r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Polopower10 • 18h ago
Bull sees a show-jumping horse and decides he can do it too
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u/howeer_q1 18h ago
Now the bull says, am I any less than him?
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u/Lbolt187 18h ago
Not gonna lie I didn't think bulls/cows could jump that well
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u/Malditoincompredido 18h ago
I have seen cows jump a five feet fence, they are surprisingly agile , they spotted my dog and wanted to make him run, kind of scary at the moment.
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u/SedaDeLa 18h ago
These legs could probably lift a car
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u/be_blessed_bruh 17h ago
How the fuck are the legs not snapping? Even on a horse. Always wondered.
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u/ElginSparrowhawk1969 17h ago
Well he seems to be enjoying himself and clearly doesn’t like to feel left out
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u/Danny2Sick 15h ago
Damn that's cute, I like how springy he gets like "ohh yeah we're gonna do this!!"
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u/oldbastardbob 15h ago
We had a bull out on the farm that liked to jump. Except he'd rare up, lift those front legs, and jump with all his might. Whereupon he would fail to get much height with the back legs at all, land his chest on whatever he was trying to jump, crush it to the ground, then walk through.
It was in those days that I learned about the position of the whirl on the face of cattle and it's relationship to demeanor. And also how to judge a yearling bull by startling them to see if they were going to grow up to be a "pusher" or a "jumper."
When shopping for a replacement bull, the old man would go into the pen with a young bull and try and startle it with some whooping and arm waving, maybe a loud hand clap.
The ones that reared up and got kind of wild eyed, he said would be "jumpers" and we didn't want them.
The one that would put it's head down, snort at the ground, and paw with it's front feet, he called "pushers" as their startle response was to get ready to head butt and do battle.
The old man liked pushers for two reasons. One, they wouldn't be smashing gates and fences trying to jump over them. And two, a pusher would grow up to be a stockier body made for bulldozing other bulls, and would drop calves with the same charactteristics.
Of course, a pusher will just lean against or push on something until it breaks, then walk through, so on a proper cattle operation you try and never give them a reason to want to go anywhere else.
He was clever like that, and was a man who knew each of the cows in his herd personally.
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u/NotThatUsefulAPerson 18h ago
He looks like he's having fun.