Posted by Formerly PaMike on September 12, 2009 at 15:54:13 from (24.152.202.123):
In Reply to: The cows are out ! posted by muckfarmer on September 12, 2009 at 15:06:47:
My cattle only go for a stroll on Holidays...mainly memorial day and 4th of July. Story 1-Memorial Day I worked all day on Dad's farm and headed home that evening. Got a call at 8:30 from Dad. Cops stopped in,the cattle are out and in a yard at the neighboring development. We went out to the pasture. Cattle had 6" tall grass to eat but they decided to push through a fence to eat some sort of wild vine. All 14 steers went up the creek and into someones back yard. By the time we found them it was gettting dark and half the neighborhood was there. They were all in a retention basin in a back yard. THe problem was that they didnt want to go down the steep grade of the retention basin. They went up it in the light, but wouldnt go down in the dark. Finally got them down it, ran them down the creek and through a gate. Story #2 4th of July weekend. Eating breakfast at the resteraunt. Mom calls me at 6:30 AM. When family calls at that hour either the cattle are out, someone is sick/dieing or disaster struck. The calves are out. I went to the pasture and couldnt find any out, and I thought all of them were accounted for. I finally figured out what happened. A tree that had fallen over a month ago was over the fence, but not on it. Over night the tree had settled down onto the fence. Pushing it down enough for 3 calves to hop over. They went down over the hill and were eating the neighbors yard. Story #3 Friday night, Mom calls. She is out to Dinner and the police call her cell phone. How they got her number no one knows. Cattle are out. I fly to the farm. 12 steers broke the box wire fence, cross the road and are in a yard. 2 cops are standing there like they have no idea what to do. They look relieved to see me. I have them close the street and I run the steers down the street and through the gate. I have a 1400 pound steer that likes to scratch his horn stubs on everything. He scratched on the old brittle box wire. Tore holes right in it. Then they just walked though. Needless to say, I just spend $3.5K on new fence, and I am in the process of putting up 4k feet of fence myself. Cattle out is too much stress and the worst part of owning cattle...
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