General-Lee
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- Devon
Came up on Facebook.
Chap must be fair winded 0.39!
Helicopting bulls!
Chap must be fair winded 0.39!
Helicopting bulls!
Another way of life!
- Thread starter General-Lee
- Start date
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Bit overkill. Chasing 5 cattle with 2 bikes, umteen dogs and a chopper. No wonder they are hard to handle.
Also carrying with the copter? How many times must that backfire. Ridiculous
Also carrying with the copter? How many times must that backfire. Ridiculous
- Location
- Highland
As above ^^. Got fed up with the macho b*llsh*t halfway through.
Just putting the animals on the defensive FFS. No wonder they go loopy.
Just putting the animals on the defensive FFS. No wonder they go loopy.
Highcountryshepherd
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the only way to handle some of the semi feral cattle out there about 2001 I was on the Chatham Islands cattle like this was the norm I helped gather capture a lot you were equipped with a rifle mob of dogs, didn't herd more than 8 at a time as you couldn't control many more at a time a lot of bulls were shot on sight due to how dangerous they were
M-J-G
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A lot of feral cattle out there will damage fences, infrastructure and breeding plans.
Leaving them just isn't an option.
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
Also read / heard somewhere that in OZ or NZ ?? anything that doesn't come in for TB test has to be put down???
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Feral cattle! Sounds like free beef to me
M-J-G
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Take the helicopter away and is it that much different to catching feral Blackies on a hill and taking it home tied to the bike.
- Location
- South wales
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
I love it when a bunch of people from the u.k who have never handled a feral bull in Australia, pass comment on how a bunch of people in Australia who regularly handle feral bulls. . . . are doing it wrong.
Thank god we have so many experts on here!
Thank god we have so many experts on here!
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Edited to add - most of the scrub bulls go straight to the works, and clean skin beef fetches a very good price!
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I think if you watch him handling the feral bull at 0.39 seconds he could do with a few pointers
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
I think if you watch him handling the feral bull at 0.39 seconds he could do with a few pointers
That’s true. But I was referring to the dogs, bikes and helicopter bit. A couple of folk who worked for me for a good time had come back from a north country station where all they did was catch scrub bulls and mister wild cattle out of the national parks, ones back there now and has made a life of it.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Wish I could justify a helicopter to round my cattle up....looks fun!
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Lad was telling me that many of the cattle they catch have never seen a white man, they try to stand and fight the chopper!
Maybe we could send some vegans to help catch them
especially that joey carbarse and his scouser buddy, then see them stand in the road laughing Fun until you crash! Which a lot of them do.
Those animals aren't wild because of the way they are handled. They are handled like that because they are wild.
Scrub bulls are nothing but a dangerous nuisance
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
And Welsh Mountains. How often have I set all the dogs onto one who won't flock . Usually ends up in the stream or bog hole and then handled onto the quad and home. Just the same as you Antipodeans but on a smaller scale!