Monitoring the young bull

Doreen Corridan, Munster Bovine highlights the importance of monitoring the young bull throughout the breeding season.
Doreen explains that the easiest way of monitoring the bull is by putting a chin ball on the bull, fill it with the paint and each fill of paint will do 15-20 matings. As you come back each day to check the cattle you will see what the bull has mated and what ones are repeating.
Alternatively you can fit scratch cards to the cows and heifers when they are outside and change them every 3 weeks and check the actual scratch cards for repeats.
It is very easy to miss cows in heat so it is important to use a monitoring device.