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<blockquote data-quote="ddg1263" data-source="post: 555465" data-attributes="member: 8445"><p>I think you are right.. I just need to sell him and take the loss. But the bad problem is I really can't afford the loss. It will set me back a bunch. As for all the comments, I want to thank each of you for taking the time to respond. I am new to cattle so I really can't tell when I am in trouble for my life or just some sparing going on. This baby calf was as calm as a new born baby when I bought him but when I got him to my corral I put him by himself to feed him out. One day I went into the pen to feed him and he was sitting in a straw bed in the corner of the barn and I approached him and he got up and charged me hard (he was cornered).. It ran me out of the pen and fast. That was on his second day on my farm, and I guess he has never forgotten it. The next day I got two cows and put them in with him and I stated feeding them in individual barrels on the ground everyday, and it calmed him down A LOT. I did this for 2 months, and from time to time I would bring in a bucket of feed and hand feed him and he would eat the entire bucket with me standing there holding the bucket hip high. He has calmed down a lot as I can just stand there and feed him those buckets of food, but at the end sometimes he wants to approach me aggressively and when he does I approach him back with the bucket in his face. He will back up and turn away most of the time. Sometimes he will stand there, and I will exit. The other cows fighting for the food helped him understand that this food was good to eat. Now after 2 months he is growing and he is calmer but he has made a couple of aggressive steps towards me and I have a pipe in my hand to beat him if he really comes after me. I am sure he would win but I have had that pipe just in case. Most of the time he will blow and turn his head and walk away several feet away. I think one time someone was feeding him and he bumped them on his behind (not hard but not playful either), it did not hurt them but it defiantly scared them (this was when we first got him.) Also know that I can enter the pen and put the feed in and leave with NO incident at all. I am not sure how he will grow up, but I sure do not need to take the loss on him but my life is way more important than dealing with him hurting me. Thanks for the advice, and everything that you have all said is valuable to me as I have thought the same many times. I just do not know if I am over reacting to an incident or if I have a real problem on my hands. I do think I need to stop hand feeding him with a bucket and just put the feed in his pen and leave. Also He has a big pen now with plenty of ranging room for him to graze. </p><p></p><p>God Bless all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ddg1263, post: 555465, member: 8445"] I think you are right.. I just need to sell him and take the loss. But the bad problem is I really can’t afford the loss. It will set me back a bunch. As for all the comments, I want to thank each of you for taking the time to respond. I am new to cattle so I really can’t tell when I am in trouble for my life or just some sparing going on. This baby calf was as calm as a new born baby when I bought him but when I got him to my corral I put him by himself to feed him out. One day I went into the pen to feed him and he was sitting in a straw bed in the corner of the barn and I approached him and he got up and charged me hard (he was cornered).. It ran me out of the pen and fast. That was on his second day on my farm, and I guess he has never forgotten it. The next day I got two cows and put them in with him and I stated feeding them in individual barrels on the ground everyday, and it calmed him down A LOT. I did this for 2 months, and from time to time I would bring in a bucket of feed and hand feed him and he would eat the entire bucket with me standing there holding the bucket hip high. He has calmed down a lot as I can just stand there and feed him those buckets of food, but at the end sometimes he wants to approach me aggressively and when he does I approach him back with the bucket in his face. He will back up and turn away most of the time. Sometimes he will stand there, and I will exit. The other cows fighting for the food helped him understand that this food was good to eat. Now after 2 months he is growing and he is calmer but he has made a couple of aggressive steps towards me and I have a pipe in my hand to beat him if he really comes after me. I am sure he would win but I have had that pipe just in case. Most of the time he will blow and turn his head and walk away several feet away. I think one time someone was feeding him and he bumped them on his behind (not hard but not playful either), it did not hurt them but it defiantly scared them (this was when we first got him.) Also know that I can enter the pen and put the feed in and leave with NO incident at all. I am not sure how he will grow up, but I sure do not need to take the loss on him but my life is way more important than dealing with him hurting me. Thanks for the advice, and everything that you have all said is valuable to me as I have thought the same many times. I just do not know if I am over reacting to an incident or if I have a real problem on my hands. I do think I need to stop hand feeding him with a bucket and just put the feed in his pen and leave. Also He has a big pen now with plenty of ranging room for him to graze. God Bless all! [/QUOTE]
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