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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1816905" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>We came close to a similar incident this week. We had a load of hay unloaded and stacked in the barn. We store small square bales in this barn because of access and ease of feeding in the feeders that are attached to three sides of the building. The barn is over 100 years old and has a steep roof that raises to about 20 feet high in the center, but it is quite low on the edges. The stack consisted of bundles of ten bales stacked 10 high, over 6 ton setting on two 7 foot by 8 foot bases, and over 12 feet high. The cows were across the creek and five gates away, plus another gate into the pole shed. We never expected the cows to break through the first gate, nor that they would then proceed through three pastures to find the hay barn, so every gate but the one to their pasture was open. We were wrong. We returned with a second load of hay to find 80 animals in and around the barn. Fortunately we had put down one row of ten bales on the ground next to the stack and had another small stack of older bales sitting there. The cows went after them first and only grazed a little on the bottom of the bigger stack. There was a horrible mess to clean up, but it could have been much worse. If they had been there overnight, I have no doubt we would have found crushed calves under the stack in the morning. </p><p></p><p>Now we have shut every gate between the cows and the barn. They must have been able to smell that hay from a half mile away. They know it is there now and they all start calling and gathering at the gate every time they hear an ATV. It is deafening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1816905, member: 9933"] We came close to a similar incident this week. We had a load of hay unloaded and stacked in the barn. We store small square bales in this barn because of access and ease of feeding in the feeders that are attached to three sides of the building. The barn is over 100 years old and has a steep roof that raises to about 20 feet high in the center, but it is quite low on the edges. The stack consisted of bundles of ten bales stacked 10 high, over 6 ton setting on two 7 foot by 8 foot bases, and over 12 feet high. The cows were across the creek and five gates away, plus another gate into the pole shed. We never expected the cows to break through the first gate, nor that they would then proceed through three pastures to find the hay barn, so every gate but the one to their pasture was open. We were wrong. We returned with a second load of hay to find 80 animals in and around the barn. Fortunately we had put down one row of ten bales on the ground next to the stack and had another small stack of older bales sitting there. The cows went after them first and only grazed a little on the bottom of the bigger stack. There was a horrible mess to clean up, but it could have been much worse. If they had been there overnight, I have no doubt we would have found crushed calves under the stack in the morning. Now we have shut every gate between the cows and the barn. They must have been able to smell that hay from a half mile away. They know it is there now and they all start calling and gathering at the gate every time they hear an ATV. It is deafening. [/QUOTE]
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