Be careful out there

[beardface]

Alkathene pipe or stick is no use when Lims get very nasty as we have found, I always insist my sons carry an aluminium baseball bat, not to use unless no other choice but it is the lightest most secure thing you can have when you really need it.

If I needed a baseball bat when walking cattle I'd either change breed or give them up!

 

[steveR]

Had one like it last night shoved the calf about 20 metres, bit of a hormone mix up or something, she settled down in a few minutes, calf is fine.

Think she did it last year too, weaned a cracking calf though

Red tag in the cow's ear!!

 

[Gulli]

Red tag in the cow's ear!!

Why? She's no danger to anyone, last year was her first calf as a 2 year old, weaned in the top 10% of the herd weight wise

 

[steveR]

Why? She's no danger to anyone, last year was her first calf as a 2 year old, weaned in the top 10% of the herd weight wise

Well, it was tongue in cheek.... more aimed at sheep crowd.

 

[Gulli]

Well, it was tongue in cheek.... more aimed at sheep crowd.

Sorry, in the middle of calving season the sense of humour part of my brain is a bit slow

 

[BrianV]

If I needed a baseball bat when walking cattle I'd either change breed or give them up!

You obviously haven't had limousines, not that you need it but one fine day when calving that you do need it if you are not carrying something then it's too late, it's not like cattle that are handled every day like milking cows, our cows are in cubicles for the winter & many will not pass you by without their daily scratch on their backs but there are always a few that you can never tell until they calve that would have you on the ground in two seconds flat as you put iodine on their calf & try to drag them to a better spot, far better to "be prepared" as they say in the scouts.