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<blockquote data-quote="Nite Hawk" data-source="post: 1293083" data-attributes="member: 18682"><p>Worry too much about temperament or disease???</p><p>Disease costs MONEY and often slows down rate of gain..</p><p>Isn't that what most cattle raisers are trying to do-make money??</p><p>Concerning temperament..</p><p>In our neck of the woods on different ranches in this area I have seen many ,many extremely wild and yes violent cattle, where they literally would hunt you and deliberately smash into either you, or try to take a horse out from under a rider. </p><p>I am not talking about a cornered animal with a calf, I am talking about insane animals that would race across a 20 acre pasture and try to take a horse and rider down. </p><p>We have seen it, believe it or not. </p><p>We have had –yes angus steers when released from a squeeze with nothing more than the hair clipped off so the brand inspector could see the brand, put family members on top of the squeeze and then try to climb the squeeze so they could kill and smash humans.</p><p>We are used to range raised animals, not pasture raised, where they only see a human a few times a summer, and some are extremely spooky, and others can be extremely aggressive, where other animals in the same herd will look at humans cautiously and then move away. Some are so crazy the only cure is the butcher, and others come off the range and calm down and make decent animals that are easy to handle.</p><p>To me temperament is definitely important, as it isn't my idea of fun when half a ton or more of crazy cow with an attitude is headed my way.,They are quite a bit bigger than I am. I have been charged by "snotty" animals more than once, simply because I existed. </p><p>Not only that, wild and spooky cattle stir everyone else up, and they don't fatten or finish well either..</p><p>To me temperament is important..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nite Hawk, post: 1293083, member: 18682"] Worry too much about temperament or disease??? Disease costs MONEY and often slows down rate of gain.. Isn’t that what most cattle raisers are trying to do-make money?? Concerning temperament.. In our neck of the woods on different ranches in this area I have seen many ,many extremely wild and yes violent cattle, where they literally would hunt you and deliberately smash into either you, or try to take a horse out from under a rider. I am not talking about a cornered animal with a calf, I am talking about insane animals that would race across a 20 acre pasture and try to take a horse and rider down. We have seen it, believe it or not. We have had –yes angus steers when released from a squeeze with nothing more than the hair clipped off so the brand inspector could see the brand, put family members on top of the squeeze and then try to climb the squeeze so they could kill and smash humans. We are used to range raised animals, not pasture raised, where they only see a human a few times a summer, and some are extremely spooky, and others can be extremely aggressive, where other animals in the same herd will look at humans cautiously and then move away. Some are so crazy the only cure is the butcher, and others come off the range and calm down and make decent animals that are easy to handle. To me temperament is definitely important, as it isn’t my idea of fun when half a ton or more of crazy cow with an attitude is headed my way.,They are quite a bit bigger than I am. I have been charged by “snotty” animals more than once, simply because I existed. Not only that, wild and spooky cattle stir everyone else up, and they don’t fatten or finish well either.. To me temperament is important.. [/QUOTE]
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