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11/22/11, 02:28 AM
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Plight of a Bull
In this photo provided by the Triple L Ranch, Skywalker, a rodeo bull, is shown with a giant tire that was stuck to his head for about 20 hours in Kula, Hawaii. The bull was unable to eat or drink with his head lodged in a truck tire dumped on the property. Ranch owner Paige De Ponte doesn’t know how the tire ended up on Skywalker’s head but she’s hoping his plight raises awareness about using the rural Kenaio area as a dumping ground.
http://pakagri.blogspot.com/2011/11/...l-picture.html
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11/22/11, 05:45 AM
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This is probably a timely reminder to all farmers to think about what is lieing around on their farms that look innocuous but are in fact highly dangerous.
Running with my milking herd is a 3 year old steer that should have been going to the works. I doubt that will happen and when he comes right, he'll be sold as a freezer beast to a local. I found him with wire wrapped around his lower leg. He was grazing with 9 others on a property than had been let to go before we bought it and I doubt that we will ever get the old wire and fencing completely cleaned up. He required vet assistance to knock him out and remove the wire which was deeply embedded in both the front and back tendons. Two weeks later he is using the leg properly although the flesh at the back has gone proud but it isn't superating, and he is starting to put on condition.
So please, pick up all "rubbish", even if it doesn't appear to be rubbish. As Paki's photo demonstrates, stock can get themselves into some sticky situations.
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Ronnie
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11/22/11, 06:25 AM
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When I was a kid, we had a young shorthorn bull. We had an old riding cultivater with steel spoked wheels sitting against a barbwire fence. We came home in our Model A Ford to find the bull with his head through the top two barbs, and through the spokes in the wheel. No amount of twisting or pulling would get his head out from between the spokes. Stepdad finaly took a cold chisel and cut one of the spokes off on one end.
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11/22/11, 09:07 AM
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Location: VA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronney
This is probably a timely reminder to all farmers to think about what is lieing around on their farms that look innocuous but are in fact highly dangerous.
So please, pick up all "rubbish", even if it doesn't appear to be rubbish. As Paki's photo demonstrates, stock can get themselves into some sticky situations.
Cheers,
Ronnie
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Ditto what Ronnie says. This includes baling twine, glass, balloons, metal, pop tops, golf balls, anything that doesn't grows there naturally (I've found all of the above in my pastures plus some things I can't mention here!).
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11/22/11, 11:01 AM
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my friend's neighbor had a yearling American Bison "pet" that he loved dearly and doted on every day. When he reached yearling size, he hung a tire from a tree for him to spar with. Somehow, he got the rope around his neck and the weight of the tire strangled him. No tire swings in the bull pen, check.
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11/25/11, 06:17 AM
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Location: Land of the Long White Cloud
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Saw a photo once of a cow who had a ladder hanging around her neck. Easily removed and very funny.
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11/25/11, 10:29 AM
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Norman my pet steer managed to get inside of an empty hay ring and could not get out, so he walked about most fo the day pushing it in front of him, course he coulnd't eat or get to the water trough, but other than that he seem unconcerned when my daughter noticed and freed him
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11/25/11, 06:48 PM
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I am so thankful that my pasture is 'clean'. When we bought the place it had been a pasture and before that farmland. About 20 years ago it was fenced, but that was it. Old owners were VERY clean. We walked it and walked it and couldn't find even a tin can or a beer bottle. Just nothing. Now we have a little 'camp' the animals can walk around, but its all safe stuff. A burn barrel, a camper, a pile of posts, a picnic table. Not much else.
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11/25/11, 06:50 PM
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No harm to the cows, but my BIL left the tractor out in the field and the cattle removed all the spark plug wires.
They'll get into everything.
A lot of people use those big tires for feeders.
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11/27/11, 11:51 AM
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If there is a way for a cow to get into trouble, she'll usually find it. 
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11/28/11, 11:14 PM
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Our most recent previous bull ringed himself with the empty hayring. Luckily, we saw it happening so he wasn't trapped in there for too long. He was just standing there with this weird look on his face like "w.t.f.?" Didn't get a chance to work himself up and tear up the ring.
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