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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1710934" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>When you put them back together make sure there is plenty of room and good fences. Most will fight to reestablish pecking order. Like someone else mentioned, there will usually be less fighting if pecking order is obvious, such as a yearling bull with an older larger bull. Sometimes bulls that have been living together peacefully for awhile will decide they want to change the pecking order. You will end up with fights between bulls that were formerly good buddies. </p><p></p><p>We once hauled two equally matched 6 year old bulls that had gotten along great most of their lives, to the facility in our county where several sale barns pick up cattle and haul them to the sales. They were put in the same pen, and apparently sometime before the driver arrived, they turned on each other. Probably because of cows brought in later and unloaded nearby. Those bulls tore the pens apart and the partnership that owns the pens and scales at the collection facility weren't happy. I would have felt guilty if one of their members had not been there when we unloaded. He was the one that ran the bulls into the same pen. I would have probably done the same thing, since these guys had been together their whole life without trouble, but I'm sure glad it wasn't me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1710934, member: 9933"] When you put them back together make sure there is plenty of room and good fences. Most will fight to reestablish pecking order. Like someone else mentioned, there will usually be less fighting if pecking order is obvious, such as a yearling bull with an older larger bull. Sometimes bulls that have been living together peacefully for awhile will decide they want to change the pecking order. You will end up with fights between bulls that were formerly good buddies. We once hauled two equally matched 6 year old bulls that had gotten along great most of their lives, to the facility in our county where several sale barns pick up cattle and haul them to the sales. They were put in the same pen, and apparently sometime before the driver arrived, they turned on each other. Probably because of cows brought in later and unloaded nearby. Those bulls tore the pens apart and the partnership that owns the pens and scales at the collection facility weren't happy. I would have felt guilty if one of their members had not been there when we unloaded. He was the one that ran the bulls into the same pen. I would have probably done the same thing, since these guys had been together their whole life without trouble, but I'm sure glad it wasn't me. [/QUOTE]
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