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Maxxum120

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Wales
Making progress getting it empty still a few feet yet 🙈
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som farmer

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somerset
Making progress getting it empty still a few feet yet 🙈
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ours is near empty, ran out of diesel ! I know it's nominal depth, but near empty it looks enormous, and l bet our EA twit doesn't turn up, to make sure we don't spread it the closed period - tomorrow, he could actually walk in and measure it.
But by next spring, we will be desperate to get some out !
 

Sid

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South Molton
you should never send an animal to mkt, if you know he's likely to get nasty, full stop. It's not safe, and it's dangerous, and busy mkts put all animals well out of their comfort zones.
So sell direct.
But the hauler overnights the irritable bull in his lairage despite you specifically saying that you want him to go direct to slaughter!
 

Cowmansam

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Livestock Farmer
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Shropshire
We took a dexter bull to the slaughter house after it had hospitalised my dad for a month told all the men it was a nutter backed to the loading ramp and it wouldn’t come out the trailer three lads come out laughing saying what’s that little thing going to do it bust the pair of them in one straight up in the air the one who went to run for the gate came off worse got pinned straight to it then the old fella came out and shot it in the yard with a 12 bore slug so some times even when you tell them people are stupid enough not to listen
 
We ran jersey bulls for years. I bet very few people have ever been killed by Jersey bulls despite their terrible reputation because they give you plenty of warning of their intension to kill you. Many of our would be roaring and snorting of they could see you half a mile off.

The worst by a mile were the hand reared pet ones and the best by a mile were those that were reared on a nurse cow and rarely saw a human until they were weaned at 8/10 months.

It takes two Herefords bulls to do the work of one jersey bull.
 

sidjon

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We ran jersey bulls for years. I bet very few people have ever been killed by Jersey bulls despite their terrible reputation because they give you plenty of warning of their intension to kill you. Many of our would be roaring and snorting of they could see you half a mile off.

The worst by a mile were the hand reared pet ones and the best by a mile were those that were reared on a nurse cow and rarely saw a human until they were weaned at 8/10 months.

It takes two Herefords bulls to do the work of one jersey bull.
That's cause the Herefords are half asleep most of the time 🤣, our jersey bulls would shag the cows night and day and when they got bored try their luck with next-doors too🙈🤣
 

Full of bull(s)

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North Yorkshire
I read somewhere I’m sure on here that bulls should be reared by a dedicated rearer who never sees them after about six months and whoever looks after them after that should never see them beforehand. Otherwise they grow up seeing you as one of the herd, someone to beat in the pecking order. There was a guy from New Zealand on here who used to mob graze hundreds of B/W bulls over two years old, think it was him but can’t think of his name.
 

cows sh#t me to tears

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Rarely have a problem with grown working bulls. (Having said that I did have a 6ft friesan try his hardest to kill me. Chased me across an 8ft drain that I almost cleared.....and just got me. I managed to put a trough between him and myself. But he was still stalking me. My fault. I broke MY rule of always have a stick....).
I find young half grown bulls in with heifers are the most dangerous, yet easiest to train....with a stick. Had a few try it on when feeding them and opening gates. Like I said. A quick belt across the nose puts them in their place. Run and its game over. You need to be able to call their bluff.
Dad was nearly killed by one half grown that chased him around a hay bale till it got him. Then it kept coming back and having multiple goes at him whilst he was lying on the ground.
Both bulls went to the abattoirs. Strange thing was both had come from the same master breeder. Haven't bought a beast from them since.
 

som farmer

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somerset
So sell direct.
But the hauler overnights the irritable bull in his lairage despite you specifically saying that you want him to go direct to slaughter!
nothing is perfect, but that is better than a bull, going nuts, at a market. Cow wise, some are mkt, and some direct, depending of animal condition. Shooting on farm, is an unwelcome cost.
Can you still get an organic bonus on cows, or has that disappeared with the rising prices, just like the foreign cows, deduction, has gone.
 

Cowmansam

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Shropshire
I just think bucket reared animals haven’t got the fear a cow reared ones does so more inclined to try push you about in an open environment I’d say If you cornered one of each the cow reared ones would be more likely to take you out though
 

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