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<blockquote data-quote="darcelina4" data-source="post: 1566498" data-attributes="member: 27059"><p>I do agree that jersey bulls are probably more likely to be dangerous do to the way they are raised (bottle fed) and the high strung playful nature of jerseys. Every bull and every cow can be dangerous and could kill you. However, most animals do threaten before they attack. I think many people just don't recognize the threats. I've raised horses for 50 years and trained racehorses for about 25. I cannot tell you the number of times a horse will be practically begging someone to get out of their space by pinning ears, shaking tail, stepping around, lifting legs, ECT and a person will be standing there oblivious to these warnings. Then when they get kicked or bitten they say it came out of nowhere. Bulls threaten in less obvious ways. They speak cow. You need to learn to speak or stay out if the pasture. My current young bull is a year old now. Very laid back. He was bottle fed a few weeks but then raised in the pasture for 7 months on a cow. He has been halter broke so we can work him. He isn't too scared of me but enough that he is very respectful. He is currently in with our show steer until June when I put him with the cows. The show steer is taken out every day. The bull isn't. A few months ago we debated about which one to castrate and which to keep as the bull. The bull looked better and had a better growth rate so he stayed a bull and the other became the show steer. Now I can see we made a good choice as the steer is really a bit if an asshat now that he is on a lot of feed. The bull is still very quiet. Right now you are way more likely to get run over by the steer. He would have become dangerous as a bull very quickly. The other day my daughter went to lead the steer out of the pen and the bull bashed the steer in the butt. My daughter kicked the bull in the side so hard it almost knocked him to the ground. When she put the steer back the bull backed away from her when she came in the pen. He knows she is the boss cow. We hope to keep the bull a few years. The day he starts showing any aggression to people he will move to the freezer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darcelina4, post: 1566498, member: 27059"] I do agree that jersey bulls are probably more likely to be dangerous do to the way they are raised (bottle fed) and the high strung playful nature of jerseys. Every bull and every cow can be dangerous and could kill you. However, most animals do threaten before they attack. I think many people just don't recognize the threats. I've raised horses for 50 years and trained racehorses for about 25. I cannot tell you the number of times a horse will be practically begging someone to get out of their space by pinning ears, shaking tail, stepping around, lifting legs, ECT and a person will be standing there oblivious to these warnings. Then when they get kicked or bitten they say it came out of nowhere. Bulls threaten in less obvious ways. They speak cow. You need to learn to speak or stay out if the pasture. My current young bull is a year old now. Very laid back. He was bottle fed a few weeks but then raised in the pasture for 7 months on a cow. He has been halter broke so we can work him. He isn't too scared of me but enough that he is very respectful. He is currently in with our show steer until June when I put him with the cows. The show steer is taken out every day. The bull isn't. A few months ago we debated about which one to castrate and which to keep as the bull. The bull looked better and had a better growth rate so he stayed a bull and the other became the show steer. Now I can see we made a good choice as the steer is really a bit if an asshat now that he is on a lot of feed. The bull is still very quiet. Right now you are way more likely to get run over by the steer. He would have become dangerous as a bull very quickly. The other day my daughter went to lead the steer out of the pen and the bull bashed the steer in the butt. My daughter kicked the bull in the side so hard it almost knocked him to the ground. When she put the steer back the bull backed away from her when she came in the pen. He knows she is the boss cow. We hope to keep the bull a few years. The day he starts showing any aggression to people he will move to the freezer. [/QUOTE]
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