Regarding docility....

[Jim62]

Docility of a bull is important to me in my small operation (20-25 head), cause I'm just too old to do much bullfighting. I'm bull-shopping now, and another factor I'm trying for is the lack of fence crawling tendencies. I've been using angus, and fence-crawling has been a major problem with the last 3 that I've had. Yes, my fences are in good shape, 5 strand barbed wire. At least they start out in good shape. After the bulls make a trip or two over or under, they generally need some repairs.

So the question is--Do we think there might be a particular breed of black bull that might not manifest this trait? I'm tending toward brangus, 'cause they're pretty handy around here, but have never really dealt with them very much.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

sounds like your dealing more with testosterone, than docility . ive had gentle bulls that get caught up on the homework and go cat'in next door . a brangus will be just as bad if he has a strong labido, sounds like a hot wire is in order

 

[chippie]

Black Angus are notorious for crawling fences. Cows can be just as bad as bulls. (donning flame suit :tiphat: )

Brangus are popular here.

 

[dun]

Too bad you specified black.
A good hot wire strung inside the barbed wire should work.

 

[I luv herfrds]

We normally keep our bulls in a stout pen with an eletrical wire running all around the inside. They learn to respect the fence right away.
Had a black bull that was turning into a fence wrecker. He was sent down the road and we went back to straight Herefords, but some of them will crawl the fence too.
Have a bull right now that the breeder was concerned about because he was so calm, he was worring that he would not breed. He's calm until you put him out with a herd of hot cows. ;-)
When we buy a bull we like to walk in the pen with them and see how they act. We like them calm too.