On 01-Feb-18 12:27 PM, Chris Green wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Most of the bulls I have encountered are not really bothered unless you
deliberately upset them.

It is cows that are the most likely to attack, although the vets I used
to know never trusted Charolais bulls.

I was always taught that it's bulls with dairy cows that are the ones
to be careful of.

Unless you are working on the farm, you shouldn't be in a field that has
a bull of a recognised dairy breed that is more than 10 months old in
it. They are banned from fields crossed by public paths.

The figures for the years 2000-2015 shows that 18 members of the public,
all on public footpaths, were killed by cattle. One death is alleged to
have involved a bull, but this was not proven in Court. Ten involved
cows with calves. All but one walker had a dog with them and, with the
exception of one man who had wandered away from a family group, they
were all lone walkers or were accompanied by only one other person.

OTOH, half of the 56 cattle related deaths of farm workers involved a bull.


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Colin Bignell