Livestock experiences

[husaberg]

Not nice for the chap who got gored. I hope he makes it.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times...-attack-police

I was rabbit shooting on a run off years ago, the owner grazed about 50 bulls on the place. The bulls seemed to be Fresian x's. Long legged and with attitudes, and they could wind up into a fair gallop. I soon found that most of the fences were half down, gates hanging from one hinge and bulls in small groups that would follow me along the fencelines bellowing away. Not fun.

An old farmer told me of his uncle being killed by a Jersey bull knocking the chap to the ground and driving the front knees and head into the uncles body.

Any one else had the wind put up them by bulls or horses?

Bulls are generally pretty easy to deal with as they are not flighty.
They know they are tougher than you so generally don't give a shit.

I guy I know son was killed while loading a large service bull. But it was a freak occurrence more to do with shear size than any aggresion
In my experience a beef cow with calf at foot is far more dangerous.
Jersey bulls esp yearling and 2 year olds do have aggression far exceeding there size.
When people are running beef bull generally the mobs are keep below 50 in order to let the pecking order be sorted. (they fight when the order is not clear)
If you have ever seen how strong a Large beef bull is lifting another up they are to be treated with respect.
In the 20 or so years I dealt with Cattle I can honestly say I have only had 3 scares and a few bruises, but all of them have been me taking short cuts.

Far more people are injured by sheep.

[Virago]

...Far more people are injured by sheep.

Or in Akzle's case - goats.

[husaberg]

Or in Akzle's case - goats.

Granted, but he eats the goat afterwards, I hope that's what he meant. who cares he's a JAFFA.

[F5 Dave]

We just had a supposedly free range chicken over for dinner. In some rosemary and honey. I'm not sure if violence was involved. They can be pretty fierce I understand. There were potatoes involved.

[Flip]

When I was younger we has one agressive bull on the family dairy farm.All I can say is that he was delicious.

[awa355]

I have watched a Pole Angus bull and a younger Friesan bull have a fair ding dong for the best part of the day. What an impressive display, The Friesan had just been unloaded, and the two were roaring at each other from 100 yards apart. They hit each other head on at speed. the bellowing, the dust, The outcome was pretty much a draw.

Awesome to watch.

[husaberg]

I have watched a Pole Angus bull and a younger Friesan bull have a fair ding dong for the best part of the day. What an impressive display, The Friesan had just been unloaded, and the two were roaring at each other from 100 yards apart. They hit each other head on at speed. the bellowing, the dust, The outcome was pretty much a draw.

Awesome to watch.

Funniest thing I have seen is the guy who used to run a Donkey with his bulls, he said it stopped them fighting.
I couldn't figure it out so I asked him how th eheck that works
He said the Donkey bites the shit out of any of them that are fighting.
The only trouble was the donkey was bloody nuts and was bloody worse to handle than the Bulls and the racket those things make.

[Grumph]

Funniest thing I have seen is the guy who used to run a Donkey with his bulls, he said it stopped them fighting.
I couldn't figure it out so I asked him how th eheck that works
He said the Donkey bites the shit out of any of them that are fighting.
The only trouble was the donkey was bloody nuts and was bloody worse to handle than the Bulls and the racket those things make.

You've just described how MNZ has run for the last few years.....

[awa355]

Funniest thing I have seen is the guy who used to run a Donkey with his bulls, he said it stopped them fighting..

I've heard that before.

To be honest the meanest critters out there in the big outdoors are those lil' fuckers wearing yellow and black.

[Akzle]

I've heard that before.

To be honest the meanest critters out there in the big outdoors are those lil' fuckers wearing yellow and black.

???

[PrincessBandit]

My only experience with live stock on the road taught me of the most important lesson when meeting a herd on the road - wind up your windows! (tail swish...) Probably doesn't apply anymore since lots of areas seem to have stock underpasses these days.

[Paul in NZ]

I used to walk up the Robinson River to a little spot that still held a few red deer (alas not more). The Robinson flows into the Upper Grey River so its West Coast back country.

Access was through a farmed area of river flats where they pretty well turned out steer calves to fatten into a semi fenced area. You got the impression these stroppy buggers didn't see too many people and they were always very very curious. They were in a mob of 50 plus so when there were charging towards you there was a fair old din like the Charge of the Light brigade... More than once the rifle was off the shoulder and we were considering a warning shot through the ear... But they always stopped short and glared... It used to give me the shits frankly...

[Banditbandit]

I had sheep when I lived a bit further south .. I liked them with garlic and rosemary .. potatoes, kumera, peas ...

Livestock can be delicious ..

[rambaldi]

Funniest thing I have seen is the guy who used to run a Donkey with his bulls, he said it stopped them fighting.
I couldn't figure it out so I asked him how th eheck that works
He said the Donkey bites the shit out of any of them that are fighting.
The only trouble was the donkey was bloody nuts and was bloody worse to handle than the Bulls and the racket those things make.

I heard they use Donkey's to protect herds near the jungle in South America. You get cats and what have you come out of the jungle and go for the animals. The donkey's wreck their shit but only if there is only one Donkey. If there are two then they don't care and just protect each other, not the rest of the herds.

[Motu]

they were always very very curious.

Sheep and horses will run away from a bike, but cows are very nosey. We used to get a friendly farmer to let us practice trials on their farms - we'd set up a couple of nasty sections in a stream somewhere and play around. After a while we'd be ringed in by cows watching what we were doing. Move somewhere else in the same paddock and they would crowd around there too. Never had a problem with them, but like human spectators, they didn't have a clue where to stand and not be in the way.