I couldn't quite believe it. Shortly after writing the paragraph below
I poured a cup of coffee and sat down to read the morning paper. What
should I spy but the small headline "Bull kills farmer, police report".
The story is of an 80 year old farmer from Andes, New York who was
killed by his 2 year old Jersey bull as he was passing through the cow
pen. His 56 year old son was injured and hospitalized after he was
attacked by the bull while trying to aid his father. As if that isn't
coincidence enough the location (Andes, NY) is the ancestral home of the
veterinarian mentioned below. His father owned a farm there which the
family maintained until very recently. Andes is a small town and the
farmer that was killed had served on the town board for the past 20
years. The vet undoubtedly knows him and I intend to pass on the
information.
Watch out for those bulls,
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I have a good friend who's a vet. For the first couple of years out of
> school he practiced large animal medicine on the farms in upstate New
> York but eventually bought a small animal hospital being sold by a
> retiring vet. When I asked him why he said that small animals were more
> challenging, that there was "more medicine involved". In addition, he
> commented that he had grown weary of calls to treat sick bulls. He said
> most farmers were afraid of their bulls and mistreated them badly;
> pulling them around harshly by the nose ring or beating them with sticks
> to get them to move. Then, when the bulls got sick, they expected the
> good doc to climb into the pen with them.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> I've know a few feral scrub bulls I'd like you to meet - and no, the
>> Crocodile Dundee trick doesn't work with them. (Doesn't work with
>> anything come to that).
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 17/05/2007, at 12:25 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
>>
>>> I grew up on a 250-head cattle farm. Never once had a problem with a
>>> bull. They're more snort and bluff than they are likely to attack
>>> and gore. We had a couple I could go up to and pet, especially old
>>> Monroe, whose most dangerous trait was that he would sometime try to
>>> lean on me, and he weighed over 1000 pounds.
>>
>>
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