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Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
When are these feckers fecking off to Scandinavia? Dirty little sods have made a right mess this year & how they can be amber listed by RSPB beats the carp out of me

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jimmer

Member
Location
East Devon
Your exporting cows?
No no he is obviously planning on doing something like breeding them or fattening them or some such and so is talking them down to depress the market so he can buy them cheap , that said he probably has a shed full of them ready to kill and is drumming up interest in their sale
Canny tactics Rick ,don't know where you got the idea ;)
 
I would not be pointing my camera at them that's for sure. I had 4/5 cows go off colour and scour in the new year for a few days before they recovered. Vet said there had been several herds with more than just a few cows go like it. Must say they don't seem too have sh1t on your cows as much as some i've seen.
They seem too have disappeared here last few days.
 

DairyGrazing

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
North West
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I would not be pointing my camera at them that's for sure. I had 4/5 cows go off colour and scour in the new year for a few days before they recovered. Vet said there had been several herds with more than just a few cows go like it. Must say they don't seem too have sh1t on your cows as much as some i've seen.
They seem too have disappeared here last few days.

Yes, we used to get that here as well when they were here.
 

Agrispeed

Member
Location
Cornwall
Even just a friendly cow being friendly with her head could be fatal! Do you get any injuries @Agrispeed .?

I've never had any issues, occasionally a friendly heifer will rip a coat or something, I find the worst is when they are calves and they have small but needle sharp buds that catch you on the thigh. Generally the cows give each other a lot more respect and there is a lot less bullying or head butting etc, cows don't want to hurt each other so they don't really do each other any damage, you get the occasional bit of play fighting but the cows are always quite careful to lock horns in a way that means they are away from the faces. Its quite interesting to watch.

Why not???

I worked for a herd that didn't dehorn and got used to it, the cows came with me to my current farm. it makes you more wary, but to be honest a cow with horns is probably no more dangerous than one without if they really take a dislike to you, at least with horns they make you a bit more conscious. I find them really handy for manoeuvring them around and they are very handy if a cow is down! It does make people, especially those who are not used to cows a bit more wary but thats no bad thing in some cases.

Someone who works here, her dad only had one eye after a friendly Guernsey with horns turned around and poked the other one out. It wasn't malicious attack just a nasty accident.

I'm always more worried about the friendly cows than the nasty ones. I have a cow that if you stop petting her, follows you around poking her horns in your arse until you pay her attention...
 

O'Reilly

Member
When are these feckers fecking off to Scandinavia? Dirty little sods have made a right mess this year & how they can be amber listed by RSPB beats the carp out of me

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You need a birdgard scarer, plays recordings of distress calls. Works very well. They did start coming back in the cold spell last week out of desperation, but I don't think I have got it in the best place anyway. Use a laser if they get too familiar.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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