Dang Bull

[Kato]

We have no money to replace Tony now. It's as simple as that. The cattle business in this country is tougher than any mean bull.

We have never, and will never keep his daughters anyway. He will just have to wait until fall.

 

[garn]

This time of year all bulls are especially stupid. From the description, I don't see that this particular bull's behavior is unusually agressive. He is a normal bull.

The best policy is to never trust any bull at any time.
Read Mulga's thread about the guy in the oil field killed by a bull. Whatever you do, don't make pets of them. Nothing exemplifes the old adage "familiarity breeds contempt" than a pet bull.

I've been having a couple problem bulls lately trying to make them behave another 3 weeks before turnout time. They have got out without damaging too much fence to cattle that were on the other side. Now I have a half mile in between them and the cows. Not sure if it will work but it's about the best I can do at this time. :roll:

I learned that when I was a kid. I was probably elementary age and was standing outside a barn while my uncles were attempting to work with a bull (IIRC, there was a squeeze chute in the part of the barn they were working in) and somehow, things went hay wire inside the barn and all I remember was the bull attempting to get out and me running like a bat out of hell back towards the house.

I loved tagging along with my uncles whenever they were out doing chores as my Mom, siblings, and I were living at the farm my Mom grew up on following the end of my parent's marriage and I recall after that incident, I went out of my way to avoid even walking past the small lot that the bulls were kept in and my uncles being the way uncles normally are, constantly teased me over the incident.

 

[JayH]

We finally found the perfect heifer bull a couple of years ago. He's an amazing calver, and a pretty darn good looking bull too. The plan was to not keep his daughters so we could keep him for a long time. With Limo bulls, that has the potential to be a very very long time. Nine years is the average for most of ours.

Well, anyway, last summer Tony got in with the neighbour's heifers, and was there when they hauled their cattle home. They called us when they were done, and we went to pick him up. I guess all the sorting and chasing, and then the final insult of being left without cows snapped something in his brain. When we got there, he was totally psycho. :shock: :shock: We just backed the trailer up, and let him find it. If we'd have gone in there, he'd either have chased us, or jumped the gate and we'd never see him again. When we got him home he calmed right down, and was good all winter, so we figured this was a one time thing.

Not!

Time for pasture this spring, and the so far quiet Tony found himself alone in the alley leading to the tub, with the trailer full of cows at the other end. Didn't matter. He couldn't see the cows, and he snapped again. This time, Hubby was in the alley with him, and found himself in a very dangerous situation. I was two pens over, the dogs were by the trailer, and the only way out was over a high plank fence. He started climbing as the bull took a run, and luckily got high enough that the first big head butt flipped him over the fence. He fell flat on his back on the other side, and thank heavens, the bull respected the fence. We hauled him to pasture, where he was goofy for about a week, and now he's calmed down again.

We don't care how good a heifer bull he is, life's too short to put up with this nonsense. In the fall, Tony's going for a ride. :!:

They call it herdbound around here. Ship him. Take the girls away and they go crazy. Do you normally keep bull in year round?

 

[JayH]

Was outside yesterday and could hear a bull bellowing. No idea of what was going on so I headed out there on the hubby's 4-wheeler.
Found our heifer bull on his side of the fence and our Churchill bull on his side stiff necking each other and acting like they were going to fight.
I yelled at them and headed for the gate to get over there to break them up.
When I got to our gate the wires were stretched and it was almost opened. the top wire held.

Got over close to them and found where the Churchill bull had busted up the fence that seperated them. As I got closer the bull turned to face me, put his head down, shook his horns, blew snot and took a couple of steps towards me. I got the 4-wheeler in reverse and backed away.
He turned and went up the fence line. i got behind him and stated pushig back towards his cows. Kept enough distance for me to get away if he decided to charge.

He's hitting the road this fall. We have no use for a bull tearing up fence and even hinting at charging us.

I kind of liked the looks of that bull to. What are you going to replace him with?

 

[I Luv Herfrds]

Jay here is a recent pic of the Churchill bull.
He lost a lot of weigh during the breeding season.

Here is the bull we got from H'76. We call him Bear. He went out at the same time as the other but has not lost the weight and he has been breeding cows too.