My Bull got out too! HOW??

[ufo_chris]

I posted on the other Bulls got out thread.
Here's the thing.
This Bull should be a 'virgin' bull,I have his mom and her older daughter,both were bred by my other bull and have been seperated from him since the calfes were born 6 month ago.
They are both in 6 wire high tensile pastures ,with a 30 foot wide ally in the middle.
This ally is open on both ends (not any more!) and that is where he was when I got up this morning!
We are kinda in the boonies but still a few houses and neighbors and our property is really narrow with neighbors so that was my first worry.
Well he stays eying the girls cause his mama was in heat but didn't make it in their pasture.
I got the ends fenced off and coaxed him back in his pasture.
Now,I am not sure how he got out!
Nothing was down or broke,no tree,nothing.
The wires were kinda loose though,could he have walked through them?
I have a strong fencer (100 mile,on maybe 8 acres) have felt the shock myself and I swear you think you're heart's gonna stop.
But there are a lot of weeds right now so it might be a little less but usually still strong.
Or could he have jumped it???
It's at least 5' to 5 1/2 ft, and also looked for a 'landing spot' and nothing.
I tightened all the wires ,checked the juice ,left the ends fenced,but I will be on watch all night ,just in case he got out somewhere else and walked around (checked for signs,nothing)
What do you guys think?
How far to keep the girls where he won't be interested?
Thanks,Chris

[RedDirt Cowgirl]

I'd say it's hard to tell what a bull's interested in when it wants to go someplace - they just go. I have riders pass through pretty regularly "looking for my d...ed bull", and the fences couldn't be any tighter. They have terrific sniffers, keeping him upwind of other cattle of all kinds might help. Just had a neighbor's bull pass through 3 fence lines well over a mile, & bust into a corral just to do another bull to death. Some can be feed-lot lumps of inert flesh, others can do unbelievable things.

[sweetwaterbob]

We try to keep at least one pasture (sometimes two) between the bulls and the cows. Jack's really good on fence, but if we put him in an adjacent pasture we'd only have ourselves to blame if he got in with them when we didn't want him to.

[ufo_chris]

Bob thanks,but your patures in Col. are probably a bit bigger then mine (8 acres)
I got up every hr. last night to check on him and he stayed put ,thank God.
Deceided to send him off to the auction ,but that't another week ,normally Mo. but that is Labor day.....I want him gone now,LOL!
Time to put the Girls with the breeding bull(who stayed put) by then anyways!
Thanks,Chris