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<blockquote data-quote="onthehoof" data-source="post: 3608660" data-attributes="member: 11104"><p>I'm thinking more down the lines of something has spooked them, maybe minerals are a contributing factor. Going back a few years we had some quiet bullocks outside in a field as quiet as lambs, one morning got a call to say they escaped when we got to the field they'd broken out in 3 places and scattered to the 4 corners of the parish turned out there was a red deer stag that had got in with them, they were on edge for weeks after that. Then last year heard our cows making one hell of a racket in the yard going mental at something , that turned out to be a fledgling pigeon in the yard that couldn't fly and was just hopping around the yard.Just wondering if [USER=190]@fermerboy[/USER] cows are being spooked at night by a fox or something unusual like a badger. Also you will have a boss cow or matriarch in the yard the other will look to her to protect them if she senses danger then she will set them all off. Went to a really interesting cattle handling demonstration last year and the lady running it gave us some interesting pointers to how cattle will revert to instinct when they sense danger i.e. When a herd is surrounded the matriarch will put herself in the middle basically so the attacker will pick off a weaker one who will be one the outside but if she senses the whole herd is in danger she will break from the middle and attack the attacker, its all to do with the flight v flight thing, the boss cow is the one the others will learn from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="onthehoof, post: 3608660, member: 11104"] I'm thinking more down the lines of something has spooked them, maybe minerals are a contributing factor. Going back a few years we had some quiet bullocks outside in a field as quiet as lambs, one morning got a call to say they escaped when we got to the field they'd broken out in 3 places and scattered to the 4 corners of the parish turned out there was a red deer stag that had got in with them, they were on edge for weeks after that. Then last year heard our cows making one hell of a racket in the yard going mental at something , that turned out to be a fledgling pigeon in the yard that couldn't fly and was just hopping around the yard.Just wondering if [USER=190]@fermerboy[/USER] cows are being spooked at night by a fox or something unusual like a badger. Also you will have a boss cow or matriarch in the yard the other will look to her to protect them if she senses danger then she will set them all off. Went to a really interesting cattle handling demonstration last year and the lady running it gave us some interesting pointers to how cattle will revert to instinct when they sense danger i.e. When a herd is surrounded the matriarch will put herself in the middle basically so the attacker will pick off a weaker one who will be one the outside but if she senses the whole herd is in danger she will break from the middle and attack the attacker, its all to do with the flight v flight thing, the boss cow is the one the others will learn from. [/QUOTE]
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