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<blockquote data-quote="MoGal" data-source="post: 295654" data-attributes="member: 1346"><p>The hubby spent an hour and a half in the rain on Monday to get up a cow/calf (along with 2 other people) as calf was sick.</p><p>They weren't ours.</p><p></p><p>Today, he said he saw some cows milling around the lower end of the barnyard and went to investigate and found out they were ours, there was some fence down by the gate, they crossed over the county road and came up by the barn. He got a 5 gallon bucket of feed and they all followed him back to where they belonged. No fuss, no muss, no hassle. We have 24 in a 30 acre pasture and half of them were out but it wouldn't matter if all of them had been out the result would have been the same. </p><p></p><p>Everyone's environment is different - we don't need 10 acres or 50 acres per cow and that's why I like to get out there and walk around amongst them. I want them used to seeing someone every day as we may need to get one over to the barn this winter (14 of them are first calving heifers) plus I like that type of disposition. </p><p></p><p>Some of them get close enough to touch but its worked great this past summer if I had to doctor one for a weepy eye/pinkeye. </p><p></p><p>The calves are a little skittish, but when they get weaned they calm down within a couple of weeks and are as gentle as the cows.</p><p></p><p>When the vet came out last month, it took an hour and 15 minutes to preg check 17 head.... they went through the chute just like clock work, no fuss, no muss, no hassle. The vet even commented how easy it was to work them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoGal, post: 295654, member: 1346"] The hubby spent an hour and a half in the rain on Monday to get up a cow/calf (along with 2 other people) as calf was sick. They weren't ours. Today, he said he saw some cows milling around the lower end of the barnyard and went to investigate and found out they were ours, there was some fence down by the gate, they crossed over the county road and came up by the barn. He got a 5 gallon bucket of feed and they all followed him back to where they belonged. No fuss, no muss, no hassle. We have 24 in a 30 acre pasture and half of them were out but it wouldn't matter if all of them had been out the result would have been the same. Everyone's environment is different - we don't need 10 acres or 50 acres per cow and that's why I like to get out there and walk around amongst them. I want them used to seeing someone every day as we may need to get one over to the barn this winter (14 of them are first calving heifers) plus I like that type of disposition. Some of them get close enough to touch but its worked great this past summer if I had to doctor one for a weepy eye/pinkeye. The calves are a little skittish, but when they get weaned they calm down within a couple of weeks and are as gentle as the cows. When the vet came out last month, it took an hour and 15 minutes to preg check 17 head.... they went through the chute just like clock work, no fuss, no muss, no hassle. The vet even commented how easy it was to work them. [/QUOTE]
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