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Who Let the Cows Out?

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Michael Soldan

07-04-2003 18:05:42




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We are haying and I guess like most farmers we get in a bust to get things done. Working full time doesn't help either as we don't get going until after 5PM. Anyway I unloaded a load and came out of the yard intending to shut the gate. My son pulled up in the truck and so I thought I would hitch him up, then I told him to grab some water out of the beer fridge and we were off to the neighbours field..... .about half an hour later the lad who rents my farm house was waving and yelling from his truck..seems some idiot left the gate open and the cattle were out....When I got there I told every one to stay away and I walked up to them,talked to them and started to walk towards the gate, them following, then the others appeared on the other side of the gate and I couldn't open it , I put them in the barn, then opened the gate and all returned except for one young calf that came eventually with a little help from my son...about twenty minutes with a good ending...the quieter you can deal with cattle the better..as for the idiot that left the gate open, he'll never change, but he'll have more "Experience"..... .Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Hugh MacKay

07-06-2003 16:13:28




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
Mike: My good better half and I were out for a drive last evening. Got up in MacGillvary township and crossed county road 21. Wife said ,"why not take that road it's paved." I replied," Mike Solden is keeping his cows outside pasture fence, and I don't want to hit one. Anything for a good reason to drive on gravel side roads. That's where all the Farmalls are that no restorer found yet.



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Mark in Mississippi

07-06-2003 12:49:35




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
I 2 have had my share of running in the dark after cows....usually someone elses!! I hav also learned that when trying ta get them back where they belong , more is bad ....less is better , people that is. My neighbor down here has the best heard of Black Angus I have ever seen. When they get out , and believe me they do, All anyone has ta do is drive in first gear and blow thier horn several seconds at a tyme and go towards the gate. They have been fed range cubes every day for as long as I can remember and thier owner does it in just this manner. Works like a charm!!! They WILL run you over trying ta get back in the pasture, better stay in the vehicle.After they all are in , there is a bag of those ever tasty cubes in the shed near the gate for just this reason.All the locals have done this for him at least once and no-one seems ta mind it in the least. Guess we are all one big happy family here in the south. Its kinda enjoyable watching a 1500 pound cow run at full gallop just ta get fed. I'd do for him any tyme day or nyte. Mark

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Norm in Alabama

07-07-2003 07:16:59




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 Re: Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Mark in Mississippi, 07-06-2003 12:49:35  
Mark, where do you live in MS. I go to Vicksburg often and would like to drop by sometime to chat.



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Mark in Mississippi

07-07-2003 12:00:33




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 Re: Re: Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Norm in Alabama, 07-07-2003 07:16:59  
Columbus And where in Alabama r U ?



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Norm in Alabama

07-07-2003 13:14:38




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Mark in Mississippi, 07-07-2003 12:00:33  
Bad typing on my part.



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Morm in Alabama

07-07-2003 13:12:44




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Mark in Mississippi, 07-07-2003 12:00:33  
About 15 miles North of Huntsville.



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Randy Redd

07-05-2003 20:30:17




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
You just don't have them trained right like my neighbor does. I went by his pasture a while back and his gate was standing wide open. His bull and three cows were standing in the gateway watching the traffic. I stopped and closed and locked his gate for him. Wouldn't you know it, he got mad at me for shutting his gate because he was still in the pasture with his truck. Sometimes, you just can't win.

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BIG JOHN

07-05-2003 16:18:42




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
This weeks TOP TEN in local farm paper was what cows think

1 Green Grass 2 Green Grass 3 Green Grass 4 Green Grass 5 Green Grass 6 Green Grass 7 Green Grass 8 Green Grass 9 Gate Open - Hole in Fence
10 Greener Grass



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STEVEN H

07-05-2003 09:14:02




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
hahaha, been there done that.
just had to bring home an angus and a holstein bull. we had been gone the entire day before and had not seen looked out to see them, when we found that they were gone it was abought a day and a half since i had last sen them. we have a bigger lake down the raod and worried that they might try going there. we drove around for a few hours looking and i started to talk to the nieghbors. my freinds grandpa told me to go look at two particular farms and see if they were there. i stoped at the first one of the two and the guy there told me that my cow and bull were over at the second farm. we had to walk the heifer home first. than we tryed the bull. more or less it was a long and trying mile to walk.
they got out because some ignorent fella that looks like me borrowed the eletrical cord a while back and well it might not have goten back. when i chatch that guy that looks like me i tell you what. pow boom wham and all that comic book stuff LOL

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cbl

07-05-2003 08:33:22




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
Had 28 head of cows and calves and 1 bull get into neighbors corn about harvest time back in 1999, They got out through the neighbors fence, and there was no doubt about it, even neighbor knew it. The guy who farmed his farm said there was damage and I should pay, said it didn't matter. Went to my ins. co and they said unfourtntly the renter was right, in Iowa you are responsible for you livestock no matter where they are at or how they got there. My ins co paid the neighbors renter and I sold my cattle. Moral of story "If you want cattle in Iowa you have to fence the whole state"

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Kevin in TX

07-05-2003 05:59:50




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
I volunteer with our Sheriff's Department as part of the mounted patrol - primarily parade duty, parking lot security, community service, etc. However, one of our main responsibilities is to round up livestock around the county - day or night. We have a pen that as a last resort will take livestock to when we cannot locate the owner or locate the pasture where they live and get them back into it. We had a black angus bull that had been hit by a car one night (sent the driver to the hospital, minivan was totalled, bull minor injuries - mostly angry) that we were trying to handle. It took a number of us including other members of the posse, Sheriff's Deputies, and a couple of cowboys to get that beast into the trailer. We built temporary pens and hid in the long grass. I'm sure we were a funny site looking back on it. The kicker was the lady who owned the bull was very angry at us for picking it up. She told us that he understood voice commands and all we had to do was call him by his name and tell him to get back in the pasture. Best I can remember, that bull never told me his name!

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Roy in UK

07-05-2003 03:26:07




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
As they say over here "To handle cattle you need 10 men , 5 thin ones that can run and 5 fat ones that can stop up the gaps"



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TP from Central PA

07-04-2003 21:56:14




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
Well, I had a far share of experiences chasing cows and I am still a young pup ;-P..... ..Most of the time they were young calves that could run like h*ll and go places I couldn't..... My brother fished one out of the river, we chased them out of the neighbors yards alot of times, and we even had excapes on the coldest days of the winter in the dark.....I'll tell you, it ain't any fun at the time but when I look back I laugh my a$$ off thinking about it..... I got tired of chasing them all the time and over built the new feed lot 300% so they don't have a prayer of getting out..... ..We had three that was like the A-TEAM.....They could excaped out of a steel crate if you gave them enough time...We sold those ones to the neighbors and they run through fences, pasture to pasture..... .Its a heck of a thing when three steers come in with the milkers in the morning..... .

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Jason - Senoia, GA

07-04-2003 20:04:51




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 Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Michael Soldan, 07-04-2003 18:05:42  
I know that feeling. I have three gates near my barn and have often left one open while busy doing chores. The last time my cows got out (tree fell on the fence), the sheriff's office called me at 2 am to ask if I had some cows on such&such road. I went over there where a deputy had a spotlight on about 12 of my black angus standing quietly on a dirt road. He left and I started walking with them following me back to the pasture - I turned around to shine a flashlight toward them and they were gone. Thick brush and briars were on both sides of the road. Did I mention that it had started pouring rain? I was afraid that they would get on a state highway just a half mile away and get hit in the dark. I looked for then till daylight over several hundred acres. As soon as it got light, they stepped right out of the thicket where they went in.

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Jimmy King

07-05-2003 14:23:31




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 Re: Re: Who Let the Cows Out? in reply to Jason - Senoia, GA, 07-04-2003 20:04:51  
Cows seem to know when you leave a gate open. With land on both sides of a US 2 lane HWY milk cows no where in sight left both gates open was there about 5 mins, came back over the hill met my cows on the wrong side of highway. Now I do have an under pass for them to go thru. do you think they wouild go back that way Ha Ha. Also I have had those 2:00AM calls from the sheriffs dept to please met the State Trooper on US 160 Because someone decided I needed a gate somewhere new.

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