O?T The bull's out!!!!!!!

cj in wisconsin · Jun 23, 2009

I just recently finished my new pasture and let the girls into it along with Big Red, the red Angus bull, built my fence 5 wires with 4 barb high tensile. Share a border fence with the neighbor, that is 25 years old and only four wire 2 barb. So I had the plan to run electric on the four wire this weekend. Well you guessed it, old bully boy walked right through that 4 wire and broke three of them. Fortunately I had a plan to bring the bull to another farm this weekend also, so I brought a bag of his favorite treats, salted in the shell peanuts, and walked him right in the trailer and brought him to his new harem. He looked happy as he walked into the fog with his "new ladies". But I absolutely hate that 11 PM call saying "your bull is out", it never comes during the weekend or during the day when you are not all hunkered down for the night! All is well however, finally got the Oliver 1755 put together and rolled up some big bales with it last night, what an upgrade from the old JD 720. Still love the old JD but it's not a real good machine for certain chores.

TomTex · Jun 23, 2009

If my bull walked through a barbed wire fence and broke 3 strands, I would load him just like you did, but the trip would be to the auction ring. Once they start the fence tearing, it just gets worse. Tom

Tom in NE · Jun 23, 2009

Tom in Texas is right. Once they go thru a fence they"ll do it again. Dad had a Hereford bull that started doing it. We finally had to put a brass ring thru his nose and Dad attached a 2 foot chain or so to the ring. I can"t remember him breaking down a fence after that.
Tom

Errin OH · Jun 23, 2009

"I absolutely hate that 11 PM call saying "your bull is out", it never comes during the weekend or during the day when you are not all hunkered down for the night!"

Well don't go on vacation. I had 8 head decided the day after we left for Yellowstone to take down a woven wire fence with barb on top and proceed to head south. They had been in that pasture for almost a year with zero trouble. The sitter had feed them that am and all was well (he called me from the farm that morning to verify instructions). I got a call from the sherrif later in the day saying that when I get back in two weeks they are pined up about a mile down the road. Smart (or dumb) b@st@rds.

I was able to arrange the return within a few days but what a headache......

IH2444 · Jun 23, 2009

Low impedance electric high tensile!

just another old geezer · Jun 23, 2009

I absolutely hate that 11 PM call saying "your bull is out", it never comes during the weekend or during the day when you are not all hunkered down for the night!

Nothing like a "MIDNIGHT RODEO" to make a preson consider a change of occupations. Been there. Done that. Never liked it.

tjdub · Jun 23, 2009

We always had problems with our bull escaping over/through the 5 strand barbed-wire on railroad ties around our barn yard. Finally decided to bite the bullet and re-do it with tall cattle panels on railroad ties spaced about 6 ft apart. Re-enforced the ties with more ties as braces at the top of the panels. This fence was not to be reconned with; It was a sight to be seen. That May the bull smashed the tube gate to get out with the cows. From that day on, bulls stay locked in the barn until it's time to work, no exceptions.

kyplowboy · Jun 23, 2009

I work public work at night, so when ever something goes wrong durring the day people call me cause I am home durring the day and "ain't" doing anything. Few weeks ago my brother was use'n/feeding my grandmother's bull. His neighbor called at one in the after noon. Older lady next door had called and said there was a bull standing on the yellow line of HWY 41. He and my brother were both at work. I took off to go see what I could do. One mile before I got there people were flashing there lights at me. Sick feeling set in, then I see blue lights right between brother and neighbor's house. I was real sick, I just knew he had killed a bus full of nuns and baby bunnies. Turns out a county mounty had just drove up one Knotthead standing in the middle of the road and looking a people drive'n round him. Makes me glad I have a mile buffer between me and a 2 lane for sure.

Dave

Walterdavies · Jun 23, 2009

Could be a very nice bull but I personally would get rid of him and get one that isn't a fence jumper. My 3000 lb Limousin stays on the property and keeps others out. He is well know all around the area as the big Black Bull near Cooper Hollow Road.
Walt

fixerupper · Jun 23, 2009

What's the matter, didn't he like the girls he was with? We used to get those calls too.

Our neighbor had a Charolais bull that had a hankering for dad's cows and would come to visit on a regular basis. I'd had enough of his romances so I finally got him in the barn and planned to load him in our pickup with a stock rack on it and haul him to the sale barn, with the owner's permission, of course. I think the stock rack was an Omaha Standard, so with the top folded up, the sides were six feet tall, or therabouts. I got the bull up the chute and in the pickup and it instantly went up over the side, landing on the ground in a heap. What a sight! He was a little stunned so I got him back in the barn and this time when he went in the pickup he was looking up at cattle panels tied across the top of the rack so he couldn't jump. I did get him to the sale barn but the pickup was rockin and rollin the whole way. Jim

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