lil mutt Loc: North Texas

What a great pair on top. That bull is super, straight back, heavy neck and he's long. In the last few years Dad had the farm, we change from White Face to Santa Gertrudis. But Dad passed in '97. My brother and I tried to keep the farm going, but, with our work, we sold it in '99 and moved Mom into a smaller house a couple of miles between us. She lived until 2013. I noticed the five strand wire fence behind the pair, it looks tight enough to play Yankee Doodle on. Reminds me of the time Dad and I were building a cross fence on the farm. It was only about a 150 yards long and we had set cedar post and had strung the first wire. We were stretching the second strand. I was on a 8n Ford tractor, had the wire to the end and was suppose to pull it tight as Dad stapled the wire. I should have set the brake, but, no, I was holding tension with the clutch. My foot slipped off the, the tractor jumped forward and the wire broke. Made a hell of a noise as it was recoiling back toward Dad. Of course he heard it coming and stood straight up and froze. It wrapped him pretty good. It took about ten minutes to cut out with the fence pliers. We got in his 50' Chevy pickup and drove to the house. Mom called old Doctor Wiss and I drove Dad to the office and met the doctor. By the time we got there, it had been a half hour and Dad was bloody from the waist down. He went in and he told me to clean up the pickup where he was sitting. I took newspaper and wiped it as clean as I could then went in. Doc Wiss had Dad stripped down laying on a table. He must have had at least 40 deep scratches from his waist down. Luckily there was only a couple of places he need stitches. His jeans were ripped and his drawers were bloody, so the doctor gave him a white gown to wear home. But, what really made him mad was that we lost a 100 yard of wire. This really hurt me because at twelve he wouldn't let me drive the tractor for a while.

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

Wow, that's a story that I have experienced also as a kid there was a guy helping my dad pull wire and it broke and came back on him rapping around him like it did your dad, took my dad awhile to cut it from around the guy I was very young and don't remember if he went to the doctor or not🥴 but in 1988 I was building some fence and a flake ot the galvanized staple few off and went in my right eye and I've lost 80% of it,,, I was wearing safety glasses up till about five minutes before it happens🥴🥴 working on a farm can be dangerous just got to be careful...(go on Google and look up python killed in Zolfo springs Florida) and it should pull up the one that was killed about 4 miles from me,,,,
I always put up a six strand on the outside fence and a five strand for a cross French... I think I'll go back with the Charlotte bull next..

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

BeachDrummer Loc: Eastern NC

I have a buddy who has registered Red Angus. He bought a Charolais bull to produce some crossbred cattle for his feedlot and they have worked out well for him. I call them his “pink cattle “. Coyotes and buzzards are a problem here in NC as well.

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

They seems to be a good cross👍

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

Gordon, there more to come that one had over 100 eggs🥴
I keep a eye out for any sign of them .....

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

That would State the poop out of me if I saw it.