Animals most likely to kill you this summer

[RobertBrown]

Speaking as an ex farmer , there is no excuse for having an animal with a "bad" temperament. If you can't go in the paddock or yard then it is hamburger as far as I am concerned. I farmed for 25 years , and would get in with 1000 kg bulls and shift or work them on foot.My herd(beef) had been culled on temperament for 36 years when I stopped farming.
Today my farm is leased out and the leasee has some dairy breeding bulls on the place and some of them would attack you if you went into the paddock with them. This guys priorities(milk, milk, milk) are skewed to me.
You need to be safe with the animals you work with.

As a non-farmer....I keep a fence between myself and all farm animals that weigh more than I do..:ashamed:

Good link....I see that cows are 20 times more dangerous than sharks or bears.

 

[jimmyj]

Quite a perspective check when you see the vehicle death rates.

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie, I think I've posted this before, but when I was a kid, we always had a flock of hens for the eggs and at least one big rooster, usually a White Leghorn. And when I was about 12 or so, we had one that would attack me every time I went out and he had a good set of spurs. Dad thought it was funny, since it wasn't him being attacked, but he told me that you know when he jumps at you, he brings those feet up to get his spurs forward so just grab him by both feet and dip him in the cow's water trough. So the next day I did that, dipped him in the water and threw him and he hit the ground running. But the next day here he came again. So that time when I dipped him in the water, I held him under and watched the bubbles for awhile. And when I did finally take him out of the water and threw him as far as I could, he just landed in a heap and laid there. Sure scared me because I knew Dad would be furious if I'd killed his rooster. But after a few seconds that old rooster started flopping around like a chicken with it's head cut off, then he finally got on his feet and staggered off. So he fully recovered, but from that time on, he gave me a wide berth and was quick to get out of the way when he saw me coming.

Wish I new of this when it started to happen. We have three roosters running around out on their own and 11 layers in the coop. The roosters are always trying to figure out how to get back into the coop, but the also wonder around the yard hunting grasshoppers and other bugs. I like them out eating bugs, but sneaking up and attacking our legs has gotten old. All three are different looking, and they are all beautiful birds. The big red one was the worse, and one day while walking by my truck, it hit me hard enough to make me lose it. I kicked him so hard that he bounced off the side of my truck and went under it all twisted up. He just laid there not moving. I was sure I had killed him and went to get the hoe or something to pull him out from under there and get rid of his body. But he started twitching and eventually worked his way out from under there. He was limping real dad and I figured he was going to die from internal injuries or just broken bones. But he came through and seems perfectly happy. Now when I get within ten feet of him, he takes off running away as fast as he can!!!! I'm the only one he is afraid of, and he knows who I am because he doesn't run from anybody else. He also doesn't attack anybody else, so all in all, it worked out perfectly.

The snakes are really bad this year. I just shot a copper head from my tractor while bush hogging. I'm carrying a 357 with 38 birdshot that is deadly on them!!!

Wasps and bees don't seem as bad this year. It might be the all the rain we had, I'm not sure what it is.

Eddie

 

[davrow]

I say we should ban the car as they kill so many people.

I suggest instead of sending troops to do war in enemy territory we just give everybody there a free car. Pretty soon, none of them left. (no seat belts or air bags, of course, but free handheld cell phones...)

 

[orezok]

The animal which is most likely to kill you is another human!

 

[Jstpssng]

How would you like to be sharing your house with this
Beekeepers to remove a million bees from NY home | New York Post
many bees... when you're allergic to bee stings?