skyhightree1
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LOL... High they run sometimes but most of the time they walk with a steady pace. There was a reason I did that video in that pasture and not the one with my bull he will run through the fence to get some sweet feed.
LauraleesFarm":2f21nb6i said:I just say "Come on girls" in a voice not too much over conversational volume. I don't yell for them. They have great hearing and are focused on my every word. If they are being pokey I might say "Well come on if your hungry". They know exactly what I am saying. And they will run to me.
houstoncutter":3mkm06kc said:For those of you that call your animals with your car horn, consider this. It would be very easy to call your animals to a pen by thieves. I know it has been done here in Texas, just something you might want to consider.
LauraleesFarm":3pla9sia said:I just say "Come on girls" in a voice not too much over conversational volume. I don't yell for them. They have great hearing and are focused on my every word. If they are being pokey I might say "Well come on if your hungry". They know exactly what I am saying. And they will run to me.
Must say...it does take a few times in a "new" vehicle for them to understand the new ...accent....AND you (a thief) would have to know what they (the cows) know. Last time I penned I had to change my plan...I messed up and took a phone call just after I dumped out the cubes. A minute later I got in the truck and 75% of them beat me out the gate. But me knowing my cattle I left for 10 minutes then came back and "led them to new pasture".... through a different cow lot.... :lol2: :nod:Commercialfarmer":3vo7ky4z said:houstoncutter":3vo7ky4z said:For those of you that call your animals with your car horn, consider this. It would be very easy to call your animals to a pen by thieves. I know it has been done here in Texas, just something you might want to consider.
Unless someone can mimic the ching, ching, bang, bang, ching, bang rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, ching, ching, bang sounds that our feed truck makes coming down the road, I think were safe. They're generally lined up ready for action by the time we get there. The stragglers we call in, I doubt thieves want to wait around for them.
I was thinking about this the other day. I know my dad calls the same way that his dad called em. I call them the same way my dad called em. Suppose if my kids have anything to do with the farm, they will as well. Wondered how far it goes back. When I was young, a friend asked me one time what my dad was saying. I told him, I don't really know, I'm not sure he knows.
need to learn to yodel :cowboy: mine is like a drunk indian chant,, anything works if they associate it ..inyati13":14b9xn5i said:LauraleesFarm":14b9xn5i said:I just say "Come on girls" in a voice not too much over conversational volume. I don't yell for them. They have great hearing and are focused on my every word. If they are being pokey I might say "Well come on if your hungry". They know exactly what I am saying. And they will run to me.
That would not work for me. My cows are sometimes down in the holler. I don't see them. After I call a couple times, Bertha will call back to me. But when they are 3/4 of a mile down in a holler, you better have a loud voice. See this picture, they can be in that holler at the end of that ridge.