Update on bull

keh · Mar 17, 2016

I posted some time ago about relative hauling bull for neighbor. The very large bull got out of the loading pen and/or chute 2-3 times and then after being caught went through 2-3 gates at the stockyards and escaped. Stockyard paid owner estimated weight. Bull got into a pasture near the stockyard I found out today that the owner of the pasture bought the bull from the stockyard. I don't know if he heard the full story of the bull's escapes or not, but I wouldn't want to own that bull. Just glad the bull didn't wind up in my pasture.

KEH

rrlund · Mar 17, 2016

I got a call from the slaughter house one day,wanting to know what I'd brought in. There was a Hereford bull that showed up at the dairy farm across the road. They got it drove across to the slaughter house and shut it in and all heck broke loose. It took down every gate in the place and had all the cattle mixed together. They had to kill it,but they never did find an owner. Nobody had brought it in. It had escaped from somewhere and went cross country,but they don't know from here.

WGreufe · Mar 17, 2016

Dad bought an Angus bull from Grandpa years ago when I was a kid. Grandparents live about 50 miles south of us by the way the crow flies. Anyway, dad has the bull hauled from Grandpa's to our place and they turn him out of the trailer. He hangs out overnight I think and is gone the next day. I think they brought him home once or twice and he kept busting through the fence headed south! Dad talked to Grandpa about it and Grandpa told him to sell him. You'll never keep him home. Dad sold him. :lol:

Dave H (MI) · Mar 17, 2016

I sure get excited about the idear of owning a few beef critters when I read these posts!

Tom in TN · Mar 17, 2016

I've had a number of registered black Angus bulls over the years. Every one of them has been gentle and well behaved. I treated them with respect and they did the same toward me. I never trusted them, but I never had any trouble with them either.

I sold my last bull about a year ago, (I'm working my way out of the cattle business.) My last bull was just like the others - gentle and well behaved. However, I trapped him in a large box stall in my barn in anticipation of the new owner coming to pick him up. Two of the box stall walls are barn walls. The other two are five tube gates. The bull went over the top of two parallel gates that swing out together from the pivot pins. He didn't knock the gates down, he just went over them and in the process, bent the top tubes of both gates down.

I ushered him back into the pasture. The new owner came the next day. We ushered the bull into the loading chute and he walked right up into the trailer. He just didn't like the idea of being trapped in the barn.

Tom in TN

pat sublett · Mar 17, 2016

When I think of Bulls. my mind imediately goes to a vision, when I was a kid of a bull with rabies running across country tearing through fences and charging everything he came to, bellering and frothing at the mouth.

ADB-Ia · Mar 17, 2016

Father-in-law had a charlais bull years back that loved to roam. A lot of good stories about chasing that bull. When he sold him he told his neighbor he'd have to get his own bull. He hadn't had a bull for three years and hadn't missed a calf.

JayinNY · Mar 17, 2016

Yup, bulls can be mean, I don't like to be around them, same with stallions, we had one on a thoroughbred breeding farm I worked on, that one was nasty, bit the vets ear off, that stallion wore a wire cage fixed to his halter 24/7 so he could not bite anymore. Sometimes it took 2 guys to lead him out to the paddock. Hes passed away now, Scarlet Ibis was his name.

K Effective · Mar 18, 2016

I read this post to a buddy yesterday as we travelled to a basketball game. He and his family used to raise cattle, registered Charolais then more Chi-Angus for show calves. One day they missed the Charolais bull, and went looking. Found him at the green chop feed wagon,somehow he had gotten up in the air enough to get higher into the feed, and got his head through the bars in a place not designed for heads- basically hung himself right there. He was dead, and had been dead for some time. Only way to get him out was with a chainsaw, and not on the metal bars, if you know what I mean. Left an impression.

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