Reply To: Trouble with Yearling

[Vinnie]

Thank you all. Crabapple Farm, you make some good points. He doesn’t fear me, because he allows me to groom him all over. He never tries to kick and he lets me touch his face and scratch his neck. I wonder if he is feeling discomfort because of his growing horns. Does that happen? He is a year old now, but they are just now starting to bud out. I have tried punching his nose, and that did surprise him. He responds to “back” when I bring a bucket of feed, so he isn’t violent. Yet he is only about 800 lbs. When he grows to his full size, a head butt could be indeed dangerous (my grown bull was 2500 lbs, but he was really gentle). I will ask the vet about a nose ring.

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