Thread: a bull that never got weaned one year on

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

My guess is that since the stomach that used to digest the milk will be long gone so suckling milk will just go straight to the shitter.

Yeah, nah. All the stomachs are still there, but the milk will be going into the rumen (1st stomach) rather than bypassing it straight to the abomasum (4th stomach) as happens in calves. But overall outcome is the same - the milk isn't being digested directly by the bull (the rumen microbes are digesting the milk, then the bull digests the microbes).

I'd be leaving the steer and eating a bull - the steer's eating quality can improve with time, the bull won't. And if the cow's are pregnant (quite likely since they are in good condition) they need a break from milking before the next calf arrives.