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Feb 8, 2019 9:39:16 GMT -5
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Post by rangersedge on Feb 8, 2019 9:39:16 GMT -5
I still remember mom and dad always warning us kids to watch out for the bulls. That said, I can't recall any really exciting instances with a bull.
It seems like a brother had purchased a Jersey bull to use with some heifers once that turned out to be unpredictable enough to go bye bye long ago and I distinctly remember some beautiful Chiana heifers he had purchased that were so spooky and high strung that they quickly went bye bye too.
I guess you could accurately say we have always culled pretty harshly for temperment.
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Bovine!!
Feb 8, 2019 10:33:14 GMT -5
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Post by kings6 on Feb 8, 2019 10:33:14 GMT -5
I am the same way on culling for temperament. Spooky or hard to handle animals don’t stay long. My last two farm bred calves were from my Scottish Highland cows and a very high quality Black Angus bull. The heifer was more standoffish and flighty and her brother was the easiest going teddy bear of a steer. When it came time to butcher in the late spring she is the one I had dropped even though she was the smaller of the two.
Her easy going brother went last spring as a 3 year old and he hung 999# on the rail and is the best beef we have ever had. Well marbled, tender and great flavor. He never had a bite of grain in his life, just farm raised hay and green grass on rotated pasture. He never ran a step that I saw, just laid around in his laid back manner and grew. Shoot, if he had been a punk kid, he would have been too lazy to steal!
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Post by crazycarl on Feb 8, 2019 14:18:15 GMT -5
We had a couple Angus calves that were bottle fed, as mama died birthing & none of the other cows would adopt them. Sweet & funny when they're little, but dangerous as hell as playful yearlings.
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Post by rangersedge on Feb 8, 2019 22:27:56 GMT -5
My most exciting times involved cows with fairly newborn baby calves. Sometimes, they were born on bank of pond or creek and needed moved before they fell in or out in cold muddy lot and needed carried into shed. New moms often didn't appreciate our help, but that protectiveness didn't count against them much.
Always been told to never play with baby calf's head or let them head butt you. May be cute at 80 pounds, but not at 800.
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