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I may have been mistaken about the use of "eye grease" to cover something else. Does anybody know if this statement is correct from a person who worked under David Blasko from 1990 to 1996?
"Roman was a young CASTRATED bull who was personally owned by David Blasko"
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
To add to the "Roman/Million Dollar Elephant mystery
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Wade G. Burck
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I beleive I remember something about him being cut, While Blasko had him.
Wade will try to scan and send you some pics. What is the email? Mine is leopardcat@verizon.net
Wade, yes "Roman" is a castrated male. An interesting note is that I have seen castrated bulls with temporal stains as if they are in a psuedo musth. "Roman's" half brother "Smokey" (Vance+Mala) is one such animal. Now I am not saying that is the reason for all the grease but it is something else to look into.
Darryl, Joey,
Interesting conversation. Someone called me earlier today and said it was a chemical altering. I also wonder if the rest of the story sent with the castration was true?
Darryl, my email is wburck3@aol.ocm
Regards gents,
Wade
Smokey is at the ECC in Florida and Luna and Tonka are on the RBBB Blue unit. Got to see all five babies born or a few hours old at CW. Will try to send along some photo's. Have a picture of Targa with Birka one hour old with Roman Schmitt. A very exciting time ar that time less than a dozen people had seen elephant births in USA.
Addendum to Joey
I was aware of the drainage, what about temperment along with the psuedo musth, any changes.
Wade
Yes, that sounds correct in the early nineties David offered the elephant to my dad, but he declined he had just purchased Benny a one yr. old male from Roman, and already had six yr. old male named Ceaser. he said two males is plenty of male elephant for our operation.
A little more stubborn and "out in space" but they seem to work well.
Joey,
You misunderstood. I was asking about a castrated/chemically altered male elephant. Stubborn and "out in space" describes my oldest son, Adam. LOL I'm kidding, you can still love love someone while wanting to ring their neck periodically. LOL
I wonder if the age they are castrated has anything to do with altering their behavior? Elephants, not Adam.
Wade
Darryl,
Imagine the excitement I felt in 1978, helping Bucky lift the first calf Buke sired into the trailer. There were even less of them then.
Wade
Mike,
Welcome. I hope you come back often. If you ever run in to a goof with the initials CMC stay away, he's trouble.
Wade
In the mid eighties my dad had a male named Vance. He was chemically casterated at the age of 16 or so, it was unsuccesful. He would still go into musth. My dad had Ceaser at age 5 casterated by via sergical removel. That was successful he did not go into Musth. As far as altering behavior between the two they both acted like males except the one would go into musth and the other would not. Still comes down to watching for negative intent very close.
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