Bull Calf Evaluation & Marketing Workshops- Central Alabama

These workshops will teach producers how to evaluate bull calves and how to effectively market these bulls once they have been developed into breeding bulls. The focus of the workshop will be how to evaluate a bull calf’s skeletal and foot structure, muscling and reproductive potential. These physical attributes are very important in how long the bull can remain in the herd.

Once these physical characteristics have been evaluated and combined with genetic potential indicators, the work of marketing can begin. It is important producers understand bulls can have different breeding purposes and this affects how they should be marketed. Some bulls excel in many areas, such as calving ease, growth and the ability to produce good daughters. Other bulls may excel in only one or two areas. Each quality bull has his place in the breeding herd.