Bullocks

honeyend

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According to wiki

I would consider a bullock and older entire male, but not not fully mature.
Steer castrated male.
Beast, usually a group term for growing young stock usually male.

With horses a castrated horse is a gelding, entire its a colt until it turns three, and then it becomes a stallion.
 

Old Tip

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Location
Cumbria
We would still call a castrated male a bullock, a stick is a weaned calf up to a year old. Beast is a term usually used by older butchers and slaughter men, i would book them in as fat beasts
 

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
Around here stirk is a common term for something between weaning and going out to first season grass then we would refer to any cattle as beasts or plural is pronounced beese or bease.
As in 'see that beast over there' or 'how many beese have you entered for the sale?'
And never weaning but speaning (as in spaining). Presume similar in other parts.
Also used for insects or wee animals as in Burns' poem "tim'rous beastie'
 

Whitepeak

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Livestock Farmer
For me I think of a bullock as being a castrated male over 12/18mths that would typically be grazed for 1 or 2 summers. Whereas as steer is the intensively finished equivalent.
Stirks is now what most auctioneers term weanlings.
 

Cmoran

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Galway Ireland
Bullocks here are any castrated male cattle in the mart locally the sale runs bullocks, cull cows, suckler cows,aged heifers,weanling heifers and bull weanlings. Never heard of stirks or steers until I joined this forum also in sheep we have ram lambs Wether lambs ewe lambs ewe Hoggets aged ewes and rams but it seems different in every country
 

Cowgirl

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Ayrshire
Around here stirk is a common term for something between weaning and going out to first season grass then we would refer to any cattle as beasts or plural is pronounced beese or bease.
As in 'see that beast over there' or 'how many beese have you entered for the sale?'
And never weaning but speaning (as in spaining). Presume similar in other parts.
Also used for insects or wee animals as in Burns' poem "tim'rous beastie'
When I first worked in Dumfriesshire I was constantly confused by the language- apart from stirks and speaning, there was “clit ill” (pronounced clitl) ie foul in the foot, “weeded“ ie mastitis and loads of others I can’t remember. Ashamed to say I’m still not sure what a “stot” is?
 

Netherfield

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Location
West Yorkshire
Confused to hell when a chap from down south east rings up, 'there's a load of bullocks due to arrive with you soon'

Driver rolls in to the yard and drops the door on the drawbar trailer, about 16 Heifers come out, I'm saying ' I think you've got the wrong lot here they're all female'.

Then opens the truck and all the steers come out, hands me a stack of passports, and he says 'all I know is all these bullocks is for you'.
 

goodevans

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When I first worked in Dumfriesshire I was constantly confused by the language- apart from stirks and speaning, there was “clit ill” (pronounced clitl) ie foul in the foot, “weeded“ ie mastitis and loads of others I can’t remember. Ashamed to say I’m still not sure what a “stot” is?
I think your foul in the foot could be termed as foul in the something else and not so pleasant
 

Stuart J

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Mixed Farmer
Location
UK
Stots. Castrated males.
Bullocks. Rarely used , castrated males.
Stirks. Either sex, from weaning age to coming back inside. Approx
 

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