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Faunsdale, AL | One of my aunts raised a couple heifers that were blind. She kept them in the small pen out back of her house and they did fine. When they had had a couple calves each, they started having only bulls. In fact they, their first heifer calves and several other heifers she bought in sales etc ALL had bulls. Her “herd” had 17 or 18 bull calves in a row over several years! So, somewhere along the line she advertised in the local classified paper or something and sold a few of the calves for breeding instead of just taking them to the sale barn. She finally started having a more normal ratio of heifers but it was a LONG dry spell!
Couple years later a lady called her up and asked if she “wanted” the bull she had sold them back. Of course she said no, she wasn’t interested. Then the lady told her the bull had killed her husband recently.
Edit….my aunt didn’t raise the bulls on a bottle, they were ones that were nursing the blind cows so they were around people and tame, calm cows, but not made pets of when they were sold before they were old enough to breed.
I think the woman said it was totally unexpected that the bull went after her husband. Maybe she wasn’t really aware and there was signs things were getting dangerous but guess we won’t ever know.
Edited by ccjersey 8/31/2024 15:11
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Bull Killed My Uncles Brother in 1925
