A Hawke’s Bay farmer has been left shaken and battered after a bull attack at his Puketitiri property.

Farmer Robert Pattullo was moving 25 bulls on his 930 hectare bull finishing farm, Newstead, on Thursday morning with four working dogs when one of the bulls charged.

“It was a nice relaxing morning, the mob is regularly shifted in the area, which they knew,” he said.

“The most unexpected, random thing happened. A bull just came out of the mob for no reason at all.”

He knew something was up before the attack and had just disembarked from his quad bike when the 650kg bull charged knocking it over.

“After that I realised I was going to be next, I probably ran.

“The bull circled past the overturned quad bike and hunted me down, gored me into the ground a couple of times before I was able to get back to the safety of the quad bike.”

Both him and the bull were circling it; his helmet which had saved him from serious head injury was hanging by a strap, blood was pouring from his head and he had no movement in his right arm.

“It was out to get me.”

“We have been wearing quad helmets for quite some time but probably never imagined that a helmet would be put to the use it was.”

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