Anybody here in the cattle business?

Google your state cattlemans association officers. Most are eager to teach.

at the end of the day you should call yourself a grass farmer intead of a cattle rancher

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.

I really don't have any advice for you but shite that's a lot of bulls. Bump this post mid morning tomorrow. There's a few cowboys on here that could help.

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1 bull for every like 30 cows

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My kind of ratio

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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!!

What breed of Bulls are you dealing with.

You gotta unload those bulls. Find a stocker sale you can join in or contact the closest stockyard and host your own. Trying to house that many bulls on that few acres is a recipe for disaster. I'd sell off half your heifers as well then start from there. The proceeds from he sale could give you a decent bankroll cushion.

Just make sure you have a damn good fence and nothing half arse cause cows have an uncanny way of seizing the opportunity to cross a fence

So I'm not real experienced but I do have a small heard. As others have said I'd thin out those bulls. Are they by any chance steer yearlings? That would make more sense and you can probably keep them another year and sell them off.

I'd move towards 3 acres per animal to have the best portion of grass per head. If your grass is really good you can do better than that but for now you probably need to be closer to 30-40 head total. At 80 head you can't get away from feeding them. They simply don't have enough grass.

Another option if you can't thin the heard is to try and lease some land near you.

If you can't do any of that I'd start looking at using electric fence to do intensive grazing. You can get down to 1 acre per head IF your grass is high end. If you could get the heard to 50 acres while you prep the other 50 you might could get caught up. I still personally think you'll still have to thin the heard some to even do this. If it's bad now wait until winter hits.

A few good books I've read: 1.) Grass Fed Cattle 2.) Storey's Guide to Rasing Beef Cattle 3.) Salad Bar Beef.