CHAPTER VI 

 THE FEEDING AND CARE OF BULLS 



The discussion of this question will consider: (i) 

 Bulls of the three types, viz., the dairy, beef, and dual 

 types; (2) Food and care during the milk period; (3) 

 Food from weaning until maturity; (4) Management 

 from weaning until matured ; (5) Food for mature bulls; 

 (6) Management of mature bulls; (7) Extent and dura- 

 tion of service called for; (8) Handling bulls that are 

 vicious; (9) Restoring begetting power in bulls when 

 the same is lost; and (10) Purchase and disposal oi 

 bulls. The discussion is taken up thus minutely and 

 comprehensively for the reason, first, that the feeding 

 and care of bulls is not nearh^ so well understood even 

 by the average stockman as the feeding and care of cows ; 

 second, that the measure of success which attends the 

 breeding of cattle is intimately dependent on the con- 

 dition in which the males are maintained; and, third, 

 that the mistakes made in the management of bulls in 

 the past has not only resulted in much loss, but it has 

 also proved a barrier to highest attainment in the eftort 

 to improve herds. 



Bulls of three types. — The ordinarily accepted classi- 

 fication of cattle divides them into the three types men- 

 tioned above. The feeding and management of males 

 of these dififer materially in some respects, but in others 

 they are the same. The differences are the outcome of 

 the difference in treatment called for and are much fewer 

 than the points of agreement in the same. 



In growing bulls for the dairy, it is all-important 

 that they shall possess the power to transmit good milk- 

 producing qualities. Whatever will militate against 

 such transmission should be sedulouslv a\'oided, and 



