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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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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