The story that horns are a greater deterent then hornless cows has alwasy been a mystery to me. Years ago we had an old polled goat in the dairy that had managed to kill several dogs.
Yesterday a couple of dogs came sniffing around the calving paddock. All but two of the cows gathered around the calves, two of the ladies started that fast covering a gound shuffle, not running, but moving along pretty fast. The dogs saw those ladies bearing down on them and took off like a rocket was under their tails. The cows stood in the corner and watched them for a quarter mile before they disapeared from sight. Could horned cows have done any better? I sure doubt it. It's the physical bulk and the deterination that will get the job done. Even without horns, I'm sure those cows would have pounded the dogs to pudding if they hadn't baled out as fast as the did.
dun
Yesterday a couple of dogs came sniffing around the calving paddock. All but two of the cows gathered around the calves, two of the ladies started that fast covering a gound shuffle, not running, but moving along pretty fast. The dogs saw those ladies bearing down on them and took off like a rocket was under their tails. The cows stood in the corner and watched them for a quarter mile before they disapeared from sight. Could horned cows have done any better? I sure doubt it. It's the physical bulk and the deterination that will get the job done. Even without horns, I'm sure those cows would have pounded the dogs to pudding if they hadn't baled out as fast as the did.
dun