Safety ALWAYS comes first.
If you learn nothing else from reading my posts, learn this: Safety ALWAYS comes first.
I would much rather read about you and your cattle on this here board then in your local newspaper under obituary.
People, cattle are NOT pets no matter how much we love and care for them, they are very dangerous animals, please understand that.
Please take the time to read this entire website; there may be something in it that just might save your life.
Go to: http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extens ... y/cow.html
If you learn nothing else from reading my posts, learn this: Safety ALWAYS comes first.
I would much rather read about you and your cattle on this here board then in your local newspaper under obituary.
People, cattle are NOT pets no matter how much we love and care for them, they are very dangerous animals, please understand that.
Source: http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extens ... y/cow.htmlWhile cattle primarily cause nonfatal injuries, they can kill. Over a four-year period in Wisconsin, cattle were responsible for killing 25 people, and over a six-year period in Kentucky, cattle caused 4 percent of all farming deaths. To provide a better under- standing of the types of injuries that occur and their causes, Table 3 lists l 8 of the 57 cattle-inflicted injuries reported in North Dakota over a one-year period.
Table 3. Some Serious Cattle-lnflicted Injuries Reported in North Dakota in a One-Year Period
1. Broken back (knocked down by cow and squashed to the ground)
2. Arm broken in many places (bull attacked all-terrain vehicle and flipped it)
3. Severely bruised leg (kicked by cow)
4. Broken ribs (gate not closed tight and cow pushed it open and ran over person)
5. Sprained and bruised foot (steer charged person and stepped on his foot)
6. Broken nose (kicked by cow)
7. Separated shoulder (caught between two gates by a cow)
8. Broken leg (run over by a cow from behind when chasing cows out of a pen)
9. Concussion and injured face (twice kicked by cow)
l0. Severe internal injuries (kicked by calf in trailer) )
11. Bruised neck and face (knocked down by cow and stepped on)
12. Broken jaw and loss of consciousness (kicked by cow)
13. Fractured hand (cow attacked person so he punched her)
14. Ruptured disks in back ("butted" in the back by a bull)
15. Bruised thigh and ribs (cow pushed person against a barn wall)
16. Fractured hip (knocked over by cows coming in different barn door)
17. Fractured collarbone (mauled by cow after delivery of her calf)
18. Internal injuries (kicked by cow)
These are probably just the tip of the iceberg since hundreds of injuries go unre- ported, making injury prevention one of the most significant benefits of improving beef cattle handling practices and working facilities, it is also good business.
Please take the time to read this entire website; there may be something in it that just might save your life.
Go to: http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extens ... y/cow.html