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Nashville, Tenn. – On Friday night on PBR stampede days, more than 50 bulls were at the scene at the Bridgestone Arena. If that seems many animals, that is because it is, but for a good reason. No bull is mounted more than once per night, which means that each animal works for a maximum of eight seconds in a given day. That is a good job if you can get it.
It is an incredible operation to load them inside and outside. And although runners can obtain most of the attention center, these bulls are also athletes.
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Professional Bull Riders (PBR) 2025 unleashed the Beast Bull Bull mounting event at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, United States on February 1, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu through Getty Images)
“These bulls have to be physically fit to win so much intensity,” said Dr. Douglas G. Corey, president of the Animal Welfare Committee of the Association of Professional Rodeo Cowboys. “These bulls are standing on a ramp to immediately shoot their hind legs and turn, twist and run out, and keep it until the rider is left behind. That, for me, is a real athletics.”
And like any athlete, proper training is crucial.
Lucas Manning, a contractor of actions of Myakka City, Florida, knows exactly what is needed to take a bull to the great stage.
“Much of the training is done in calves with the box doll, you know, and then learn a routine with that,” Manning told Outkick on Friday. “And then, when we start putting pilots, he will take them [not] Very long to adjust. And then the best come here, and we continue to rolling with them. “
The diet is also important, but varies from one ranch to another.
“Mine is nothing too crazy. Simply the food very well, I try to get them everything they want to eat. And they are also in grass, where I am,” said Manning. “Some people make it a bit different. Some people are in rocks, so they feed them hay and grain. But mine, get a lot of grass and grains. So I try to give them everything they can, where they become great and robust, and it works well for me.”
While Manning takes special care to all his bulls, he has had more than a few favorites over the years. Buffalo Heifer, he said, was quite special. He also loved to kick Chicken and Semillas from Satan.
As for how these names occur to you?
“Oh, shoot, I don’t know. We’re just making a rain of ideas,” said Manning. “You listen to great things, you see a movie or a song, you listen to something great, and simply, I write it in my notes, and when I find a bull that adjusts, then I use it.”
PBR cattle athletes receive first -class treatment
A professional bull assembles a bull in the PBR Rodeo in Madison Square Garden on January 5, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty images)
Dr. Corey expressed it without surroundings: “A bull of 1,200 to 2,000 pounds that can break 4 feet in the air, go back and make six or eight rotations in a period of 8 seconds is an athlete.”
And as is the case of elite athletes, the red carpet is implemented for them.
PBR hastened to remember fans that security and well -being are the main priorities, and it is worth noting how well these animals are treated. Bulls live in expansion ranches, travel comfortably and retire to easy lives on the farm, often as reproductive animals, sometimes as family pets.
“If one of my bulls arrives at the PBR, then he has earned the right to live in my ranch like a player bull,” said the deceased bull breeder Kaycee Simpson. “And when he dies, we give him a tombstone.”
As the contractor Jw Hart said, “95% of the bulls that are removed, I suppose, the retirement program … and if we like its reproduction and its pedigis well enough, we will begin to raise them.” That’s when they get to “live simple life with the ladies.”
GAN – Good job if you can get it.
The injuries, meanwhile, are rare. According to the American Association of Veterinary Medicine, a bull that has only 0.004 percent of possibilities of suffering a potentially deadly injury in a PBR event. And any bull that is injured receives first level veterinary attention.
“My son plays football and I will say this,” said Scharping Shares Contractor. “The bulls hurt much less than football players.”
At the end of the day, Bull riding takes two athletes: one at the top and one doing the top. And PBR does not exist without doing his job.
After seeing his bulls acting in Nashville on Friday night, Manning was satisfied with what he saw of his bovine athletes.
“We did quite well,” he said. “I am proud of them.”
