If I was a heifer bull

I’d want to be this dude. Neighbors heifer bull came to my brothers south fence the other day. If I was a bull I’d be this dude for several reasons.
1) I’d be a heifer bull
2) When I’m spent there’s no way they are eating me and I’m to purdy to dispatch. They would just let me die of old age. What say you?

There's sure enough worse ways to make your living... lol

Funny Yes sir

I can’t think of any…

I would be super mad if that thing got in and bred my heifers.

Understandable but they are low birthweight and make good heifer bulls

When I was a kid most everyone used a longhorn or jersey bull to breed their heifers

I’d be fine on the wall or the floor twolines

He actually was a suicide bomber in his last life and now he's received his 72 virgins.

Keith

He is actually big enough to be an "Alaskan Longhorn" wow!

Bryce

he is a good looking bugger . id let him in with my heifers wean those calves early sell them for roping calves and get mom in good shape for winter . He would look good on my longhorn cows too and my neighbor might actually fix his fence if he seen that guy running in there LOL

Back in the day, alot of guys in my area used dexter bulls for heifer bulls. You have to look pretty hard anymore to find a GOOD herd to buy a dexter bull from.

Looks like you could use a little rain possibly.

Run thats as green as Westren Kansas can get. We had 3”-4” in May. Grass is short because they are in a corner next to a prairie dog town

I thought you were referring to being a he-she

Opened for the punch line

Thanks, Pawnee. What is your predominant species of grass? Mine is thistles and some fescue.

I doubt he would trade jobs with any of us

Actually, that's an Alaska shorthorn

In some Amazon villages where everything is surrounded by thick jungle, cattle have poles tied to their horns to keep them from wandering into the jungle. No fence required. This bull would not need a pole.

my unckle that i worked for always used a longhorn on the heiffers... we never had to pull a calf
a cow got bred outta season as i came to feed on day in january... was -20 here underneath the stackmover was a fuzzy litle longhorn healthy as could be... any other breed would have been froze... there hardy breed

Buffalo grass is our native grass. When the rain stops it goes dormant until it finally rains again. With the heat we are having it will be brown and crunchy in a week or so

Gosh, I hate to pee on your parade (so to speak) but there is no such thing as a "heifer bull".
A heifer is a female bovine and a bull is, well a bull has testicles.......so..........

Where is it you're from again ?

Sorry trader vic I posted then saw your reply

Heifer bull is a bull that tend to have smaller calves so its easier on young heifers to birth the first time.

The cattlemen know what Pawnee is talking about.......shanemoss put it in a nutshell. Bulls that are genetically predispostioned to throw smaller framed calves are typically used on heifers for calving ease; thusly called heifer bulls by lots of cattlemen. Longhorns, Corriente, Dexters, Jerseys, Aberdeen/Lowline are some of the common breeds used for the job in this region.Some 'families' in specific breeds are known for having low birth weight calves and the bulls from those genetics are also often used on the heifers as 'heifer bulls'.

Buffalo grass is our native grass. When the rain stops it goes dormant until it finally rains again. With the heat we are having it will be brown and crunchy in a week or so[/quote]
Thanks for the reply.

You guys convince lefty he can't be a ladies man with those arguments and I'll stop calling our low birth weight bulls heifer bulls. Lol

Thanks Shane the city people get confused by rural terms these days

Ok how did I get drug into this one?

I'm just out here ridin fences one heiferette at a time LOL

I thought a heifer was an unbred female and a bull was an intact male.
So... what's a "heifer bull"?

If I was a bull, the heifers would probably call me shorty.

Sorry lefty. Probably just some hidden jealousy that made do it

A low birthweight bull that is easy on the heifers and the cow man because the calves are a very small at birth. No pulling 90 pound calves out of a 800 pound heifer.

Always learning something on T-Man
I’m not a cattleman
I thought someone was in the sauce.

Thanks for the explanations. Everyone.

+1

No apology necessary, this thread has been a lot of fun with everyone and certainly a nice distraction from the news.

Everybody should know that Longhorns are in Texas

That is quite a spread!

Leftlane?

Nice.

That’s a Longhorn! I bet that dude is on a wall somewhere. Thanks

He's not on a wall yet. Only 8 years old now. He was 6 when that picture was taken with a measurement then of 11' 2", tip to tip.
That young boy holding him is the owner.

It is hard to predict a drought cycle but if your cows have dry grass for the first 2 trimesters then the rains cut loose a low birthweight bull can save the day even with older cows

Left lane, you know more than 90% of beef farmers in Virginia.

Yeah, me too! We got a fair # in the streets of Eugene.

Thanks Run but if that is true, there is a good reason. I've met some good men over in VA and close by but I will never forget what an ol boy that was order buyin told me. He said the average cow calf operation there was only 10-12 momma cows. If I do know more it is simply because I've calved out more most years than they will see in a lifetime.

The good news is that in the digital age information flows freely and quickly. If you are not managing your herds well you hafta take the blame at some point anymore no matter what business you are in right?

We tend to do farming on a small scale because land is so expensive.