IluvABbeef
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Especially when you've got to chase them home that's a mile away (or more, in some cases), they've jumped the fence during a particularly bad thunderstorm (result of having the top half of a spruce tree fall on them), have a flight zone of 50 feet and are panic-striken, haven't been home, or near home, in 9 hours, there's road construction going on not a quater of a mile away, and the neighbour's cows and bulls are distracting them by coming up to see whats going on.
Oh yeah, and it's too blamed muddy to drive a truck (or even a quad) and you've gotta walk, AND your in the neighbor's GPS-seeded, weed-free, barley field. So I think by know you have a good idea of what I mean.
Well, that's all that was against us when I was trying to help bring four escapees home. ALL four of them where wild (not the type that would let you touch them with a 50-foot pole), and no matter what, they took off at a dead run, leaving us behind to walk to catch up to them. And we did not want to run them either.
So. No quad (don't own one b/c it's not needed hardly), no truck. But walking. We caught up to them, over a half-mile later, when they were cornered beside the neighbor's pasture, with trees behind them, an electric fence on one side, us on the other, and no other direction to go forward. Again, they ran. But apparently, the electric fence wasn't electrified.
And they went right through it. To join the neighbor's cow herd instead, leaving us behind with nothing else to do but to phone the owner and let them know they got four extra cattle in their herd, and fix fence.
No word yet when we'll see them again, but I'm guessing we'll probably we'll get them back at the end of the grazing season.
Now, these four steers: 3 of them were bulls that had to be sent to the vet a few months ago, and the fourth an animal with a shoulder abscess. All four of these I posted about on here. All four I had to separate from main herd for their own medical reasons. All four, at some level or other, have this thing of giving me, mom, or dad, the deer-in-the-headlights-look whenever we're near them or with them. All four have ("temporarily") moved away.
Good thing there's more tamer ones that I can mess around with and be with more than them.
Oh yeah, and it's too blamed muddy to drive a truck (or even a quad) and you've gotta walk, AND your in the neighbor's GPS-seeded, weed-free, barley field. So I think by know you have a good idea of what I mean.
Well, that's all that was against us when I was trying to help bring four escapees home. ALL four of them where wild (not the type that would let you touch them with a 50-foot pole), and no matter what, they took off at a dead run, leaving us behind to walk to catch up to them. And we did not want to run them either.
So. No quad (don't own one b/c it's not needed hardly), no truck. But walking. We caught up to them, over a half-mile later, when they were cornered beside the neighbor's pasture, with trees behind them, an electric fence on one side, us on the other, and no other direction to go forward. Again, they ran. But apparently, the electric fence wasn't electrified.
And they went right through it. To join the neighbor's cow herd instead, leaving us behind with nothing else to do but to phone the owner and let them know they got four extra cattle in their herd, and fix fence.
No word yet when we'll see them again, but I'm guessing we'll probably we'll get them back at the end of the grazing season.
Now, these four steers: 3 of them were bulls that had to be sent to the vet a few months ago, and the fourth an animal with a shoulder abscess. All four of these I posted about on here. All four I had to separate from main herd for their own medical reasons. All four, at some level or other, have this thing of giving me, mom, or dad, the deer-in-the-headlights-look whenever we're near them or with them. All four have ("temporarily") moved away.
Good thing there's more tamer ones that I can mess around with and be with more than them.
Canola was the worst. At least we didn't get COMPLETELY hailed out: it was close though.
