- Location
- Shropshire
A neighbour used to bring lim stores down from Scotland for summer grazing. These were the type that has never seen people and he turned them out.Know the feeling. Ours got out of the shed into the forestry commission plantation. Went round to bed them up and shed empty. Sinking feeling. I remember turning the bedding over with my fork to see if they were under the straw I was in such disbelief. Got them back in by a miracle but they went through several fences on the way as if they weren’t there. Only stopped them by running round the last paddock with some leccy while they were against the side with a hedge. Once they’d had a belt or two they stayed put. Lim X that hadn’t been out before. Mental.
24 hours later another neighbour had a big celebration party and a large fire works display.
Cattle bolted, crossed the river 4 times over the course of the summer and ended up scattered around the countryside. 12 months later he still had one roaming the countryside and being an Agronomist I was walking OSR for dedicating at the end of June when this 600kg wild steer got up from under my feet like a hare and bolted down a tramline at about 30mph.
It was serious brown trouser time.
We finally caught it when it got in with our grazing cattle and followed them into a building, 16 months after they turned up!