Store cattle were moved in larger mobs, of up to 1,500 head, while fat bullocks going to meatworks were taken in mobs of about 650 head, i.e. three train loads.

Not only had they brought fresh fruit and several braces of chickens, but each dragon had a fat bullock or cow struggling in his claws.

My next visit to the farm was to see a fat bullock with a piece of turnip stuck in his throat but while I was there, the farmer, Mr. Gilling, asked me to have a look at old Badger.

He had collected a group of fat bullocks and cows from other farms and they stood, watched by one of his men, on the road high above.

In 1901 Jack Clarke left Warenda Station, Queensland with 500 fat bullocks but only had 72 when he reached Marree.

A fat bullock was then worth less than a pair of locally made elastic side riding boots.

On this day astonishing crowds of people come from the country to purchase articles in wholesale, and retail them in the different villages, &c. There are commonly from sixteen to twenty large fat Moorish bullocks killed on the market morning.

He've done his worst now and can't damage me no more till Lady Day, and then we'll all be out in the road, fat bullocks and all.

He began by dealing in cattle in 1851, which proved to be the most lucrative business he could have chosen, as it was just before the Victorian gold rush (within 3 years the price of a fat bullock rose from £2 10/ to £15 or £17).