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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1499151" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>Our main criteria as been you have to feel safe around a bull enough that you don't have to worry about turning your back on him. Granted we're a little spoiled with the dispositions of Herefords but we bought a bull once that we shipped off after just 3 years because we didn't like his temperament plus he turned out to have heavier birth weights than we cared for so those 2 combined were enough to not hesitate sending him off. He wasn't mean but I sure wouldn't take my eye off him because he would start to show off and try to butt you with his head if you weren't careful. Sometimes you can deal with a bull that maybe does something annoying like rub on things and flip over hay rings or bunks when he bored as long as he's not aggressive towards humans to make it unsafe to be around him. We had 1 bull may years back that as soon as they ate down a round bale he'd flip the hay ring and push or roll it all over the lot till you put a new bale out. Would try to put the heaviest hay ring we had in the lot he was in. A local commercial guy bought him off us when we were done using him and he told us he was doing the same thing over the winter in his bull lot but he didn't mind it because otherwise he was the most mild mannered bull he owned and the only one that stayed in the lot when the other bulls broke out one day!</p><p></p><p>We put a nose ring in every bull we use on the farm just so if we ever have to get him cornered up or in a chute for something we have a way to get some control over him if he won't cooperate. Everyone probably has a certain level of tolerance with a bull's behavior and as long as he's siring good calves and his behavior is enough to tolerate then there isn't a problem though his disposition could be passed down to the cattle he sires too is something to keep in mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1499151, member: 20580"] Our main criteria as been you have to feel safe around a bull enough that you don't have to worry about turning your back on him. Granted we're a little spoiled with the dispositions of Herefords but we bought a bull once that we shipped off after just 3 years because we didn't like his temperament plus he turned out to have heavier birth weights than we cared for so those 2 combined were enough to not hesitate sending him off. He wasn't mean but I sure wouldn't take my eye off him because he would start to show off and try to butt you with his head if you weren't careful. Sometimes you can deal with a bull that maybe does something annoying like rub on things and flip over hay rings or bunks when he bored as long as he's not aggressive towards humans to make it unsafe to be around him. We had 1 bull may years back that as soon as they ate down a round bale he'd flip the hay ring and push or roll it all over the lot till you put a new bale out. Would try to put the heaviest hay ring we had in the lot he was in. A local commercial guy bought him off us when we were done using him and he told us he was doing the same thing over the winter in his bull lot but he didn't mind it because otherwise he was the most mild mannered bull he owned and the only one that stayed in the lot when the other bulls broke out one day! We put a nose ring in every bull we use on the farm just so if we ever have to get him cornered up or in a chute for something we have a way to get some control over him if he won't cooperate. Everyone probably has a certain level of tolerance with a bull's behavior and as long as he's siring good calves and his behavior is enough to tolerate then there isn't a problem though his disposition could be passed down to the cattle he sires too is something to keep in mind. [/QUOTE]
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