How do you fetch your cows in?

[multi power]

I generally take scraper tractor, shift fence and generally catch up with them nearly back at the yard
I'm seriously thinking of buying an electric push bike for this year

 

[Beef farmer]

I would imagine walking and catching up on Snapchat would be the choice of some on here

You just wait....

 

[pappuller]

You just wait....

I can't

 

[Irish NZ]

Motorbikes here. Way cheaper to run than a quad and when you get used to them it's everyone's method of choice.

Keeping up with technological advances we have a Batt laches for both herd so they come in by themselves in the morning.

Recently the purchase of a drone means getting the cows moving from the paddock can be done before you finish lunch. Once they are out on the track they cruise at there own pace.

To call them from the yard we'd need a hell of a mega phone

 

[kiwi pom]

Suzuki Jimny lifted with wide tires

This, kit it out with break fence supplies if you have fences to move. Maybe some plumbing stuff for when you get to an overflowing trough or broken pipe and a little sprayer with the lance in easy reach of the driver so you can spot spray thistles and docks while you're waiting for the cows to walk up.
Get one with a good heater



I'm sure none of you have thistles but just in case

 

[celtis man]

We've got a huntaway called meg who loves fetching cows:
hates sheep!

 

[Dead Rabbits]

This, kit it out with break fence supplies if you have fences to move. Maybe some plumbing stuff for when you get to an overflowing trough or broken pipe and a little sprayer with the lance in easy reach of the driver so you can spot spray thistles and docks while you're waiting for the cows to walk up.
Get one with a good heater



I'm sure none of you have thistles but just in case

Always thought this was the way to go as well. Would not cost much more than a four wheeler, but would be so much more useful. Also safer for employees

 

[Dead Rabbits]

I generally take scraper tractor, shift fence and generally catch up with them nearly back at the yard
I'm seriously thinking of buying an electric push bike for this year

What model/make you looking at?

 

[Zoofarmer]

Quad here.
Lift any cows that aren't waiting.
Then set my fences for the next grazing.
By the time that is done they have plodded most of the way back themselves.

Same here, a gator tho, safer!!

 

[thewalrus]

I walk to the gate open it, turn around walk to the parlour turn it on and start milking by the time slow walkers always there by the end!

 

[multi power]

What model/make you looking at?

No idea, not thought that much about it yet, think I need to spend £1000 to get anything suitable

 

[Clay52]

Furthest paddocks are 2 km away from the dairy so I use the quad most of the time. Funny enough i would be happy to walk a lot of the time, not today at 45C, but others here seem to think you are just wasting time doing that.


When other people get the cows up you really need to get it through their head that the cows determine the speed. The quad isn’t there to ram up the arse of the cows to get them to move faster. You would be amazed at the people that do this. Guys that have been farming for 60 years do this shît. Then you get the comment of “geez their are a few lame ones”.

 

[Headless chicken]

Furthest paddocks are 2 km away from the dairy so I use the quad most of the time. Funny enough i would be happy to walk a lot of the time, not today at 45C, but others here seem to think you are just wasting time doing that.


When other people get the cows up you really need to get it through their head that the cows determine the speed. The quad isn’t there to ram up the arse of the cows to get them to move faster. You would be amazed at the people that do this. Guys that have been farming for 60 years do this shît. Then you get the comment of “geez their are a few lame ones”.

This is my major concern and I don’t know how I get round it other than a bollPicking if i see it once and the second time they walk

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Wouldn't do it nowadays as I'm more learned, but back when I was running sheep as well as cows. I had a collie dog that all you had to do was open the yard gate and he would go off and fetch them of his own accord while I went for a coffee.

One of my biggest regrets is not taking photos back in the day. As I have none of him.
Probably why I'm a bit ott with pics now I have a smartphone.

 

[Rossymons]

Furthest paddocks are 2 km away from the dairy so I use the quad most of the time. Funny enough i would be happy to walk a lot of the time, not today at 45C, but others here seem to think you are just wasting time doing that.


When other people get the cows up you really need to get it through their head that the cows determine the speed. The quad isn’t there to ram up the arse of the cows to get them to move faster. You would be amazed at the people that do this. Guys that have been farming for 60 years do this shît. Then you get the comment of “geez their are a few lame ones”.

Had a chap work here who pretty much sit on the horn whilst bringing the cows in. Couldn't understand why it didn't work so he would get more irate and start shouting at them. That didn't work so he would jump out and shoo them on then run back to the tractor and drive behind them until he reached the last cow again - repeat.

No amount of training got him to stop this and up the road he went.

 

[Ducati899]

Wouldn't do it nowadays as I'm more learned, but back when I was running sheep as well as cows. I had a collie dog that all you had to do was open the yard gate and he would go off and fetch them of his own accord while I went for a coffee.

One of my biggest regrets is not taking photos back in the day. As I have none of him.
Probably why I'm a bit ott with pics now I have a smartphone.

never have enough pics

 

[celtis man]

Ci

Furthest paddocks are 2 km away from the dairy so I use the quad most of the time. Funny enough i would be happy to walk a lot of the time, not today at 45C, but others here seem to think you are just wasting time doing that.


When other people get the cows up you really need to get it through their head that the cows determine the speed. The quad isn’t there to ram up the arse of the cows to get them to move faster. You would be amazed at the people that do this. Guys that have been farming for 60 years do this shît. Then you get the comment of “geez their are a few lame ones”.[/QUOTE Cor sunshine
Not had it dry down here for ages

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Furthest paddocks are 2 km away from the dairy so I use the quad most of the time. Funny enough i would be happy to walk a lot of the time, not today at 45C, but others here seem to think you are just wasting time doing that.


When other people get the cows up you really need to get it through their head that the cows determine the speed. The quad isn’t there to ram up the arse of the cows to get them to move faster. You would be amazed at the people that do this. Guys that have been farming for 60 years do this shît. Then you get the comment of “geez their are a few lame ones”.

Do you loose much milk when it gets that hot?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Suzuki RM400 i used

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Do you loose much milk when it gets that hot?

Cows here hate it when it gets over 30c , more so the black ones