Posted by JimJoanie on December 05, 2008 at 08:04:33 from (205.188.117.74):
In Reply to: Anyone raise Bison? posted by relaurain on December 05, 2008 at 06:30:20:
Sounds like best place for yout to start is National Bison Association. http://www.bisoncentral.com Then go talk to some producers.
My best friend and I looked into them in 80's. Bison people are among the most friendly and helpfull people you will meet.
There are two different strains of bison, plains and woods. Plains most common.
You looking at a 1200 lb animal that can run 40 mph, jump six feet, and can have the temperment of a pissed off mother in law. This especially true during rut season and calving season.
If they can get their head over the fence, it will come down. Quite a few producers put in high tensile fencing 10 to 12 feet high. Very expense fencing.
A herd will generally have a picking order, which is established starting at a young age. A calf will start pushing against you with it's head. If you push back, they will push harder, it is their way of establishing dominance. Know of one bison handler whose pet bison gored him doing this. Young calf's like to nibble on jeans also.
They can lift a tractor off the ground with their horns.
You will have to establish areas in your pasture you can get too to protect yourself, some producers build two walls of railroad ties, with a narrow walkway between them to run to in event of trouble. Also want to round off any corners in your pasture.
The are more diease resistant than cattle, and will use their hoofs to break ice to get at water, and use their heads to move snow to get at feed.
They are intelligent, one producer put in railroad rails over a pit at the entrance of his pasture. The bison looked at the rails, stepped on each rail and got out. He had to put rollers on the rails to keep them in.
Recently in Illinois, south of Chicago, a small herd got out by I-55. They wound up shooting them rather than trying to round them up and bringing them home.
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