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Chillin' with the herd
I raise horses & chickens so I have no idea how to get a 2,000 pound bull in a trailer so he can go to auction.
He belongs to my neighbor who just got transferred to California by his employer. The neighbor has deligated people to care for his place while he is gone. One guy has been deligated to get the man's cows to marker while it is my job to care for the pasturage while he is gone. The guy got the cows loaded and to market, but for two Saturdays in a row, he has been trying to get the bull loaded.
The sooner that bull goes the sooner my horses get the pasture which I really, really, really need! (We've had a pretty severe drought here in Texas and my pasture is gone.)
I watched and helped to the degree I was able, yesterday.
I see three problems:
1) the bull is 2,000 pounds and not afraid of anything.
2) the bull is 2,000 pounds and doesn't want to get in the trailer.
3) the bull is 2,000 pounds and is very upset that his girls are gone.
oh yeah,
4) the bull is 2,000 pounds and smarter than the humans left in charge of getting him to market.
It took 4 hours just to get him in the stock area, another hour to get him into the shoot - which he immediately turned around in and left no solution for getting him the right direction for loading into the trailer. After another hour, he decided he didn't want to be there and bent, snapped, and broke all the rails, the gate on the shoot, and the adjoining panels before lifting the whole thing up and going out underneath the whole thing.
so, then
5) the bull is 2,000 pounds and the neighbor didn't build his shoot & stock area sturdy enough for an animal that large.
Oh, and another thing, the guy's wife got in the pen with the bull - against everyone's advice & warning. So this bull penned her against the fence and broke several ribs before we got her out. Thank God he didn't have horns!
So now, the bull is very, very upset and knows he can hurt people. NICE!
So back to my question: How do you get a 2,000 pound bull in the trailer so we can get him to market?
I'm desperate to get that bull out of that pasture before he starts breaking fence lines to get to other cows nearby.
ANOTHER QUESTION: If I do manage to get him loaded, what do I do with him? Are there only certain days you can haul cows to auction/market or can you do it any day of the week?
He belongs to my neighbor who just got transferred to California by his employer. The neighbor has deligated people to care for his place while he is gone. One guy has been deligated to get the man's cows to marker while it is my job to care for the pasturage while he is gone. The guy got the cows loaded and to market, but for two Saturdays in a row, he has been trying to get the bull loaded.
The sooner that bull goes the sooner my horses get the pasture which I really, really, really need! (We've had a pretty severe drought here in Texas and my pasture is gone.)
I watched and helped to the degree I was able, yesterday.
I see three problems:
1) the bull is 2,000 pounds and not afraid of anything.
2) the bull is 2,000 pounds and doesn't want to get in the trailer.
3) the bull is 2,000 pounds and is very upset that his girls are gone.
oh yeah,
4) the bull is 2,000 pounds and smarter than the humans left in charge of getting him to market.
It took 4 hours just to get him in the stock area, another hour to get him into the shoot - which he immediately turned around in and left no solution for getting him the right direction for loading into the trailer. After another hour, he decided he didn't want to be there and bent, snapped, and broke all the rails, the gate on the shoot, and the adjoining panels before lifting the whole thing up and going out underneath the whole thing.
so, then
5) the bull is 2,000 pounds and the neighbor didn't build his shoot & stock area sturdy enough for an animal that large.
Oh, and another thing, the guy's wife got in the pen with the bull - against everyone's advice & warning. So this bull penned her against the fence and broke several ribs before we got her out. Thank God he didn't have horns!
So now, the bull is very, very upset and knows he can hurt people. NICE!
So back to my question: How do you get a 2,000 pound bull in the trailer so we can get him to market?
I'm desperate to get that bull out of that pasture before he starts breaking fence lines to get to other cows nearby.
ANOTHER QUESTION: If I do manage to get him loaded, what do I do with him? Are there only certain days you can haul cows to auction/market or can you do it any day of the week?