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<blockquote data-quote="ToddFarmsInc" data-source="post: 556985" data-attributes="member: 8301"><p>I think a little bit like angie I guess. :nod: On a scale from one to ten, a pet cows is a little higher on my list, like a 7 or 8. I've had wild ones, and they get wheels under them pretty dang fast. I've never sold off a cow because it was too tame. My maternial grandparrents run a dairy for years and years, they new each cow by name. I'm not going that far, but I like a herd that gathers around me when I go out to the pasture in the summer. Personally I prefer cows who are a little more pet like, and a little less skidish. It just makes it easier for me to check on them out in the pasture, when they come running to me, and not from me. The only time I ever have issue with my cows being too tame, might would be when I catch their calves out on pasture. :shock: And then, I have learned to not be on the ground level with them when I have their calf unless I have the "shark cage". My cows do a pretty good job of keeping out of the back of my pickup, and thats where I go with the newborn calves usually. (ya my pickkup is an old beater, that's pretty beaten up, but it's better the truck than me. ;-) </p><p></p><p>I won't go out and buy someone elses bottle calf, but if I have one of my own orphan and it's a heffer, I'm really tempted to keep her for my own amusement. If I don't keep it back as a replacement cow, at least she will make a tasty steak. :clap: The bottle steers I will bottle up untill they are the same size as the other yearling I sell, then they get wheels under them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ToddFarmsInc, post: 556985, member: 8301"] I think a little bit like angie I guess. :nod: On a scale from one to ten, a pet cows is a little higher on my list, like a 7 or 8. I've had wild ones, and they get wheels under them pretty dang fast. I've never sold off a cow because it was too tame. My maternial grandparrents run a dairy for years and years, they new each cow by name. I'm not going that far, but I like a herd that gathers around me when I go out to the pasture in the summer. Personally I prefer cows who are a little more pet like, and a little less skidish. It just makes it easier for me to check on them out in the pasture, when they come running to me, and not from me. The only time I ever have issue with my cows being too tame, might would be when I catch their calves out on pasture. :shock: And then, I have learned to not be on the ground level with them when I have their calf unless I have the "shark cage". My cows do a pretty good job of keeping out of the back of my pickup, and thats where I go with the newborn calves usually. (ya my pickkup is an old beater, that's pretty beaten up, but it's better the truck than me. ;-) I won't go out and buy someone elses bottle calf, but if I have one of my own orphan and it's a heffer, I'm really tempted to keep her for my own amusement. If I don't keep it back as a replacement cow, at least she will make a tasty steak. :clap: The bottle steers I will bottle up untill they are the same size as the other yearling I sell, then they get wheels under them. [/QUOTE]
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