With the limes and the starting bonus, you can try fighting the bulls a week earlier. But within this concept, you need to reclaim the boots and break through the blue garrison a week earlier as well. In both cases, the battles are quite tough, and there were significant losses. Here, you'll have to conduct these battles with the same army (+starting bulls), but with lower attack. The losses will be noticeably higher, but by how much? It's hard to estimate.
The bulls are not as bad a bonus as the peppers, but by the time of the boots and garrison, it's no better than attack. And the 1-week growth is still weak compared to the stats.