Bulls fight

Angus bulls on Hollin Farm near
Delaplane, Virginia, posture and fight for dominance in their group of males. The mature bulls weight over a ton.
Music is "Take Five" from "The Essential Dave Brubeck" available on iTunes and on CD.Video footage by my son Robert Davenport.

This video shows why bulls are hard to raise. They are so big and strong that when they fight, they destroy fences and buildings. We have had several bulls that broke their legs in these battles and had to be put down.

Usually a group of bulls will sort things out after a few days and don't fight much after that. But introduce a new bull, and there is trouble.

Steers (being castrated) do not exhibit this competitive behavior to the extent that bulls do. Steers are easier to manage. Hence feedlots have steers or heifers but hardly ever bulls. However, steers grow slower than bulls and hence a general agricultural practice in the USA is to give them growth hormones in a small implant in their ear. This makes the steers grow and put on weight at the same rate as bulls. However, they never become as muscular as these bulls are.
We don't give implants as part of our natural beef program.
http://hollinfarms.com/pages/beef.html
Angus bulls are generally not very aggressive toward people. Angus cattle are a British breed developed for beef. Their beef has more marbling (fat) than European or Indian/Africa breeds. They are "polled" (they are bred to have no horns) and this makes them less dangerous to people and to each other.
However, Angus cows can be dangerous when they have young calves and sometimes will chase you when they feel that their calf is threatened. I've been knocked down and Mimi was hit by a cow and flipped backwards over a barred wire fence.
I have put up a youtube doc "Tagging Calves, Dangerous Work".

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[hondawheeler]

they cut the horns off

[Hollinfarms]

These are Black Angus bulls. All Black Angus are "polled" -- bred to not have horns. They don't grow them and that is one reason why the breed is popular.

[Dhaku420]

that bull sounds more like a hog!!!!!

[bigredmatt13]

its a bro down!!!!!!

[jimjim506]

is that shit over that things arse, its the first one in the video

[ooJesusiscomingoo]

Lol worried bull in the background hyperventilating.

[pinkracoon10]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... meat

[maijib2009]

so sad for the cow, no horns

[Lester996]

i wish i lived in a farm so i could have lots of shrooms

[willow7233]

@ParthenopeSirenum Yes I grew up on a farm with cattle and other animals!! The bulls had to be confined to their own pastures, but not too far where they couldn't see or hear others. The bulls that did get together damaged themselves really bad from fighting!!!

[ParthenopeSirenum]

@willow7233 Did you grow up on a farm with cattle? I grew up with angus cattle, and the bulls do fine together in herds, which is what wild bovine as well as equines will generally do when the males are "bachelors": not in their own herd of females. It is more cruel to keep a herd animal alone and "fights" are posturing behavior to establish dominance. They don't generally result in injury. Cute vid. lol

[dirtbikebabie420]

actually i grew up on a farm too and all of our bulls acutally starngly got along and we would even put them in the herd while they breed not one singe fight

[willow7233]

I grew up on a farm, why the HELL would you put intact bulls together in the same pasture?? Duh