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<blockquote data-quote="TR" data-source="post: 28373" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>I have a question about this one.....I hear it all the time, and while I tend to believe its true, I'm still waiting for it to happen to our herd.....we have a CharolaisXHereford cross cow that's goofy. She's not scared of us, but will take off running if she even thinks we're getting close to the gate to shut her in the pen. Watches us like a hawk all the time......In any case, when she did it this year after she had calved, both her calf and her buddy's calf would go with her. Those were the only two. All the other cows and calves didn't pay her one iota of attention, and now, her calf and the other one don't either. They'll leave her and come right up to me in the middle of the pasture and will follow me all over. Basically, while she's gotten better than when we first bought her, she's still goofy, but none of the other cows pay her any attention when she acts that way. I might mention that we have really gentle cows and part of our strategy with replacement heifers are to bring them here to the home pasture where I can interact with them daily and gentle them before turning them loose with the main herd for breeding, so they're raised to be calm around us. Bottom line is that while the other cows' "goodness" has rubbed off on her a little, her "badness" hasn't rubbed off on the good cows at all. I would think this to be the exception to the rule though, right? Maybe we have a bunch of abnormal cows, and one normal one? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Either way, if she wasn't such a good looking cow and had affected the others adversely, she'd have been on down the road already. As it is now, she's walking a very thin line......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TR, post: 28373, member: 22"] I have a question about this one.....I hear it all the time, and while I tend to believe its true, I'm still waiting for it to happen to our herd.....we have a CharolaisXHereford cross cow that's goofy. She's not scared of us, but will take off running if she even thinks we're getting close to the gate to shut her in the pen. Watches us like a hawk all the time......In any case, when she did it this year after she had calved, both her calf and her buddy's calf would go with her. Those were the only two. All the other cows and calves didn't pay her one iota of attention, and now, her calf and the other one don't either. They'll leave her and come right up to me in the middle of the pasture and will follow me all over. Basically, while she's gotten better than when we first bought her, she's still goofy, but none of the other cows pay her any attention when she acts that way. I might mention that we have really gentle cows and part of our strategy with replacement heifers are to bring them here to the home pasture where I can interact with them daily and gentle them before turning them loose with the main herd for breeding, so they're raised to be calm around us. Bottom line is that while the other cows' "goodness" has rubbed off on her a little, her "badness" hasn't rubbed off on the good cows at all. I would think this to be the exception to the rule though, right? Maybe we have a bunch of abnormal cows, and one normal one? :-) Either way, if she wasn't such a good looking cow and had affected the others adversely, she'd have been on down the road already. As it is now, she's walking a very thin line...... [/QUOTE]
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