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Category Archives: bulls
Sometimes, the best way to learn is to do it all wrong
So, we had a bull calf born out of cycle last spring, and for some reason for the past year, I’ve assumed I was going to band him for a steer. Now, we don’t really need a steer that will be ready sometime in the fall, but that’s what I had in my head, so [...] Continue reading