re: Anybody here in the cattle business?

That's a lot of bulls. Not much you can do for aggression other than separate them. I've seen them tear through a 6 strand bar wire fence though to get into a fight.

For feeding use cubes. Just dump them straight on the ground. They are big enough where you don't need a feeder or trough.

Everybody I know has 1 bull for every like 30 cows. That seems absolutely nuts to me. You Louisiana folks sure are strange...


Just kidding fellas.

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By myself on a 100 acre ranch. 40 yearling bulls for a bull sale. Close to 40 heifers.

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I'm feeding a limiter feed without a creep feeder. It's hard to put out enough feed by myself with sacks and nothing to use bulk sacks with.

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First of all, I don't know where you are located and what kind of rainfall you have had, but if you are having to limit feed right now, that place is in a heap of trouble come winter. Need to get rid of those bulls FAST. They are doing you no good but eating up all your resources, and by the time they sale, the ranch will be in the hole on them.

80 animals (half of them being bulls) is a lot for 100 acres, especially if you don't have the forage. And if your spending that much time feeding bulls, I assume the grass isn't that great.

I would recommend getting a grazing consultant, or contacting the Natural Resources Conservation Service in your parish.

Good opportunity to learn, and I'm assuming if the ranch owner is willing to hire someone that has little to no experience in the cattle business, they also have little to no experience. Could be wrong, but I've never seen anyone holding on to 40 bulls for a sale. Talk about a waste of resources!!

Unless the bulls are from high end Reg. cattle and the herd being well known holding bulls for bull sales are not worth it. Cost of feed and care to keep them looking they way they will need to look at bull sale will eat your lunch. Would have cut them and sold as steers at weaning. Don't know how many grown cows you have but should not keep over 10-20% of top end heifers for replacements. A cow/calf operation will pay for itself but a person has to be able to weather the lean years. Normally you will need to get around $500 per calf to break even, which is doable in calf prices at present.