Aggressive cow and calf

[Classichay]

Try asking for insurance for known to be dangerous cattle. Insurers asked to pay for a claim running to hundreds of thousands or millions will do deep dive research and if they come up with the fact you posted here and admitted to knowing of cause for concern they wipe their hands and walk away.

Basically hung yourself in the eyes of your insurers as most are keeping a record of posts on here as NFU regulators do and they share information on a data base if your not aware. Also making you liable in court so you could be looked at in the eyes of corporate man slaughter. Is a single cow worth prison time or at the very least hindsight of I could have done this differently. They’re commercial animals not a hamster. Don’t mean to appear a pr*ck but as previously said If a third party enters its pasture unknowingly ie service worker which regularly they do, god forbid a bobble hat wearing rambler with their hound, etc your not there to tell them.

we breed shires and we can’t even allow access with some of our colts as the risks are too dangerous but we actively put deer fencing and 6ft high gates to make sure there is zero access at huge cost to ourselves. We used to run a herd of sucklers and frankly they were tame at the very least but I’d never run a dog near them with calf at foot. Your playing with fire and someone maybe not you will be burned.

 

[TripleSix]

Update on the thread, we bought a fair sized pasture right next to us so they can graze there now with no interference or danger as it is completely fenced off. Thanks to everyone for their input

Get yourselves a few young goats and a couple of young alpacas if you want "pets"
Tame them and hand feed them and have cuddles...

Goats may sometimes want to kill you - they just can't.

 

[Blaithin]

Update on the thread, we bought a fair sized pasture right next to us so they can graze there now with no interference or danger as it is completely fenced off. Thanks to everyone for their input

What’s the point in having them if you aren’t confident in going near them and have to house them completely away to feel safe?

What’s your plan when you have to doctor one of them.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

What’s the point in having them if you aren’t confident in going near them and have to house them completely away to feel safe?

What’s your plan when you have to doctor one of them.

Or TB test?

 

[Bill dog]

There’s no helping some people!

 

[Highland Mule]

There’s no helping some people!

Too true. I especially liked the

Thanks to everyone for their input

when it’s perfectly clear that the OP has gone completely against all the advice they were given.

 

[Bill dog]

Exactly, I hope their relatives don’t expect flowers from the TFF collective, when somebody gets twatted by it !

 

[Christoph1945]

As something of a lifelong townie, and an outsider looking in, I have read a lot of posts on here about large animals that are presenting hugh risks to their owners and generally the same advice is always forthcoming ...... Get Shot!

I also remember the buffalo bull that took exception to something, or other, and killed his owner, the owners son, and badly injured the owner's daughter; leaving the family deeply scarred for life. I hope that the op bows to the wisdom of experience on here and takes the advice offered with every good intention.

When someone mentioned castration, I couldn't help wondering if such would work with chavs, violent criminals, and warmonging politicians; how unchristian of me!

Stay safe, stay well, and above all remember that your country needs you.

Chris

 

[davidroberts30]

When someone mentioned castration, I couldn't help wondering if such would work with chavs, violent criminals, and warmonging politicians; how unchristian of me!



Chris

First option of shooting would be better for a lot of them

 

[Dry Rot]

Update on the thread, we bought a fair sized pasture right next to us so they can graze there now with no interference or danger as it is completely fenced off. Thanks to everyone for their input

I suspect the OP has said he'd bought more land and the problem was now solved so he could make what will seem to him to be a dignified exit to this thread and probably this forum. I am betting he hasn't read any more posts and is continuing blissfully in his ignorance!

 

[Longlowdog]

I guarantee the truth of that. It will be someone else's fault when that mad pair of beasts harm them or another poor soul.
I had to watch aghast as a tup I bred floored someone. Thankfully no harm other than to dignity was done and the tup gone to make kebabs within the week, but it taught me a lesson I'll never forget and is the reason I will be less than polite to folk who know what they have on their hands and who do nothing about it. Buying another field hasn't meant there are two less mad critters running around the country.

 

[Christoph1945]

I guarantee the truth of that. It will be someone else's fault when that mad pair of beasts harm them or another poor soul.
I had to watch aghast as a tup I bred floored someone. Thankfully no harm other than to dignity was done and the tup gone to make kebabs within the week, but it taught me a lesson I'll never forget and is the reason I will be less than polite to folk who know what they have on their hands and who do nothing about it. Buying another field hasn't meant there are two less mad critters running around the country.

I once read tell. but don't know the truth of it, that more deaths and serious injuries are caused by tups than by bulls. All this talk of mad cows has brought to mind the guys that get married thinking that they can change a lass but learn too late that they can't! rofl

Me dad tried to give me the 'now you are a man talk' and I just said not to bother, If I want regular sex I will just get married; he still laughs every time he sees me now.