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• when is a bull past a useful life as a stock bull

  Visited a client in Co. Kerry today. This client had a serious fertility problem with his dairy herd, he questioned vitamins, and minerals. When we discussed the stock bull he announced that the stock bull was 10 years old. Considering the problems he... Posted Mar 30 2012, 10:13 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: stock bulls, fertility problem [Edit Tags]

• Stock bulls can solve certain problems and create others in a dairy herd management program.

  On a farm visit today in the hills of co. Antrim. We visited a large dairy unit where stock bulls were used as the general tool or rearing replacements and getting cows in calf. This system avoids the issue of heat detection. However it unmasks herd health... Posted Mar 08 2012, 12:46 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: stock bulls [Edit Tags]

• Scanning cows where stock bulls are used in the breeding programme.

  Morning rise and time first call this morning involved travel up to county Meath. Scanned a dairy herd and replacements. Stock bulls were running with this herd. The biggest danger here is that the stock bulls will be sub-fertile or infertile. These clients... Posted Feb 07 2011, 10:21 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: infertile bulls, stock bulls, cull cows, cow, dairy herd replacements, subfertile bull [Edit Tags]

• Stock bulls used for mop up breeding

  Stock bulls used to mop up breeding programmes results in very poor records for due dry off dates. There is a phenomenal need for the use of ultrasonography to generate accurate ageing of pregnancies with herds in the North of Ireland where AI is used... Posted Oct 26 2010, 01:23 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: ultrasonography, stock bulls, ageing [Edit Tags]