I used to leave the bull calves entire because they seemed to grow quicker and the price for bull meat was higher.
I noticed that one particular bull was becoming a bit angry, and I found out later that some young lads had fired slug gun pellets at it.
The first time the bull attacked me was when I was opening the gate to drive my ute into the paddock to spray gorse. The bull came running up and as I sat in the truck to drive into the paddock, he rattled the radiator grill with his horns and pushed. This did not phase me too much and I began spraying the gorse.
Above the noise of the pump. I heard a bellow and the thunder of hooves causing me to turn to see the bull a few metres away 'on the charge'! My only option was to turn the hose onto the bull - full into his face. This caused him to stop to reassess the situation giving me the time to sprint the thirty metres to the electric fence and bounded over it - actually I did bounder over it.
The pump pumped on and when the bull was a good distance away I retrieved the ute and its load.
Of course I could not put up with a looney bull on the place - you never know who would walk through the property!
But I was a bit afraid of him so yarding and loading him onto the stock truck was, I thought, a little dangerous.
I made a run with electric fence each side, to drive him into the yard and I conscripted Colin with his rifle and beady eye to be ready to shoot the animal if he made a step towards me - just one step!
The electric fence must have made the bull nervous (and he was with other cattle) because he gave me no trouble at all and he was trucked away to the freezing works.
I was happy that he left the property.
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