Dennis Davis Bucking Bulls

By Kelly B. Robbins

Dennis Davis Bucking Bulls is a unique operation in Orchard, Texas that began on January 1, 2019. Dennis Davis is a stock contractor with a twist. He only owns a handful of bucking bulls. “99.9% of the bulls I haul belong to others. I am on the training end only,” Dennis said. “I don’t put on any events, but I care for, house, train and haul bulls for a number of people who were bull riding fans but are now bull owners.”

His program is patterned after the futurity blueprint pioneered by Billy Jaynes of Exclusive Genetics/ Bucking Bull Games and The Jaynes Gang. You may remember that Dennis worked for Billy Jaynes’ Exclusive Genetics/ Bucking Bull Games. “I started working with Billy and The Jaynes Gang in 2012,” Dennis revealed. “I trained and hauled the bulls to the events. When Billy became the CEO of Championship Bull Riding, I was named the President of Bucking Bull Games and the Jaynes Gang.”

2016 “OMG” Trainer of the Year Award Billy Jaynes closed Exclusive Genetics/ Bucking Bull Games on December 31,2018. In his online closing announcement, he said this about Dennis: “I am pleased to announce that my devoted trainer Dennis Davis will be embarking on his own thousand-mile journey and inaugurating Dennis Davis Bucking Bulls. I have seen Dennis grow from his early days with The Jaynes Gang into one of the premier bucking bull trainers in the entire industry. He is a man of tremendous skill, knowledge, loyalty and personal integrity. It is an honor to call him my friend. I encourage all my customers to leave their bulls in the capable hands of Dennis. I am so sure of the future success of Dennis, that I am offering

my training facilities for him to work his magic.”

Dennis is a former bull rider, who started riding bulls while he was in high school. He grew up around the rodeo, and his parents owned a ranch. His father’s side of the family were rodeo cowboys. Dennis quit riding bulls to accept a track scholarship to Texas Southern. When he graduated, he again rode bulls in the PRCA and CPRA rodeo circuits. He also rode in some PBR Touring Pro events.

Dennis currently leases the Exclusive Genetics ranch in Orchard, Texas. “Right now, I have 35 bulls in my program,” Dennis shared. “That number will grow to about 75 as the season progresses and our customers acquire more juvenile bulls (formerly called yearling bulls by the ABBI).”

“The training I provide is similar to an athletic trainer for a team,” Dennis explained. “I don’t teach a bull to buck. I monitor their athletic ability and their maturity. I buck them, do chute work with a dummy, and keep them in shape. They get exercise every day where they graze. We put the food on one side of the field, and the water on the other side. I tried several different blends of feed. Our feed mixture is basic, but it is16% protein. This helps keep their energy level up. We treat these bulls like the athletes they are.”

“The bull’s digestive structure is different than humans,” Dennis observed. “But their intake and consequences are similar to humans. What they eat and how much they eat effects each bull differently, just like people. I monitor them daily and if a bull starts getting in bad shape, I’ll adjust his feed and exercise him like you would a horse in a pen.”

“My program is very much like training racehorses,” Dennis continued. “The trainer is paid to house, feed and care for the horses. He monitors them, exercises them, and hauls them to an event. The owners have no hands-on interaction with their animal, but they do come and watch their horse race and collect the winnings!”

Dennis Davis Bucking Bulls’ motto is: YOU CAN OWN A BUCKING BULL! There is no truck, trailer or ranch necessary! I furnish these and you pay the expenses for your bull. “Folks will contact me and let me know what class of bull they are interested in owning,” Dennis said. “The classes are yearling (one-year-old), futurity (two-year-old), derby (three-year-old), and classic (fouryear-old). They also let me know if they want rider bulls or bull teams.”

“Once I know what the customer is looking for, I hook them up with the breeder contacts I have for whatever class they have chosen. I either connect them with a breeder directly or do the transaction for them. Once they have purchased a bucking bull and it is here, the owner pays a monthly fee for me to take care of

the bull and haul it to an event. The standard contract calls for the owner to pay us $400.00 per month and we retain 20% of whatever the bull earns.”

“There are different events for the different classes and levels of bulls,” Dennis divulged. “If a customer has an outstanding bucking bull, there are events that have open formats and the bulls can win some big money. Lower priced bulls can compete in 4-D events, which gives the bulls four chances to win money. I’m on the road 48 weekends out of the year. We have all class of bulls, and I have an event somewhere every weekend.”

When I talked to Dennis, he was in San Antonio for the NCBA (National Cattlemen’s Beef Association) Convention and Trade Show. His bulls were going to buck at a special event held during the intermission of the PBR Touring Pro event. “This crowd is cattle people from all over the nation,” Dennis said. “They really enjoy this!”

“Last week our bull teams won first and fourth place at the Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour event in Knoxville, Tennessee,” Dennis disclosed. “The week before that our bull teams won first and third place at the Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour event in Lexington, Kentucky.”

I asked Dennis if he had a favorite bull right now. “Not really,” he answered. “I treat them all pretty much the same. But I am working with a four-year-old bull named Lockdown that is showing real promise to be an outstanding bucking bull. He is owned by Cleve

Garey of Colorado.”

If you are a bull riding fan and interested in taking your passion to the next level as a bucking bull owner, you can contact Dennis at 979-618-6503 or online at www.dennisdavisbuckingbulls.com.

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Bucking bull fans from Costa Rica visit Dennis Davis Bucking Bulls in Texas.