Not so many bulls about farms
these days, particularly the dairy herds. Before the advent of Artificial
Insemination, you often reared a bull calf out of one of your own best cows, the
resultant heifers coming into your herd and completing their first lactation,
would be very hit and miss. It was not uncommon to see cows with curled up toes and long pendulous udders often having front teats pointing east west. Also you had three more years of calves on the way
before the bull had been proven.