llamedos
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Anyone who knows the area, will know this was no mean feat, well done all.
@Leereade @Darren Hough @Landyman @Av Gorritt
@Leereade @Darren Hough @Landyman @Av Gorritt
Droving the Cattle
- Thread starter llamedos
- Start date
- Location
- N.Lincs
I was expecting to see some vintage black and white footage - not some from this week
Top job
Top job
borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
Top job indeed! Am loving the way that the locals hardly seem to bat an eyelid at them coming down the street.
Long Croft Farming
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- Location
- North Derbyshire
Good work
we do this quite often with sheep and know it can take a lot of planning to make sure it goes well
we do this quite often with sheep and know it can take a lot of planning to make sure it goes well
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
Almost a relic of a bygone era walking stock through towns.
A story from my Granny who was brought up on the north side of Loch Tay. They used to walk the stirks to the February sale in Aberfeldy, 13 miles away. Having spent the winter tied in the byres the cattle run for the first 4 miles.
A story from my Granny who was brought up on the north side of Loch Tay. They used to walk the stirks to the February sale in Aberfeldy, 13 miles away. Having spent the winter tied in the byres the cattle run for the first 4 miles.
llamedos
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One of my mums jobs as a young girl was to walk calves from their farm to her uncles, over a similar distance,same area, and on occasion she said she would almost get them there and the calves would take fright and run all the way back home, arriving there way before she did, as soon as she could drive, granddad bought her a little A40 van to drive them there. It is a road with open moor both sides, so she would be having to stop them going astray, even though traffic would have been passing her very seldom, that would in its self have scared her and the calves.
Philip Watkins
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- Location
- Back in Shropshire
How about merging this thread with the other one
Darren Hough
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- Location
- Lancs
llamedos
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we use to drive our heifers down the A303, that was a laugh it usually involved Dad cussing someone, where they joined the 303 is a big crossroads and if you were on in front you had to get out in the road and stop the traffic both ways and the heifers would arrive down the hill at a fair rate
also drove them though the village a time or two had them jump in peoples gardens,
also drove them though the village a time or two had them jump in peoples gardens,
- Location
- Breconshire
And nicely trimmed feet at the end of it
My father used to tell us about one time when he walking cattle through Brecon to the mart. It was summer and they were straight off grass and one heifer went in through the open door of a house, down the passage and then turned herself around, wiping her sh!tty backside in the wallpaper before coming back out. He just kept going to the mart but often wondered what the reaction would have been when the new green paint was discovered.
My father used to tell us about one time when he walking cattle through Brecon to the mart. It was summer and they were straight off grass and one heifer went in through the open door of a house, down the passage and then turned herself around, wiping her sh!tty backside in the wallpaper before coming back out. He just kept going to the mart but often wondered what the reaction would have been when the new green paint was discovered.
Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I'm told they used to walk fat geese to market over long distances , and to protect their feet they coated them in pitch . Bit of a senior moment though - I've forgotten for the moment where this was . No doubt someone on here will know . Right opposite our farmyard there is a small open square of land , which we have used " without let or hindrance" certainly for over 50 years , and before us , the last people , but there was an old chap in one of the cottages who assured me that the piece was , quote "Gypsy Land " and thus common land .The old Roman road from Melandra in Glossop comes in at one side and out the other on it's way to what is now Dovestone reservoir , and beyond . He reckoned that drovers used to use the Roman Road droving cattle and would rest them there overnight . True ? I don't know , perhaps somebody does .
mwj
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- Location
- Illinois USA
They did the same in my country. They would walk the geese thru the tar and then over dry sand. If they had a long drive they would coat there feet twice. The old timers called it ''goose boots''.
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
There's a film about doing that, quite good it was too.
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
Found it https://www.amazon.com/Singletons-Pluck-Ian-Holme/dp/B004X2JMXC
My father used to tell of helping his uncle walk cattle from here to Downpatrick which is 25 odd miles away.
Also used to buy cattle in the south which would arrive in local town by train, then walked the 7 odd miles home....wouldn't fancy trying it now tho.
Neighbour walked his cattle on the roads to fields & back up until a couple of years ago, tho his cattle were as often on the road as they were in the fields they were close to being homing pigeons
My father used to tell of helping his uncle walk cattle from here to Downpatrick which is 25 odd miles away.
Also used to buy cattle in the south which would arrive in local town by train, then walked the 7 odd miles home....wouldn't fancy trying it now tho.
Neighbour walked his cattle on the roads to fields & back up until a couple of years ago, tho his cattle were as often on the road as they were in the fields they were close to being homing pigeons