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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1226461" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>What i've noticed, they have scouts. Somehow, if the hoard is around these scouts can alert them. The hoard will fly very high, almost too high to see with the naked eye. Thats how they can be there in large numbers so quick, i've seen groups of up to 50. The only way a cow in trouble can be safe from them is if some other cow gets swarmed somewhere else. The way i've kept them away from our cows is, one, i'm out there a lot. Two, any cow who calves, i wait for her to shed the afterbirth and i take it. I find a animal hole and it slurps on down where it is out of sight. </p><p>This year we put our calving heifers in our backyard. Its worked out great. No longer do i see vultures flying around their group a mile away. I think vultures can tell if a herd is heifers. But by putting them at our house, i dont have to worry as much, but they still watch them. I had one heifer calve while we were in town, By the time we got home, she had eaten her afterbirth except for a small piece. One of the scouts finally noticed it and had 10 there for a piece the size of a slice of bologna..and they came into the yard. The lot is also small so the heifers are kept in a group, no one can go off by themselves, which from way up, is a easy identifier to the vultures. </p><p>We started losing calves to them about 15 years ago. Over the years i've worked to figure these stupid birds out. Most people i talk to lose a lot to these birds where i live. Its so sad, because the animal lost was more than likely eaten alive....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1226461, member: 22072"] What i've noticed, they have scouts. Somehow, if the hoard is around these scouts can alert them. The hoard will fly very high, almost too high to see with the naked eye. Thats how they can be there in large numbers so quick, i've seen groups of up to 50. The only way a cow in trouble can be safe from them is if some other cow gets swarmed somewhere else. The way i've kept them away from our cows is, one, i'm out there a lot. Two, any cow who calves, i wait for her to shed the afterbirth and i take it. I find a animal hole and it slurps on down where it is out of sight. This year we put our calving heifers in our backyard. Its worked out great. No longer do i see vultures flying around their group a mile away. I think vultures can tell if a herd is heifers. But by putting them at our house, i dont have to worry as much, but they still watch them. I had one heifer calve while we were in town, By the time we got home, she had eaten her afterbirth except for a small piece. One of the scouts finally noticed it and had 10 there for a piece the size of a slice of bologna..and they came into the yard. The lot is also small so the heifers are kept in a group, no one can go off by themselves, which from way up, is a easy identifier to the vultures. We started losing calves to them about 15 years ago. Over the years i've worked to figure these stupid birds out. Most people i talk to lose a lot to these birds where i live. Its so sad, because the animal lost was more than likely eaten alive.... [/QUOTE]
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