Oh man, it was a war zone! We finally found a good weekend to try and take some of the cattle to the sale barn. Had the gentleman who sells us hay lend his bigger trailer cause we WERE going to take 6~ 1 BIG bull, 1 BIG cow and 4 oh 600 to 700 pounder's yearling bulls. He had them all locked up in the feed lot last night actually was able to get the other 5 separated the ones we are keeping so we get up early to load up and he needs me out there to help he says. shakes head... big mistake. The bulls are TERRIFIED of me and my Kubota!
anyway I finally direct him and trailer get it all lined up to our chute and we start running them up... get the cow into frontend of trailer easy, but that's when all h*e* double tooth picks breaks out! The big bull IS furious and goes nutz! Busts panels right and left get balled up? in the lane? and have hubby crushed between the big bull and the big metal part of chute crushing him! finally get him freed up (don't know if he is hurt or not he wont say) and back to the fight. At one point I'm using my Kubota to halt them from bending panels out and HE actually almost flipped me! Definitely moved me back~ BIG S%% BULL!
We finally give up and get one of the smaller bulls into trailer and figure 2 is better than none BUT THEN as he pulls trailer out of lot I'm blocking them from getting out into front yard and driveway they come right over and around me (rammed me!) and are running loose. Tearing stuff up! Took us another hour to maneuver them back into feedlot and out into pasture. And it will be at least 3 weeks before we can try this again. WE just have to find another human that can walk and help herd. The Kubota cant do it in such confining spaces. I'm so SORE! and there is so much damage out there~ poor hubby! This was definitely a HELL NO day.....