How are bullfighting bulls kept?

Answer 1

Fighting bulls are raised on special ranches that are devoted to raising them. The young bulls are separated from their mothers at one year of age and then spend the next 3 years in vast pastures feeding primarily on the natural grasses. Once the bull is 4-6 years of age it will be sold to a bullfight promoter and, a few days before the fight, will be transferred to a corral at the bullring. In the morning before the fight takes place the animals are separated and moved to very small pens under the bullring and they will stay there until their time to fight arrives.

Answer 2

Fighting bulls are raised on special ranches (ganaderias) that specialize in raising the animals. The rancher (ganadero) will try to choose a group of six bulls (encierro) that are fairly uniform in size and conformation. Sometimes a seventh bull is included in case one of the other bulls is injured or proves unsuitable to be used. The animals are then shipped to the bullring. The morning before the fight the matadores or their representatives gather at the corrals of the bullring. They will inspect the animals and discuss how they should be paired. This is called the sorteo or sorting of the bulls. Each matador will fight two animals in the traditional fight. If one bull has a more dangerous configuration of horns it may be paired with an animal with less dangerous horns. The larger animal will be paired with a smaller, etc. The numbers of the the animals to be paired will be written on a scrap of paper, wadded up, and tossed into a hat. Each matador or his representative will then draw a paper. These then are the numbers of the two bulls to be fought by that particular matador that afternoon.

Answer 3

Bullfights are still held in most of Spain, in Mexico, Portugal, France and in a number of countries in Central and South America.

Answer 4

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