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I learned an important lesson last night - handling cattle
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<blockquote data-quote="sidney411" data-source="post: 499301" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>I learned an important lesson last night. We worked one herd of cows last night and there was a bull calf, about 500 lbs. that would not go in the pens. We tried to get him in with the cows - he wouldn't go. We turned out a cow and tried to run them together into the pens from the trap - he wouldn't go. I had a bat. He came after me and I hit him on the nose as hard as I could with the bat and it DID NOT deter him at all. He rammed me into a fence - thank goodness it was only a dividing fence that was just panels and it was somewhat flexable and not one of the corral fences that are pipe. I hit him several times w/ the bat and he didn't even seem to notice. We never got him in the pen. I guess I'll have to rope him and drag him in the trailer. I was under the impression that if you hit a cow in the nose hard enough they would stop or at least turn - now I know that is not always the case. I'm just glad he's not any bigger then he is. I've never had one before that had no reaction to smacking on the nose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sidney411, post: 499301, member: 430"] I learned an important lesson last night. We worked one herd of cows last night and there was a bull calf, about 500 lbs. that would not go in the pens. We tried to get him in with the cows - he wouldn't go. We turned out a cow and tried to run them together into the pens from the trap - he wouldn't go. I had a bat. He came after me and I hit him on the nose as hard as I could with the bat and it DID NOT deter him at all. He rammed me into a fence - thank goodness it was only a dividing fence that was just panels and it was somewhat flexable and not one of the corral fences that are pipe. I hit him several times w/ the bat and he didn't even seem to notice. We never got him in the pen. I guess I'll have to rope him and drag him in the trailer. I was under the impression that if you hit a cow in the nose hard enough they would stop or at least turn - now I know that is not always the case. I'm just glad he's not any bigger then he is. I've never had one before that had no reaction to smacking on the nose. [/QUOTE]
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