Cow Fight!

[TCRanch]

These girls have been fighting for 3 days and it's getting ugly! Pound-for-pound it's a pretty fair fight but the one on the left is 4 years older & currently sporting a nice gash on her forehead, the one on the right now has a noticeable limp. Not unusual for our cows to spar before & after they calve or when they rejoin the herd if they've been sick/doctored/etc and there's the occasional battle over hierarchy but I've never seen any of them this fired up for so long. They're worse than the bulls! What's going on?

 

[Lazy M]

They'll prob keep at it until one finally establishes dominance. We have some ladies here in the office that are pretty much the same way..

 

[cowboy43]

I fed a round bale several years ago and 2 cows started fighting I left and went back 30 minutes later, one cow was laying on her side blood oozing out of her, dead as a door knob.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I fed a round bale several years ago and 2 cows started fighting I left and went back 30 minutes later, one cow was laying on her side blood oozing out of her, dead as a door knob.

That stinks.

 

[TCRanch]

They'll prob keep at it until one finally establishes dominance. We have some ladies here in the office that are pretty much the same way..

:lol:

 

[TCRanch]

I fed a round bale several years ago and 2 cows started fighting I left and went back 30 minutes later, one cow was laying on her side blood oozing out of her, dead as a door knob.

That stinks.

Wow! Just . . WOW. Hopefully my girls will simmer down before there's any carnage.

 

[lavacarancher]

I have a couple that always seem to want to butt heads especially when I put feed out. Usually lasts for about 5 minutes or until the real alpha female comes over and whips one of their asses. Same as people.

 

[Gerard Dawn]

That does happen with cattle, they will be beefing with one another until one submits to the other and accepts defeat.

 

[Supa Dexta]

They get pretty stupid about it too. Have had them released back into the herd and start fighting after calving, and trample their calves in the process - calves lived, but it's not fun watching them jump all over a new born and pay no attention. Ive had luck scaring them off one another and settling down. But I wouldnt try that with bulls. I have tried with a 4 wheeler and it doesn't distract them.

 

[Lazy M]

Almost learned the hard way not to interfere in a bull fight. Once they get started pushing they don't pay attention to anything or anyone else.

 

[TCRanch]

Well evidently it's over. I have no idea who finally won the battle & they were opposite each other at the feed bunk this afternoon. Writing this one off as raging hormones

 

[Workinonit Farm]

Writing this one off as raging hormones

The operative word here being raging hormones. :lol2:

I've had a few, over the years, do similarly, but not for quite as long. On and off for 2 or 3 days. The worst resulted in my old granny cow getting knocked over sideways with a resulting bad hip for a few months.

 

[Aaron]

With the value of good breds where it is compared to the value of a dead or crippled cow, I would pick out the poorer of the two and send to town.