Buffalo

He was working as a cowboy (he had rodeo clowned for years, so he was no stranger to livestock and he was tough as anyone you'd ever run into), and somehow they were trying to cut a bison from the herd of cattle when he fell/slipped/was hooked into/whatever the corral. It took the other guys 15 minutes to get a rifle up there and kill it and by that time, he was dead.

Them being so wild is one reason...

Howard

Ted Turner owns a couple big ranches about 20 miles from us and raises lots of buffalo on 'em. The cost of fences required alone would put an average rancher out of business. And Ted must have good fences- haven't heard any complaints from people who's land borders him about buffalo getting out....although there's TONS of complaints when he comes in to buy more land and outbids adjoining landowners and pays huge prices per acre, thus making everyone's property tax go up...Ted's the largest private landowner in the state of Nebraska.

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KEH

I don't know anything about buffalos, but I would guess that the reason most people don't raise them is the same as the reason that most people don't raise emus, rabbits, goats, etc. There is a very limited demand for them and very few processors to sell to.

There's a guy near me who has three of them out in his pasture, but I think they are just conversation pieces.

Tom in TN

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