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Help! Can't get cattle out of field. (Tried everything)
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Guiggs
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Judging by some of the replys/ battles going on in this this thread I would suggest there would be lots of arm waving/ shouting/ arguing/ and punch ups and fork all action resulting in a bunch of cattle no nearer to being got in a pen or loaded up!
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Paddington
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Went to buy some adult pigs years ago, the vendor said allow half an hour for loading. Spent ages getting the trailer just in the right position, the pigs were penned in walled enclosures and there were four of us (males, including a slaughterman) with sheets of ply and corrugated sheets to load a boar and two sows, well after an hour we went off for a cup of tea to discuss plan B as we getting nowhere. Sat in the kitchen the wife of one of the loaders stuck her head round the door to tell us men were useless, she had loaded the pigs herself, they just followed her into the trailer.
Perhaps feminine wiles are needed?
Perhaps feminine wiles are needed?
I walked 10 lim X weaned calves almost a half a mile from an out-farm last Saturday, on my own.
Through three cross roads, and met several cars along the way. No bother. Put them in crush. Injected for worms and walked them back again.
Met an old guy on my way back and he says in all sincerity "fair play to you. Pity other farmers around here didn't stay with the shorthorns like you"!!!
Still don't know if that comment was a compliment regarding quiet animals or a dig at quality of my continental lims!!
Through three cross roads, and met several cars along the way. No bother. Put them in crush. Injected for worms and walked them back again.
Met an old guy on my way back and he says in all sincerity "fair play to you. Pity other farmers around here didn't stay with the shorthorns like you"!!!
Still don't know if that comment was a compliment regarding quiet animals or a dig at quality of my continental lims!!
caveman
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- East Sussex.
Depends how much beer might be involved.
Jamesy13579
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Get a dog 
jimmer
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- East Devon
Get a dog
@Jamesy13579 ,@Jamesy13579 ,@Jamesy13579 , i see you are 17 and have a profile pic of a four wheeled not four legged thing
you will learn my boy you will learn
we were all young once
Cant move cattle with the family without a major domestic. Can you imagine a bunch of farmers who cant decide the best way in theory to put anything in practice!
Lucas Mac
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I'm not sure whether it was mentioned before but if I was the OP I would out number the 25 wild cattle with a larger number of quiet cattle, maybe 30-40 bossy hungry sucklers whatever your handling yard will hold. Feed the whole lot for a couple of weeks to settle in together. If you have enough big cattle packed into your handling yard the wild ones won't have the freedom to charge and jump, they will be dispersed in the big group and carried along with the majority when being loaded. It will mean more hauling about but you'll get the buggers home
Cowcalf
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sounds a lot more reasonable than some suggestionsI'm not sure whether it was mentioned before but if I was the OP I would out number the 25 wild cattle with a larger number of quiet cattle, maybe 30-40 bossy hungry sucklers whatever your handling yard will hold. Feed the whole lot for a couple of weeks to settle in together. If you have enough big cattle packed into your handling yard the wild ones won't have the freedom to charge and jump, they will be dispersed in the big group and carried along with the majority when being loaded. It will mean more hauling about but you'll get the buggers home
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
An outer collecting pen and an inner loading pen, the collecting pen to be fitted with a quick release jump door. Mention to the local badger group that badgers may be seen at play in the dusk and why not bring their dogs for a walk at the same time? The dogs to remain on leads at all times..
I didn't read this whole thread because... 11 pages!! I'm too lazy. And apparently there's arguing so who can be buggered. In our giant pastures miles from home there's no chance of a walk to get cattle home. Instead, this is what we do.
A corral is made - panels work fine. One smaller inner pen with alley for loading, one larger area. A large wing is made to funnel cattle towards the gate of the larger area. Inside said large area is yummy food. Set up the corral, place the food, wait for comfort level to rise enough for cattle to go in and eat and become familiar. One day go out and use the wing to push them into the pen or just catch them within it. Shut gate, shuffle into smaller pen, load up alley onto truck. More small pens can be added if you're going to do sorting and haul calves separately from cows. May not be the quickest method but it'll work as long as you can get a vehicle into the field.
I don't know what this herd is used to but I wouldn't say use a dog unless they're used to a dog. Don't use a quad unless they're used to a quad. Don't use a horse unless they're used to a horse. Don't walk unless they're used to you walking. Number one rule to cattle handling, keep them calm. Scared or suspicious cows are not cooperative cows.
A corral is made - panels work fine. One smaller inner pen with alley for loading, one larger area. A large wing is made to funnel cattle towards the gate of the larger area. Inside said large area is yummy food. Set up the corral, place the food, wait for comfort level to rise enough for cattle to go in and eat and become familiar. One day go out and use the wing to push them into the pen or just catch them within it. Shut gate, shuffle into smaller pen, load up alley onto truck. More small pens can be added if you're going to do sorting and haul calves separately from cows. May not be the quickest method but it'll work as long as you can get a vehicle into the field.
I don't know what this herd is used to but I wouldn't say use a dog unless they're used to a dog. Don't use a quad unless they're used to a quad. Don't use a horse unless they're used to a horse. Don't walk unless they're used to you walking. Number one rule to cattle handling, keep them calm. Scared or suspicious cows are not cooperative cows.
Cant move cattle with the family without a major domestic. Can you imagine a bunch of farmers who cant decide the best way in theory to put anything in practice!
That domestic in this house usually starts the evening before we move the cattle, when I mention I might need one or two bodies for a couple of hours tomorrow.
Then it continues on for about three days after we move the said cattle, what with all the posts mortem and various other inquires as to who was to blame for each and every one of the multitude of fugg ups!!
By then it's time to move the cattle back again. You get my drift!!!!
kneedeep
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Its fine if everyone just does exactly what I want without having to be told, the problem is I think dad and mum both think the same thing too, so we all do our own thing and shout at each other
Seems to work ok on the whole, but could be a lot more relaxed...
kneedeep
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- S W Lancashire
Can't like this post enough.Its fine if everyone just does exactly what I want without having to be told, the problem is I think dad and mum both think the same thing too, so we all do our own thing and shout at each other
Seems to work ok on the whole, but could be a lot more relaxed...
Can prepare for every event 'cept the old fella deciding to do his own thing, at that crucial moment when they are two minds whether to do as they should, or feck off into distance,tails in the air, thinking they'd rather spend winter in an exposed sh*tty field, rather than a warm dry building.
Doing anything next Tuesday? ??
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- North Somerset.
I move my cattle on my own. I found out long ago that I don't respond to being shouted at any more than the cattle do, so I stopped!
caveman
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- East Sussex.
Same here.
Build pen with hurdles in field.
Feed in trows for a few days.
Shut "gate hurdle" round, back up trailer, load and away..
Fekkin hard work carrying those hurdles up and down a slippery ramp on yer own though. (If you tie them to the side standing up. Make sure you tie each one individually. Or you'll have the whole lot on top of you as I did!).
And if you have to move the crush on yer own for pre movement testing ..............
kneedeep
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- S W Lancashire
Only if you can bring some new swear words to the party,Shouting at the old man probably.
Do you want me to come and help shout at yours?
I'm all used up
Trouble is he just turns his bloody hearing aids off.