Risk tolerance is almost always based on your own ability to perform a given task. How many would call bull riding, or driving a crop duster, or working on the side of a hill with a tractor, high risk? These tasks are done all the time, and by some who make it look easy. They also live to tell about it when their old. Other people would have, and do have, catastrophic results. If you want to pet and comb your cows, you alone are the one to access the risk involved. If it works for you, then do it. P.S. If I ever had someone working for me, using a nail or any other sharp object on my cows and (or when) I found out, they had better be 10 states over, or hope the bull runs them over first. And no, I don't ride bulls, to dangerous! :mrgreen: Orton
