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Ned Makim
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« Reply #40 on: January 06, 2010, 01:13:02 am » |
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The true scrub cattle (wild bred and unhandled for 150 years) look like red English Shorthorn gone bad. But there are heaps of bos indicus type cattle among them too. The brahman type carry the northern cattle industry. They and crosses from them form the majority of the cattle herd in the tropical or genuine savannah type country of Oz. Different cattle for different climatic conditions...
Those scrub bulls though, whatever they look like they are all the same. They are capable of charging you on sight and will definitely go on with it. There is no bluff whatsoever in these things. They are unbelievably athletic too and even once unloaded into the yards for later collection will still try to get a horn tip onto you through the rails if they see half a chance. I was hugely impressed by the mad daddy didn't marry mommys. I saw four kill themselves fighting the 4wds (wouldn't run, just hooked in until they brained themselves. And I saw a huge black one kill itself in the yards rather than be pushed. Smashed and smashed into steel yards until he checked out.
If i can get the video organised (I'll send that email tonight...my time) I'll tell you a bit about the Aboriginal boys who worked these bulls. Not big men but gamer than me...
Cheers.
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