down bulls from a high plane of nutrition through gradual reductions in grain combined with increased amounts of forage is necessary ...

Bull Development and Management for Optimum Breeding ...

Sometimes bulls are feed a high concentrate diet during performance testing. Davis urges cattle producers to adapt these bulls to a high ...

Management Guidelines - National Association of Animal Breeders

For bulls to achieve and maintain optimum growth and semen production, they must be in good health and physical condition. Various preventive medicine ...

Bull Management - BeefResearch.ca

Bull Breeding Soundness Evaluations (BBSE) pre-breeding can give valuable insight into if bulls are prepared to handle the upcoming breeding season and identify ...