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Valley, NE | My bull, aptly named "Richard" because he's kind of a "richard head" stayed in the middle pen all winter with solid fences and gates that were chained and wired, he has a little 15ft x 8ft shed that gets bedded with corn stalks and gets a scoop of ground corn everyday from the kids. This last fall, i had a geriatric cow that was getting picked on, but was bred up, so she stayed in there with him to get a bit more corn outside the cow herd. He had the replacement heifers and couple steers on one side of him and 4 freezer beef on the otherside and two horses to the north of him. he had everything he needed and i kept him pretty comfortable and he didint feel the need to push on gates or fence. We did have a tractor tire feedtub with a 30 gallon barrel 1/2 full of gravel he toyed with if he got wound up and needed to beat on something. He would bellar at the heifers but wasnt much of a problem. Give them a buddy or something to do and make them confortable, and they'll lounge around until working season.
I have had single bulls go in with the horses for the winter on the round bale in the past and get his scoop of pellets like the horses every day, and they got along fine until the bull started chewing on horse tails.
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Edited by wurtzy 4/25/2024 08:44
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What do others do with single bull in non-breeding season
