6/22/2023 0 Comments Raising bulls for bull riding![]() ![]() It is all a big learning process for me.”Īnd that learning curve hasn't come without help. I have been learning a lot more the last couple of years, creating a bigger herd where I can flank bulls different ways and try some new things here and there. I am trying my best to pick out the ones that work and don’t work. “For me I just pick a bull for the way he looks and what he does in the arena and put him on cows. I have had them for a handful of years, and I have only had a couple that I have sold for bucking bulls,” he said. ![]() Still new in the business, with just a couple years of experience breeding and raising bulls, Buttar admits he is learning something new every day. It’s always been my favorite look from day one. She has that grey brahma look, the big floppy brahma ears and hump. She had those bloodlines from A56 Tejana’s Back, I have always loved those bloodlines. When she was bucking, she was one of the rankest bucking cows in Canada. I won one rodeo and then the other time I rode her was in the Chinook Finals in the final round, won the round and won the finals on her. “The first time I got on her she bucked really hard and slammed me in the dirt,” Buttar elaborated. I loved that calf because she was a little grey pretty thing.” “The cow I bought I saw at some rodeos, the cows were hauled to all the rodeos and she was born on the road. “For her, there was some sentimental value there cause of the success I had seen on her mom,” Buttar explained. Not only does Buttar love the look of the grey brahma stock, but the blood lines have a sentimental value to the now 27-year-old. With the season currently on pause, however, Buttar has turned his focus to another side of the industry, working his herd of bucking cows and bulls at his new home in Eatonia, Saskatchewan.īuttar first got into the stock contracting business at age of 15 when he purchased a bucking cow calf out of a cow he rode in his steer riding days from Tom Thielen. 1-ranked rider in the PBR Canada national standings. The three-time Glen Keeley award winner, who holds two Canadian Rodeo titles in bull riding, is also a PBR Unleash The Beast event winner, four-time PBR World Finals qualifier and the current No. AIRDRIE, Alberta – Dakota Buttar is undeniably one of the best bull riders to emerge from Canada in recent memory.
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