| ccjersey - 8/31/2024 11:11
It used to be very common.
Every dairy had a bull or two. There were lots of dairy farms. Most/many cows and bulls had horns. The ranches and beef cattle operations more often than not had horses but they were pretty much superfluous as far as handling cattle on a small dairy farm.
Artificial insemination and frozen semen distribution made the dairy business a lot safer!
There’s an old expression that describes a soldier having “seen the elephant” meaning they had been in combat. I’ve “seen the bull” or really the body language of the bull when you know your position is untenable. My older brother made a mis-step when he was in that situation and had his leg badly bruised and had infection and abscesses with a long recovery. In my case I was able to leap out of the pen but in my haste I came down across a trough on the other side. Only broke a rib or two! I think I came out far better than he did.
Great grandfather was killed by being kicked by a horse in 1918. I’m sure he was very experienced and used to handling horses, but still got kicked in the head I think. Animals are always a little more unpredictable than machinery. Most accidents we have today can be predicted. Dealing with animals is a little harder to be completely safe.
I've been around the macho, hardheaded type men who appear to be much like the man shown on a video here on NAT where the elephant had enough of the poor treatment. One guy was missing front teeth and had been care flighted after he was seriously injured by cattle. You would think he had learned something but apparently not. He and I did not get along at all. He was always the type calling others pu_____ when you wouldn't do the same stupid risky stuff he did.
We were sorting some aggressive bulls and heifers in a small pen on foot. Guy would still do his same old trash talking to everyone and anyone. I had to leave to feed horses before the morning got any later. Came back and that same trash talker was bleeding and banged up pretty bad. He was moaning and bent over. The other guys had to drag him out from the same pen after a mean heifer tried to mash him into the side of a barn. I later had to deal with that same heifer at another location she had been trailered to. We got rid of her.
Edited by Mr Green Jeans 8/31/2024 11:36
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Bull Killed My Uncles Brother in 1925
