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<blockquote data-quote="inyati13" data-source="post: 1146560" data-attributes="member: 17767"><p>I bought my Angus bull about 3 years ago from Wright Angus, Paris, KY. When I visited John Wright to select a bull, he wanted me to see their herd bulls before I went to the pasture to select my bull. There were a dozen mature bulls. He has a couple buckets of mixed feed. He poured it on a bare spot on the ground. The bulls came and we walked right into the bunch. I asked John about being in the position we were. He said my family has raised Angus for over a 100 years right here. My mother was 91 years old and walked the herd bulls from pasture to pasture with a bucket of feed. I can see her in my mind, a tobacco stick in one hand and a bucket of feed in the other leading a dozen angus bulls. She gave them a lick with the stick if they misbehaved.</p><p></p><p>John is older than I, probably near 70. He said they never had a bull on the farm that caused any trouble. He did tell me about 4 stories of cows that he said were absolutely crazy. Someone mentioned shooting a bull, John said they had a cow that they had no choice but to shoot her. Every attempt he and his brother made failed. He also told a story of getting a tranqulizer gun from a vet to deal with another cow.</p><p></p><p>But he said the bulls have been carefully selected for docility and new bulls they bring in to inject new genes are screened for docility above all else. He said they never had a bull make an attack. The danger of being in a group, he said was when they push each other.</p><p></p><p>I no longer have that bull as I am going in a bit of a different direction. But that bull, true to John's words was extremely docile. I scratched him anywhere he was. He walked the fence with my neighbor's bull and mine never acted up. He never carried on but he bred every cow that came into heat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inyati13, post: 1146560, member: 17767"] I bought my Angus bull about 3 years ago from Wright Angus, Paris, KY. When I visited John Wright to select a bull, he wanted me to see their herd bulls before I went to the pasture to select my bull. There were a dozen mature bulls. He has a couple buckets of mixed feed. He poured it on a bare spot on the ground. The bulls came and we walked right into the bunch. I asked John about being in the position we were. He said my family has raised Angus for over a 100 years right here. My mother was 91 years old and walked the herd bulls from pasture to pasture with a bucket of feed. I can see her in my mind, a tobacco stick in one hand and a bucket of feed in the other leading a dozen angus bulls. She gave them a lick with the stick if they misbehaved. John is older than I, probably near 70. He said they never had a bull on the farm that caused any trouble. He did tell me about 4 stories of cows that he said were absolutely crazy. Someone mentioned shooting a bull, John said they had a cow that they had no choice but to shoot her. Every attempt he and his brother made failed. He also told a story of getting a tranqulizer gun from a vet to deal with another cow. But he said the bulls have been carefully selected for docility and new bulls they bring in to inject new genes are screened for docility above all else. He said they never had a bull make an attack. The danger of being in a group, he said was when they push each other. I no longer have that bull as I am going in a bit of a different direction. But that bull, true to John's words was extremely docile. I scratched him anywhere he was. He walked the fence with my neighbor's bull and mine never acted up. He never carried on but he bred every cow that came into heat. [/QUOTE]
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