Yeah exactly like you said, trying to “play” with us, the mom isn’t bad alone you just can’t pet her but if you get tough with her you get your way, the bullock is very lively and he is the actual danger.
Aggressive cow and calf
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Wellytrack
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With the greatest respect to the OP I'm not too sure you could be hard enough to 'boss' these animals. It's like having a dog that bites..... it takes a certain character to take these on and manage them. Partly because an aggressive dog will always be an aggressive dog even if you've manage to stop the behaviour for a while.
if you want to enjoy your field while you have those cattle you'll be needing a bit of pipe with you at all times and everyone with you will need to be alerted to the possible behaviour.
move them on and enjoy what you've got..... life is too short.
if you want to enjoy your field while you have those cattle you'll be needing a bit of pipe with you at all times and everyone with you will need to be alerted to the possible behaviour.
move them on and enjoy what you've got..... life is too short.
I reckon the OP should wear a high-viz jacket, a hard hat, and steel-toecap boots.What you describe is pretty much normal behaviour for cattle. Maybe they’re not suitable for your “farming” style.
Can’t pet
Need to be tough to get your way
Very lively
A danger
And we should all grow a concealed plot of cannabis, to make into hay or powder, to keep in reserve as a means of pacifying dangerous cattle. And if the worst comes to the worst............................
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Hello everyone, I have bought a house in the country with a 2 acre field and small shed attached and my wife and I really like rhino's so we bought a mummy one and it had a baby not long after. The mummy one is lovely but a bit headstrong and likes to tip over cars and gets so excited when she sees us that she sometimes can't get stopped when galloping up to see us, sometimes it looks like she is charging at us but I know she loves us really. Junior has grown into a big boy over the past two years and likes nothing more than to have play 'piggy back rides' with his mother around the paddock. I think he would make a great rugby player as he likes to push against things till they fall down. We have had to rebuild the shed three times now! My problem is this, his horn is quite pointy and we had another 'accident' yesterday and I bumped into it (its not a big wound and the surgeon said last night after the surgery that they got all the dirt out) is there something I can get to put on his horn to make it less pointy? It doesn't need to be too big as I don't want it to annoy him and it has to be cheap as truth be told we have had to re mortgage the place to pay for the feed bills and the rebuilding of the shed. We really love our rhino's and wouldn't part with them for the world, must go now as the consultant is starting his ward round and the nurses still have to empty my catheter bag and change the dressing. TIA.
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You might need more than one tube but worth a try if you can get close enough to him.
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I reckon he should manage cattle in the way that cattle should be managed and get himself a rabbit, cat or hamster if he wants something to cuddle.
We get lots of non farming friends ( townies) visit us and they love to see the stock, the most frequently asked question is ooooh is that bull nasty he's so big, my reply is usually no he's not nasty but if you let him rub against you like your cat or dog does then bones would break and your insides would come out like standing on a tube of toothpaste. But he wouldn't be being nasty just having a playful scratch
Sounds to me like you need a change of pet
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There’s nothing wrong with cattle you can stroke and pet but you’ve to understand some don’t want it and never will and the ones that do need to understand what the boundaries are eg stand for a stroke no bunting running round and the like I’ve 350 head here there’s 30 you couldn’t lay a hand on 30 who actively come up for attention and the rest are indifferent to it you could make the animals you have understand how the relationship needs to work but if there not tame you won’t make them so it’s born into them in my opinion very noticeable certain cows here are tame and there mother’s daughters are too
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I’d sell what you have and go and buy off a farm a cow that’s good and well mannered then you can enjoy your stock and land life to short to be messing with a nutter
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No, I'd say they should buy more than one - cattle are herd animals and shouldn't be kept in isolation. it's clear that neither the cow or calf are pet material, so they should both be moved on before they hurt someone.
sell the calf now ,if you are still wanting to keep the cow she may calm down once weaned.I take it she isn’t in calf again.But and here’s the But do YOU want to leave in a box because cows are dangerous ,a bull will knock you down and leave you,a cow will keep at you.Has the cow ever been friendly ,have you safe handling areas to separate the two of them.Sadly sometimes it is a difficult decision,I have just culled 2 cows they had too many chances and me close shaves.What do you think made her nasty or has she always been nasty if the latter only one answer.We have the most friendly easy going sucklers homebred but the odd one brought in is another story.
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I dunno lots of folk used to keep a tame house cow for milk years ago aslong as there getting socialisation be it Human or other cattle leave one animal alone with nothing to do is a different thing
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Sir loin
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We have a caravan site and one day a visitor was stroking the bulls head over a 5 bar gate, I immediately warned him of the dangers told him he is a lot stronger than you think never stroke a cow or a bulls head. It seemed to go over his head the warning as next day he was stroking the bulls head again. This time I was very cross with him and gave him a lecture on the dangers. You can guess where this is going cant you next day bull broke his arm I guess he must have reached under the top bar of the gate bull raised his head and snap.
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Absolutely. When you easily weigh over a tonne you don't need to mean any harm. Although I suspect the OP's bullock means harm.
One question I'll like to ask the op is do you have a dog do you normally walk round the cow and bullock with it if you don't ever again even if the dog doesn't have a go at cow she can still get very upset thinking the dogs a wolf kind of thing going to harm her or her calf.
Also my grandad always said That a nasty cow is more dangerous the a nasty bull as a cow will look àt you while charging at you but a bull will keep its head down never check this myself.
Also my grandad always said That a nasty cow is more dangerous the a nasty bull as a cow will look àt you while charging at you but a bull will keep its head down never check this myself.
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This sort of thing would keep me awake at night.