Dealing with cows!

[Phone]

Now there's

 

Maybe we should send you to Spain.

 

All,

 

Actually cows don't bother me. Execpt in this respect. I HATE them. We always had at least 3. Every morning rain or shine I had to milk. Every evening same thing had to milk. I promised - if I ever had enough money I wouldn't have any dam milk cows.

 

Interesting side note (like Dave's). Cows are genetically herd migrators. Left undisturbed they will always forage facing North or South.

 

Phone

[Dave H]

That's what i mean they are fascinating. You can live off cows. The camel is the eastern equivelent of the cow and even better as you can ride them too. I was offered 22 camels for my wife when she was young which was a substantial amount i might add but my life was being scrutinised by my bargaining chip as i traded so descrection was the better part of valour .

In fact the camel comes from the same family group as the cow (name escapes me)

The Camel can drink 320 pints of water in one sitting. It's dung has been used by armies to make fuel for their vehicles!

The cow is a sacred animal by some because its respected as mother nature itself.

 

I like them and i honestly don't understand why many don't. Perhaps it is the thought of fear as part of it might end up inside your gut one day...LOL. Or maybe more on a serious note is it's because they are a herd . I bet the same people would be scared amongst a herd of many animals and not predatory either... A herd of Buffalo is something to be avoided at all costs but you don't seem to see many of them in South London or Kent....

 

Cows and camels are one of a humans best friends in many more ways than one.

Edited June 18, 2013 by Dave H

[chesters1]

Dangerous things at any age ,not on the main deliberately so but they jostle each other to get a better view of what this strange human is doing and then its gets hairy .

Then you get the bolshy steers with just enough testosterone left to try and butt you out of the field ,not to bad when your standing but trying to survive when you are on your knees metal detecting can get "interesting" 'mind you my worst encounter was with a goat who left the scene with a mouthful of my hair

[Steve Walker]

I like cows too - I just don't trust them. Lovely friendly things on the other side of a gate, but they kill a few people most years.

[Anderoo]

I don't care how many stomachs they have, when you have a dozen of them barrelling towards you it's not nice. Twice I've had to run for it and just made the fence, once because they had calves and were VERY aggressive and protective, and once with a bunch of energetic and inquisitive bullocks. In both cases, in fields that were a public right of way.

 

I give them a very wide berth. I don't want my headstone to read 'squashed to death by massive beefy idiots'.

[John S]

I give them a very wide berth. I don't want my headstone to read 'squashed to death by massive beefy idiots'.

 

Arsenal supporters?

[Anderoo]

 

Arsenal supporters?

Or carp anglers?

[Mark Wintle]

Never had any bother with them. Went to school with local farmer's son (now a farmer as well) who said that the dangerous ones aren't out in the fields; they had a Freisian bull in a pen. Never take dogs into fields with cows as the herd leader keeps watch for 'wolves' and they react accordingly. Never try to protect a dog attacked by cows, let the dog run away as it should escape.

 

Once pegged a match and no-one drew peg 1, I had peg 2 and other peg in small field was 3. Found a bull sat on peg 1 where it sat for 4 hours with me 20 yards away. It was unconcerned and eventually got up, bellowed and wandered off in search of more heifers. Often been through fields with bulls, heifers, steers etc. Told a couple of years ago to avoid one field with a Holstein bull by farmhand as he tended to chase but there was a way round that meadow. When pestered by steers/heifers a switch (long whippy stick) helps. It won't hurt them but they will avoid it.

[Phone]

Anderoo,

 

Did I read your post correctly?

 

 

 

Close friend of Phone

[Rusty]

I posted a similar thread a couple of years ago. One of my club venues often has cows in the fields and I find them intimidating. The 'stand your ground approach' worked when they were walking towards me but it would take some nerve to do that if they were on the hoof.

 

If they have calves with them or if there's a bull in the field then I don't even contemplate crossing.