- Feeding the Bulls -

Every morning after breakfast (in the summer) my younger brother John and I load nine 5-gallon buckets of cake in the pickup and go out to feed the bulls. Not cake that we eat, but compressed grain millings all pressed into small cylinder shape pieces about an inch in diameter. They love it! Once they get used to us feeding them cake on the ground, then after a while some brave bulls will come up to the back of the pick-up, with the end-gate down, and they eat it out of our hands!

I just hold onto the end of a piece of cake, and the bulls will stick out their tongue as far as they can and curl it around the piece of cake bringing it into their mouths. Their tongues look like a monkey's tail that is holding onto a branch! :o) There are about 12 bulls that we have got to eat out of our hands this summer, the rest are chickens and they won't come up! :oP It only takes about a week or two to get them gentle enough to come up and eat out of our hands. At least that's only how long it takes our bulls. Some of the bulls are so gentle that you have to push them away because they start licking our knees or our shoulders! It's gross to have bull slobber on you. YUCK! :-P

The bulls you see on the top of this page are last year's 2 year old bulls that we sold. Not the same ones I am talking about. We sell 2 year old bulls every year in late November, or early December. I just have those pictures up to show you how big the bulls that we feed are.

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The picture below is of my favorite herd bull and some pics of us feeding the bulls cake.

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