Help! Can't get cattle out of field. (Tried everything)

[kneedeep]

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!

So do I if I can help it.
Trouble is got 40 cows and calves that have to get across a busy road.
Good as I am .....
can't manage to corral em, block road with two tractors and trailers,
Get behind em to coax em through a gate that's been shut to em all year, them move vehicles, whilst being ultra polite and smiley to glowering drivers who have been robbed of FIVE MINUTES OF THEIR PRECIOUS LIVE.
Used to do it on a Sunday morning when it's 'quiet'
Got more abuse from church goers, car booters, and weekenders off to wander round Southport ,
@Landyman, @YorkshireAndrew

That it's now better to do it 10 am weekday just after kids have got to school.
Seems those driving for a living are more resigned to slight hold ups.

Trouble is this year , cows just aren't hungry enough to oblige just yet, and we've should be off by Nov.

 

[Ashtree]

Must treat for fluke tomorrow. Used to use a dose as its half the price of Trodax injection.
Trouble is I'm no longer up to dosing 700kg cows to save a few shillings. This time tomorrow I'll have yellow radioactive hands.

 

[C.J]

Made this up a few years ago.

5 12'x6' frames with gate hooks welded on.

Latching ends drilled for gate eyes - adjustable for uneven ground.

 

[tinsheet]

Must treat for fluke tomorrow. Used to use a dose as its half the price of Trodax injection.
Trouble is I'm no longer up to dosing 700kg cows to save a few shillings. This time tomorrow I'll have yellow radioactive hands.

Use latex gloves, solves that problem

 

[Jamesy13579]

Still haven't gotten the cattle out yet have ya?

 

[topground]

Still haven't gotten the cattle out yet have ya?

Or the Horse @Inspector Cluedo

 

[Henarar]

what if there was a dead horse in the field the cattle would want to leave then

 

[Paddington]

Any news yet?

 

[AGN76]

Can anyone see a load of horned lims in a field up north somewhere?

 

[Woolless]

Who gives a toss if they have passports, all that crap should have been binned when bse was found to be a load of nonsense.
I heard of another old chap not too far away who had over a hundred huge bullocks shot that didnt have paperwork, just a criminal waste.

Crap you may consider it to be, but without a passport they are worth nothing.

I believe the plan was to send them straight to slaughter. I think it would be wise to send them to a place with decent shed and handling facilities to sort out tags and passports before they go.

It would be a great shame to slip up at the final hurdle and half of them go in the skip at the abattoir.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

@Redwell . Did you get the cows out?

 

[Pasty]

Haven't read all of this thread so this has probably been said already but is the gate at the bottom of the field (if sloping)? Stock usually head up hill when rounded up. Again, sorry if it's already been mentioned. If you are going to build any sort of corral, make it at the highest point of the land.

 

[Pasty]

Or failing that .577 . Joking of course.

 

[kneedeep]

Or failing that .577 . Joking of course.

Never had any problems with .243

 

[buffalo_soldier]

@Redwell . Did you get the cows out?

You on a mission today @carbonfibre farmer ? that's the 3rd thread now ive seen you on asking for updates.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

You on a mission today @carbonfibre farmer ? that's the 3rd thread now ive seen you on asking for updates.

Having a bit of a clear out of watched threads, ran to near 52pages!!!
And not on the farm today...........

 

[kneedeep]

[QUOTE="carbonfibre farmer, post: 906462, member: 3683"

And not on the farm today...........[/QUOTE]

I guessed that bit right

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

[QUOTE="carbonfibre farmer, post: 906462, member: 3683"

And not on the farm today...........

I guessed that bit right[/QUOTE]
(If I could do smileys) "winking smiley"

 

[AGN76]

Now call me cynical, but @Redwell 's first post was also the day @Walterp last posted. Hmmmm

 

[The Ruminant]

Now call me cynical, but @Redwell 's first post was also the day @Walterp last posted. Hmmmm

And now @Redwell seems to have gone missing too........