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Originally posted by Bakes:
Wow all these storys about bulls. Makes me glad I'm going to get a Dexter...they're little

We have a Dexter bull at home that we use over the Murray Grey heifers. He is pretty quite and throws great calves but I still dont trust the bastard

9FSB across the road has camels...perhaps I can ride one of them into town...

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He is pretty quite and throws great calves but I still dont trust the bastard

Oscar, if it gives me any grief...I'll just eat him!

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Originally posted by Bakes:

Oscar, if it gives me any grief...I'll just eat him!

I have informed the one at home on several occasions that if he steps out of line his next stop will be the freezer.

I'm looking at a couple of Dexters and perhaps a little fat Dorper to fatten up. It would be nice to grow my own instead of buying my meat in.

I have killed 3 elephant , 4 aussie buf and a Cape buf amoungst many other animals.The NT and Cape York scrub bull is one of the most aggresive animals I have ever seen.They will attack a vehicle if in the mood.They are not the smartest or toughest but come face to face with one in a tiny washout as I did and it will test the strenghth of your anal sphinter to the max.They are completely fearless.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land-
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand-
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

Jersey's bulls are also dangerous down here...!!!!! Bloody bastards, if you don't pay atention to them they will hurt you.

Any bull breeder knows that the tame bulls are the ones that sooner or later will hurt you...

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As a kid on the farm, I had a "tame" holstein bull that I used to ride, he was so tame. One day that tame bull damned near killed me as I was leading him from one pasture to another. Luckily his horns were weighted and turned down so he didn't gore me, he merely tossed me about ten feet in the air, then tried to grind me into the dirt, breaking four ribs in the process. I stuck my thumb in one of his eyes to get him to stop. After my ribs healed, I killed that SOB with a 12 ga. slug to the head! I never enjoyed a steak so much!

We had a neighbor that had a couple dozen Holstein young stock get out of the pasture and into a nearby marsh. We were able to round up all but three over a period of a couple months.

The remaining three went feral quickly and were very tough to hunt down. We killed one standing at the base of a small tree. IN the tree was the very frightened 16 year old son of the farmer who had been charged and chased up the tree! When the bull charged, the kid panicked and missed with his single shot shotgun. Lucky for him he was near the only tree for at least 500 yards!

Last story. One of my daughters married a dairy farmer. Her mother in law was seriously injured by a bull that had never shown any aggressive tendencies, to the point they thought she might not make it, and if she did, she might lose her right arm. Luckily she did pull through and has limited use of her arm, but that bull no longer walks the face of the Earth either.

All bovines are very powerful animals and if you don't take them serious, you're asking for trouble. With feral cattle, even more so.