Caught the MEAN BUL

We had a holestein dairy bull many years ago that got mean almost overnight. I put him in the trailer with a loader tractor and did not care if I would have broke his legs because he was leaving dead or alive that day before he hurt someone. Tom
 
Those miserable things. I've never shot one,but I've sure threatened to. Dad had to shoot one when I was a little guy.
 
Sure is nice to see the ornery ones go down the road. Had a heifer that stayed within the fence quit well.....until attempting to load her. From then on she didn't even see fences. We had to but alot of cow panels and then line the pen with tractors and wagons to hold her. She got in the chute at the slaughter house and somehow got turned around within the narrow slot. They had to back her into their pen.
 
A friend of mine had a steer out all of last summer. This thing would never come close to the barn or other cows, just free ranged like a deer. In the fall they would see it shelling corn but would never get in range of his rifle. I sent my .300 weatherby mag with him and about a week later his son shot it. They hauled it to the locker on pallet forks and made Hamburger.
 
Had a neighbor put a bull in the next field with some cattle. This bull was out of his mind! Wife was trying to walk up and down the driveway/maintenance road for exercise and he charged her, stopping just shy of a bush. She slowly backed up and came in the house crying. We went out and got in the truck and drove out to the main road. I was filming the single-strand fence that was in place - the ONLY thing keeping this bull from hurting someone. When we got to the road, the bull, who was about 1/6th mile away, turned and faced the stopped truck. I put the truck in park and opened the door and got out, just standing next to the truck. I filmed as the bull started charging across the field towards me, not jumping back into the truck until shortly before it reached that single strand of wire.
 
So, we raise sheep. Have had some very mean rams that you could not turn your back on or they would charge. The guy we have now is a very good disposition. Does not even toss his head. Question: are there bulls that are very tame or not really worth trying to find out?
 
Yes, not all bulls are straight up mean. We use Red Angus bulls, and have only had 1 out of about the last dozen that I really had concerns with. It was sold soon after. That said, I'm always aware when I'm around our bulls, always respect them and their space, but am never "afraid".
 
(quoted from post at 18:46:42 04/23/17) So, we raise sheep. Have had some very mean rams that you could not turn your back on or they would charge. The guy we have now is a very good disposition. Does not even toss his head. Question: are there bulls that are very tame or not really worth trying to find out?
I know a guy that sits on his bull. I don't turn my back on it and keep my distance though. I been around other bulls you just plain gave them room and didn't take a nice truck in the field.
 
My brother "caught" a Guernsey bull by the nose ring, two fingers in the ring. Both running, he went on one side of the tree and the bull on the other.
Neither were very happy with the outcome. Last bull on the farm; steers after that.
 
They do not have to be big to be mean or dangerous, the heifer that broke my leg weighed less then 400 pounds. I just let the folks in town that I was riding a bull that weighed 1800 pounds, I never corrected their lies lest they think I am a sissy!
 
Yes, there are bulls that are quite tame. Only problem is 2000 lb of beef that wants his ears scratched can throw you into the wall if you are not paying him enough attention.

And then I have had the ones that were fine to be around on foot, but drive a piece of equipment into the pen and they would take after it. I had one bull pick a fight with a dozer one day while pushing snow away from the feed bunks. All you can do is sit there and laugh as he tries to butt the blade into submission. That one never did learn that he wouldn't win against a Cat.
 
guys this bull was ok ,til he got his walkin papers.,then he got crazy when he figured out in the sortin corral that he was IT ,., he destroyed some of my 80 dollar gates ,on the 3rd try i had tractors and wagons and round balers bakt up to the corral panels , i could not even get that ornerey devil ,to get within a 100 ft of the corral then ,and he stared down 6 goodmen to let him get by ,,.HE Means BizniZ. !... Big Ol RED Wild EYED SANDY SAM.is probably 8yrs old , sandy tan hide with dim dark tiger stripes,,. he is hienz57.but good stok,,. always got good calves from him 15 -1600 lbs ///////// i just got back from the yards , next time i will see him again will be at mc donalds ,. HERE is How I Got Him BY MYSELF !. Today i took the stok trailer behind DB 1210 out to his comfort zone in the pasture under the trees ,,. he knows that D Brown means gtound feed ,. so here they all come , i opened the back panel against a tree , poured out a bucket of feed up toward the front, and then exited thru the little walk thruside door ,. i only pushed it to , because by then i already had a MRs . and Mr Sam nosing at the end door way on the opposite side , and i didnt want to spook them with the noisey latch ,. i stayed down low out of site near the end gate, the rest of the 20 or more eyeing mea little bewarely . i glimpsed and one Mrs . was up there getting Mr Sams feed , and he aint much for sharin , , i crouched back down next to the wheel,. in about 20 seconds i felt the trailer take on more weight, SAMS front legs , now all the other gals were linin up ,Too, when all 4 legs were in i gave that gate a mightey swing and knokt his az in the rest of the way , it latched and HE ANGRILY whirled around ,. that movem ent caused the side door to open, i quikly slammed it before he saw the opening and latched it ,.. then split RED Sandy SAm from his lady with the divider gate,. oh Boy Was He ever Mad .. but i got Him Boys ! , his replacement is a 700 lbs nice tame angus
 
Meanest ram I ever had ( a Dorset) would sneak up behind you and just LEAN his head against your butt - sucker weighed 200# - result - you moved. He wouldn't butt or get nasty, just LEANED. I taught him who was the boss, gently (not so much) applied my boot to his (almost on the ground) sensitive area and we were pals after that ! ;^)
 
They can all get BAD MAD if the wrong circumstances come up. I got tagged by a GENTLE Hereford cow Friday. She over loaded on cornstalks, and I treated her out there. Went to walk away from her, and she tried to steal my Wrangler patch. Got a sore leg out of the deal somehow.
 
Growing up we had Simmental bulls. They THOUGHT they could jump 5 wire fences. They would leap and get their head and front legs over easily - their back legs barely left the ground though. They weren't really mean - just didn't respect fences when they were being pushed or if a neighbor's cows were in heat. We wintered them on our home place and I think our neighbor's entire dairy herd was bred by our two bulls.
 

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