inyati13
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Aaron":1copjmz3 said:Incompetence abounds. Have never left the cattle for more than a day at a time, ever. People offer to look after things, but I have never went there. Have looked after other people's places while they were gone, and even checking multiple times a day, cattle still died. The last person I did it for left it for me in the peak of calving season, so I ended up losing one calf out of a bunch of live ones and got an earful for it. So I don't babysit anymore. If you can't be there to look after cattle 365, get rid of them. You don't deserve them. Best to go grain farming, then you can take lots of vacations.
Neighbor left for 2 weeks, a week and half ago. Thankfully he was smart enough to turn out 150 yearlings to pasture rather than continue to drylot them on a single water bowl and little feed. Otherwise there would have been lots of dead ones there as well. But he is an incompetent fool all the way around.
Whether it is right or wrong makes no difference to me. I have a hard time leaving my cows. It is a personal decision and not something others can dictate to you.
In my opinion a cow is not as dumb as Hook describes. I will speculate that few people in this nation spend more time in the company of cows than I do. I cannot prove that, but I have been retired for four years come Sept 1. In those four years, I have been away all day for only 10 days. I frequently just walk along with them. It is not that I like them better than people, it is simply that I enjoy them more than people. :lol:
Hook: Maybe they are dumb but they out-smarted you, reference: That wasn't going to happen today. ;-)