That wasn't my idea of a bucking bull."ĭon Kish saw the bucking bull as an athlete when few others did and encouraged feeding high quality nutrition to promote their athleticism. They were sorry animals and they didn't think. There was no special care or attention given to them. There was no feeding program to build them up. "They weren't considered to be athletes so they were fed junk hay. "As a rule, with a few exceptions, bulls were secondary in the rodeos back then," explained Kish. At that time, rodeo bulls were bought at the sale barn and were considered by stock contractors, rodeo committees and bull riders to be of little value.
Kish was still in high school when the Growney Brothers started their rodeo company in the late 1970's and tapped Kish to be in charge of the bulls. Bucking bulls are my addiction," Kish told us with a matter-of-fact laugh at the admission. But when you get around the great bulls, you can see their intelligence. "You find a lot of character in elite bulls. I saw that the better ones had personality." That personality, combined with the bulls' athletic ability made Kish a fan and more. "When I was a kid, I'd work bulls on the Growney place. Bulls have character," Kish went on to say of the animals who have been his life's work.
Now horses, they are designed to jump and kick and run. "Bucking bulls defy what their bodies are built to do. "I've always been amazed to watch a bucking bull buck," Kish told us about the reason he was drawn to the bovine athletes. And that was the beginning of Kish's lifelong passion for and legendary career in the bucking bull industry. As a young kid working with bulls on the Growney Ranch, Kish found himself fascinated by the bulls that could buck. Tĭon Kish's extraordinary bull knowledge is a product of spending his life with bucking bulls. The legendary Don Kish talks bull knowledge with BST.ĭon Kish's renowned breeding program has produced a wealth of great bucking bulls like multi-time PBR and NFR Finals bull #301 Copenhagen Cash sired by World Champion Bull Mr.
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