Bull Hurts Older Lady

[aplusmnt]

My wife is a respiratory Therapist at Hospital in Joplin MO. Last night she come home telling me about a new patient she had. It was an older lady (wife guessed her to be 70-80 years old) that was in Hospital with a Broken Leg and some other misc injuries.

Turns out she was hurt by her 1 year old bull. She told my wife that she raises a bunch of different animal as a Hobby and the bull was her Pet (that was her exact words her pet). Guess she has two heifers and the one year old bull.

She was out feeding her chickens and the bull came up and she fed it some feed out of her hand, then put some on the ground for him. But she said he did not pay attention to the feed she put out for him and wanted what was in her hand for the Chickens.

Well I guess he butted her with his head and threw her up over a car that was out in the field. When she screamed for her son he grabbed and gun and she was yelling for him not shoot the bull he did not mean to do any harm, he just wanted the feed she had.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

It is so sad that people don't understand "bulls are not pets". They grow up!

 

[ffscj]

They grow up!

Maybe

Chris

 

[EIEIO]

Sunday morning I was checking on my last 2 cows left to calve. I had ridden out to check them on the ATV and had also brought along some range cubes to dump out so I could do a quick herd check. I usually will feed out 25-50 pounds a week just to keep the cattle tame to me and also so I can keep an eye on them for any problems.

Anyway, no new calves and I dumped out the cubes. Folded up the bag like always and tucked it under my arm and headed back to the ATV. Heard something behind me and spun around just in time to see a mama cow with it's head to the ground looking for cubes. Was getting ready to whack her to keep her back when she raised her head up REAL fast and caught me in the hip sending me flying like a rag doll.

Still a bit sore today. Got to always be careful and I sure thought I was Mr. Careful but got a big surprise. Lucky for the cow it was an accident otherwise I would have put 2 in her head there on the spot and spent the rest of the morning being a shade tree butcher.

J

 

[jw]

Folded up the bag like always and tucked it under my arm and headed back to the ATV. Heard something behind me and spun around just in time to see a mama cow with it's head to the ground looking for cubes.

I learned in this type of situation that if you will just throw the bag out away from you that the cow or bull who is coming toward you will generally turn toward the bag. They know that the bag has the cubes and that is what they are after.