COWS & HURRICANES

[KATHYWEEKS]

I have 2 cows, a horse and a calf. I was wondering what to do with my animals in the event of a hurricane? I have a small corral with a 3 sided shelter. Is it better to have them in the pasture (mind I live on a bayou) or pen them up in the small corral. Or leave the corral open and let them come and go as needed. I live in Hitchcock Texas about 20 minutes away from the coast. Flodding is an issue on the back portion of my property. But if they are free to roam they can find higher ground. Any suggestions from the old pros? Lockem up or leave'em out?

 

[J]

I'm going with leave 'em out.

 

[Medic24]

Unless you are evacuating, my vote is for a sheltered area, if you have to leave, then i would consider letting them find higher ground on their own.

As an example, and I know we aren't talking apples and oranges here, but, my neighbor had some dogs, last flood that came though, he lost the dogs in the dog lots, cus they had no where else to go, the free roaming dogs went to higher ground and waited for him to come back :cboy:

 

[groveman14]

I would leave them out. I live in Florida and what with all the vischious storms of last year only saw one cow hurt and a tree fell on her. She lived but had a bad cut. Many others were killed or hurt badly from all the flying debris from buildings, metal roofs, etc. when left in damaged buildings. We had 130 approx. winds and came out good, Flooding is a big danger, but you said that wasn't a major issue.

 

[jersey lilly]

Well we are 100 miles inland due north from Galveston area. We will be keeping our eye on Rita for sure as they are saying landfall somewhere in the gulf coast anywhere from new orleans to brownsville at the moment. And if we do get any of it we will be leaving ours out. No where to put em even if we wanted to. We have bottom land with a good size creek that runs thru the middle of our place and just 4 inches of rain causes flooding, and the creek gets outta banks if it comes down fast enuff. But our cows are usta havin to head for higher ground. Maybe that's an advantage in a hurricane situation????

 

[I Love Beefies]

I'm 35 miles from Freeport, I'm most likely going to turn the show animals out with the pasture animals, nature will tell them to seek shelter and higher ground, one of my show girls is about to pop and is going to calf any day or hour now, I'm keeping an eye on her and most likely will move her inland about 150 miles depending on when she calves. I've got her in the coral now but don't trust the flying projectiles and debris that her and baby might encounter. I gotta feeling that if its a heifer calf I'm naming her Rita!!!! Too bad for the goats, chickens and donkey they have to tough it out.

 

[jscunn]

I have been through Ivan and Dennis at basically ground zero on both of them. We caught east eye wall in Ivan and the west eye wall in Dennis. Leave them out !!!! We lost the barn roof and the lean too on both storms and if we would have had cows in those pens they would be dead. They will get out in the open and put there butts into the wind. They should be fine unless lightning strikes them. If that happens you may have a bunch of deaths because they seem to bunch up in bad weather, or at least ours do.

 

[gabby]

I vote to leave 'em out. Spray paint your phone number on them if you think they might get scattered.
gabby

 

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

I vote to leave 'em out. Spray paint your phone number on them if you think they might get scattered.
gabby

Good idea!!!! :idea: ;-) :cboy:


Luckily,I do not have to worry about hurricanes,just tornadoes,but everything I have always heard or read says to leave them out! ;-) :cboy:

 

[whatabull]

I have 2 cows, a horse and a calf. I was wondering what to do with my animals in the event of a hurricane? I have a small corral with a 3 sided shelter. Is it better to have them in the pasture (mind I live on a bayou) or pen them up in the small corral. Or leave the corral open and let them come and go as needed. I live in Hitchcock Texas about 20 minutes away from the coast. Flodding is an issue on the back portion of my property. But if they are free to roam they can find higher ground. Any suggestions from the old pros? Lockem up or leave'em out?

leave them out,

 

[msscamp]

I have 2 cows, a horse and a calf. I was wondering what to do with my animals in the event of a hurricane? I have a small corral with a 3 sided shelter. Is it better to have them in the pasture (mind I live on a bayou) or pen them up in the small corral. Or leave the corral open and let them come and go as needed. I live in Hitchcock Texas about 20 minutes away from the coast. Flodding is an issue on the back portion of my property. But if they are free to roam they can find higher ground. Any suggestions from the old pros? Lockem up or leave'em out?

Kathy the HSUS has a website that can help you with these decisions. Here's the link

http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_dis ... stock.html

 

[Caustic Burno]

Lots of them boys on the coast loose cattle to drowning from storm surge and flooding. Seen a many one hung up in a fence when the water has gone down.

 

[D.R. Cattle]

The cows will put their butt to the wind and take it with ease. Trees, flying debris and structures are the problem. Lightning is very unusual in tropical systems.

 

[tg]

Your best bet is to leave them out, and hope for the best. Good Luck with Rita we just went through Katrina. nothing nice.

 

[A6gal]

If you have just a few head of livestock that can be moved out in a trailer, San Antonio has opened the Joe & Harry Freeman Coliseum grounds to house evacuated livestock.

 

[D.R. Cattle]

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