Muriel Bonsall of Bonsall Bucking Bulls writes:
"We need to electric fence one side of the Mulberry Creek pasture. It has 6 yearling bulls in it and they are now next to another neighbor’s pasture with sweet smelling cows and heifers plus bulls. Too many hormones in the air for those young boys. It becomes a nose curling, blinding, no-holds-barred bellowing call of the wild! We must generate some juice to stop the hint of romance in the air floating over the adjacent fence.
I vividly remember about 2 yrs. ago riding our horses and trying to sort off one of our young bulls that “escaped” to greener pastures with cows and heifers. This project took almost all afternoon as he was so stubborn! We ended up having to corral the entire herd into a large pen and trap them. Even in the trapped pen he still did not want to be sorted off the females. Finally we got him loaded into our stock trailer. Our next task was to place electric fence along topline in our pasture before letting him back into it. It all turned into a lot of work for his moment of passion.
We called the neighbor and told them a bucking bull was in their pasture and now removed. The next spring a black and white heifer stuck out like a sore thumb in their ALL BLACK ANGUS herd. They were not happy."
