People don’t realize that they are not safe anywhere near bison. Bison are huge. They can easily flip a car or small truck. They are fast and can turn quickly. I have been near them in the bad lands. One minute they are near you and the next they are half a mile away.
The ranger who’s wife ran a B and B on their ranch told us that tourists are injured all the time. And that ranchers who switched from cows to American buffalo were in for a shock when their truck was flipped or their horse was killed. Raising bison is a dangerous business. And while these huge herbivores don’t mean to pick fights, most people have no idea when they are scaring one of these 8 foot tall, three thousand pound animals.
They can clear a fence easily, too.
There’s a place called Needmore Buffalo farm in Indiana where you can get quite an education on raising them. Another thing people don’t know is they have a “soft side.”
Yep...their hair is not scratchy or stiff like cattle, it is very, very soft and can be spun into a fine yarn.
But of course shearing them isn’t practical or safe, so you can go to the farm and collect the fur off of the barbed wire fencing in spring/summer when they shed their winter “wool” in great clumps.