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and l sincerely hope we never have to again. But all the major hassles, chasing cattle, seem to have a 'limmy' base, but that's with neighbours cattle, we don't have lims now.The problem is its a 4 day old calf that's never had human contact and now has some strange man running after it, the breed is irrelevant!
50% + of dad's sucklers come from limo x friesians, they're quiet as mice! I've got photos of me sat on the back of my pure limo, as they calved in I used to milk them and check their quarters were OK, and didn't calve in with mastitis etc
I've certainly never had to shoot a mad one!
The only other time we have shot a spooked animal, was a pure sim heifer, that we couldn't move with the bunch, from an orchard, she got well spooked. The owner was getting a bit 'anxious', as a few apples came down, cider apples, beginning of sept. We organised a dart gun from cricket-st-thomas wild life park, shot it, it jumped stockfence +2 barbs, ditch and hedge, and my neighbour returned it next day, as quiet as a mouse, and stayed that way.