Recent content by Ratfish

He's just been eating grass with the occasional apple.

The previous owner said that they were de-wormed and had all shots.

I'm wondering if that's normal since it is a big difference in a fairly short amount of time. He doesn't seem to be hindered by it much at all.

I thought the general trend was away from large-structured cattle in favor of compact, boxy breeds like angus; and even then the angus people are trying to go smaller. It's too bad, I think charolais are great looking cattle.

So this is different than a black baldie? A real scam would be if their balls were plastic and duct taped on and you actually had steers.

That's exactly the look I would want in a Hereford bull (or any type for that matter). I may be wrong, but it always seemed to me like their horns are a bit safer than those of other breeds.

dun: A bull and a steer get along alright?

Not sure how great that analogy is since you are comparing an undernourished human to a bull that is eating what it is designed to eat. It's not that forage is a low-protein diet, it's that it is a normal diet and the other feeds are high-protein.

I'm no expert but that bull looks great for being so young.

Must have a pretty good zoom on the camera for that first pic. Really nice bull.

Sounds like a lot of the problems occur when the cattle are confined inside some kind of structure. Am I safer since they are going to be out in an open pasture for almost all of the time unless one gets sick or we have to move them between pastures? One thing I noticed is that they have an...

So, are all bulls dangerous or is it possible for one to be calm?

Yeah, it does sound like the heifers are more dangerous than the bulls.

If you've ever been injured, what injury, how did it happen and what type of animal was it? I've been playing it safe so far and none of our steers have shown any kind aggressiveness but I want to be able to avoid anything dangerous by seeing the warning signs. So far I have always been...

How did it happen?