chenocetah
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One of my farms is intersected through the middle by a major two lane highway, having a group of cows on each side of the road with a bull put in for each group during breeding season .. With the layout of this particular farm, I have my cowman rotate each herd on their side of the road at the same so that when a group on one side of the highway is adjacent to the road, the opposite group is in the back .. In other words, the two herds never see each other .. Well,........Somebody (I think I know who, but I better not say) rode their golf cart or ATV through one side of the farm and left EVERY gate open .. The bovines on that side of the road then proceeded to make their way through several open gates to the greener grazing next to the highway, and what does Bull #1 find but Bull #2 looking at him from across the road .. My guess is they were there all night across the road from one another bellowing and pawing before just after daylight one of them finally took a fence down.
Remember we on a major highway, right?
Whenever I started getting the ph calls, I was 15 miles away at on other farm .. I was being told on the ph that I had bulls fighting in the highway .. Yeah, right, but I sped as fast as I reasonably could towards the site .. When I was about half a mile from this place I encountered bumper to bumper backed up traffic .. I got over and run my truck down the shoulder of the road just knowing I was about to see a major accident with dead livestock, mangled vehicles, injured people and lawyers waiting with their grubby hands out ......
Well, that's not what I found .. These two about 2,000 lb bulls had tore down fences on both sides of the road, had electric wire and net wire with posts still attached scattered from ditch to ditch all across the road .. Traffic was backed up out of sight both ways, and these two bull were literally, in front of a good size audience, head to head on their knees fighting straddle of the yellow line in the middle of the road .. It was like it was some kind of tuffman contest and whoever got the other one back across the yellow line wins.
You ever tried to break up a real serious bull fight? No one standing there was even trying.
I got my fiberglass whip out of my truck and commenced to flailing and hollering at these unruly beasts, and after a minute they seperated, my guess of more recognizing my voice that the flogging I was administering.
I drug the fence out of the highway, the people and traffic dissipated, the bulls went back to their respective herds, and I quietly said a prayer that no one was hurt .. I called my cowman to bring a trailer to load one of the bulls and get him out of there and bring supplies to fix the fence.
Then I heard sirens coming.
Highway Patrol shows up and admits he had been summoned to the scene but had been given confusing directions and had gotten lost, he thought the cattle in the road incident involved a collision and was on this particular highway, but out the other side of town .. I informed him there was no accident and I had everything under control, and he went along on his merry way.
My cowman shows up, we load one bull, I leave him to fix the fence as I am late for a meeting at the State Farmers Market .. When I get a couple of miles out of town the opposite direction, I encounter an accident scene with flashing blue lights .. Turns out a very close friend of mine who is a seedstock producer had a #1 ET bull calf prospect killed in the road .. No human injuries .. But, get this......What is the odds of the guy who hit this calf, was the EXACT same guy that "claimed" to have damaged a vehicle in a collision with one of their cows EXACTLY to the day one year ago and made money off of an insurance claim?
Glad that guy wasn't driving out the other side of town!
Remember we on a major highway right
Remember we on a major highway, right?
Whenever I started getting the ph calls, I was 15 miles away at on other farm .. I was being told on the ph that I had bulls fighting in the highway .. Yeah, right, but I sped as fast as I reasonably could towards the site .. When I was about half a mile from this place I encountered bumper to bumper backed up traffic .. I got over and run my truck down the shoulder of the road just knowing I was about to see a major accident with dead livestock, mangled vehicles, injured people and lawyers waiting with their grubby hands out ......
Well, that's not what I found .. These two about 2,000 lb bulls had tore down fences on both sides of the road, had electric wire and net wire with posts still attached scattered from ditch to ditch all across the road .. Traffic was backed up out of sight both ways, and these two bull were literally, in front of a good size audience, head to head on their knees fighting straddle of the yellow line in the middle of the road .. It was like it was some kind of tuffman contest and whoever got the other one back across the yellow line wins.
You ever tried to break up a real serious bull fight? No one standing there was even trying.
I got my fiberglass whip out of my truck and commenced to flailing and hollering at these unruly beasts, and after a minute they seperated, my guess of more recognizing my voice that the flogging I was administering.
I drug the fence out of the highway, the people and traffic dissipated, the bulls went back to their respective herds, and I quietly said a prayer that no one was hurt .. I called my cowman to bring a trailer to load one of the bulls and get him out of there and bring supplies to fix the fence.
Then I heard sirens coming.
Highway Patrol shows up and admits he had been summoned to the scene but had been given confusing directions and had gotten lost, he thought the cattle in the road incident involved a collision and was on this particular highway, but out the other side of town .. I informed him there was no accident and I had everything under control, and he went along on his merry way.
My cowman shows up, we load one bull, I leave him to fix the fence as I am late for a meeting at the State Farmers Market .. When I get a couple of miles out of town the opposite direction, I encounter an accident scene with flashing blue lights .. Turns out a very close friend of mine who is a seedstock producer had a #1 ET bull calf prospect killed in the road .. No human injuries .. But, get this......What is the odds of the guy who hit this calf, was the EXACT same guy that "claimed" to have damaged a vehicle in a collision with one of their cows EXACTLY to the day one year ago and made money off of an insurance claim?
Glad that guy wasn't driving out the other side of town!
Remember we on a major highway right
