Cows ate tub?

[JHH]

Havent got to read up lately been busy but I have another question.

I have been giving the cows a lick tub (crystalyks sp )
once in a while. Well the other day they were out of them and sold me a cheaper tub in plastic instead of metal.Well now I cant seem to find the tub. I think the cows ate it. They have freechoice mineral and salt and good quality hay and I even give them a treat 1 or two times a week. The cows all look good not skinny. Maybe I have just overlooked it, will try and find it this weekend. Any one else ever have this happen?

JHH

 

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

When I was feeding tubs.....my cows (and the bulls) would use them for toys and I have found them in brush piles,the woods,and the corners of fences.They get bored and use them to play with when they are empty. :lol: ;-) :cboy:

 

[Bez!]

Havent got to read up lately been busy but I have another question.

I have been giving the cows a lick tub (crystalyks sp )
once in a while. Well the other day they were out of them and sold me a cheaper tub in plastic instead of metal.Well now I cant seem to find the tub. I think the cows ate it. They have freechoice mineral and salt and good quality hay and I even give them a treat 1 or two times a week. The cows all look good not skinny. Maybe I have just overlooked it, will try and find it this weekend. Any one else ever have this happen?

JHH

We have had horses and cattle take all sorts of things - light and heavy - and stuff them in the bush, take them across more than a mile of pasture and so on.

I am sure they did not eat the plastic - but I would bet - as long as it was not stolen - that it is out there - somewhere.

Have fun,

Bez!

 

[Beefy]

it might be at the bottom of a pond?

 

[shorty]

The wind might have gotten a hold of it

 

[LonghornRanch]

I put my tubs in a 44 gal. gray plastic trash can, then strap the trash can to a fence post. Keeps them from moving it around. Plus it keeps all the other "short" animals out of the tubs. I hate it then the cows play soccer with empty buckets and tubs.

 

[msscamp]

I hate it then the cows play soccer with empty buckets and tubs.

It does make it difficult to find the darn things! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[JHH]

Well I guess my neighbor used it! :shock: I seen him this morning and he said he borrowed the tub to get his heifers out of my pasture the other day. ?? I had not noticed his BLACK heifers in with mine. any way he stoped me and returned it.

Guess maybe he wanted some black baldies to go along with his angus He thinks that they got bred by my bull. This is the second time that that has happened in 6 months. My bull stays at home and his heifers come to visit.

Still dont understand the tub thing.

JHH

 

[greg02]

Try using a 22.5 size tire for a semi or dump truck. The tub fits perfect inside the tire and they cannot kick/but it around. I have longhorns and the 3 year old bull I had leased loved to play with that tub before I put it in the tire. I spent most of my time standing the tub upright again and trying to get the protein back into it.

Greg

 

[dj]

Try using a 22.5 size tire for a semi or dump truck. The tub fits perfect inside the tire and they cannot kick/but it around. I have longhorns and the 3 year old bull I had leased loved to play with that tub before I put it in the tire. I spent most of my time standing the tub upright again and trying to get the protein back into it.

Greg

An old tire solved my problems also. It stays where I leave it now.