Good stories. Our little place has steep hillsides, lots of it unsafe for mowing, and we keep a few head of cattle to help keep the brush in check. We get rid of the crazy ones, but they have to show themselves before you know they're crazy. The Brahma bull/tomato cage story reminded me of a young brahma that had a habit of squeezing through the slats of a round bale feeder. One morning the feeder was gone, the fence was wrecked, and the cattle were out. That brahma had gotten stuck in the slats and tore up everything getting loose. Did she learn? No - it happened a couple more times before she got too big to fit between the slats. We slowly bred away from the brahma line. They were pets in the pasture, but some or most went crazy when you shut a gate behind them, at least in my experience.
I worked on a dairy farm in high school. No milkers for me.
I liked raising hogs, but I also liked making a profit, and in the eighties the words hogs and profit were seldom used in the same sentence.
When I was dating my wife, her dad had a real tame black bull that he couldn't keep in. One night I was leaving their house to go home. This was in the era when it was dark outside at night. I was gingerly feeling my way out to my black '56 Ford when I stumbled over the bull laying in the front yard. Scared the snot out of both of us.
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