That sinking feeling,cattle out!

[Yale]

This morning my sister rings to say there’s a picture of cattle out in the centre of the village on the local Facebook page.

Its one of the worst feelings.

So,all the family tufed out in two vehicles hunting the streets.Turns out it was a neighbours cow and calf where he had forgot to tie a gate properly.

Thank god they weren’t ours!

 

[topground]

An old farmer told me many years ago that the one good thing about cattle beng out is that they take their mouths with them!

 

[Farfrae]

An old farmer told me many years ago that the one good thing about cattle beng out is that they take their mouths with them!

But not when you have to offset with having pay to reinstate people's gardens and lawns.

 

[shearerlad]

What we call “grazing the long acre”

One of our neighbours let a cow into their garden through the electric gates!!

 

[Henarar]

Worse thing is when you go to check them and their gone and you can't find them

 

[jellybean]

Imagine what it's like when all your deer get out and are a mile from home when you find them. Only happened twice so far.

 

[Man_in_black]

Its one of the worst feelings

Yep. It was only after I got rid of my own sheep that I started answering unknown phone numbers again!!

 

[hinchy]

Turns out it was a neighbours cow and calf...

Thank god they weren’t ours!

One of the best feelings!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Thought this thread was going to be about cows still out and sinking in the wet ground!

 

[Iain289]

Imagine what it's like when all your deer get out and are a mile from home when you find them. Only happened twice so far.

Can deer be rounded up or do you just have to bid them fair well??

 

[jellybean]

Can deer be rounded up or do you just have to bid them fair well??

First time they all got out was quite amusing really, they ended up in a grass field about 3/4 mile away. The farmer was rolling and because we are in an area with quite a high wild population of reds he was not surprised to see a group of hinds wallowing in a wet spot but it took him 6 or 7 bouts up and down the field before he realised they all had big ear tags. eventually somebody called my wife who went down with a bucket of nuts. She called them out onto the road and proceeded to walk them home, encountering some disbelief from motorists when they were asked if they would mind pulling over and switching off while some deer come past.
She got them to within 200 yards of home when they freaked out at some flapping orange roadwork protection stuff and popped over a hedge. When I got home we got them back the rest of the way quite easily.
Bear in mind these had all been born on the farm. Usually when farmed deer get out they go for a rip for a few hours then drift back home.
Most places where I have helped people get deer back in we have been almost 100% successful. This includes several farms where fences were cut in multiple places by the ALF and even a farm within 2 fields of the M5.
You just need to keep your cool and not have people tearing about trying to "help"

 

[delilah]

This is one of the serious downsides to keeping cattle in a predominantly arable area, if they get out there's nothing to stop them going miles as all the fences have been ripped out to let the combine through. Just one more reason why a return to a rotation involving livestock would make life that bit more pleasant.

 

[Jerry]

Had that call two weeks ago.

45 heifers found wandering around the golf course nextdoor.

oops.......

 

[primmiemoo]

That sinking feeling when the strip of mud and grass up the middle of the roads runs out, and suddenly, the only trace of the sucklers is a single cowpat, plumb in the middle of a five-cross way ... .

Or when they've taken to the streams, and only come out when it's a foot deeper two mile away ... And they want to come home another route ... .

 

[MickyMook]

This is one of the serious downsides to keeping cattle in a predominantly arable area, if they get out there's nothing to stop them going miles as all the fences have been ripped out to let the combine through. Just one more reason why a return to a rotation involving livestock would make life that bit more pleasant.

Also a serious downside to having fragmented grazing ground - it takes half an hour to get to where they broke from, and another half hour to find them. They can damage a few lawns in that time frame. It takes a lot of diplomacy to keep neighbourly relations friendly when stuff like that happens

 

[DeeGee]

This morning my sister rings to say there’s a picture of cattle out in the centre of the village on the local Facebook page.

Its one of the worst feelings.

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So,all the family tufed out in two vehicles hunting the streets.Turns out it was a neighbours cow and calf where he had forgot to tie a gate properly.

Thank god they weren’t ours!

Got to be the one of the most unwanted calls you can get! Thankfully doesn’t apply here now as we don’t have cattle.
Generally our fences were good but there was always to odd time, usually one dark evening, when the call comes in that “there are some cows out on the road heading towards the village.......”

On of the worst I had ever had was one hot summer afternoon when I was just off to bale some hay and a neighbour rang to tell me that my Friesian bullocks had just pushed through into next door’s oilseed rape.........

 

[e3120]

Good result this time, being someone else's and only 2. Never get first relief as ours are the only stock around, but often activate worst case roundup plan after hearing 'herd of cows running down road' to find a single dopey bullock exploring a verge.

 

[Woolless]

My sheep have featured on Radio Borders before, 'Sheep oot in Norham!'.

 

[HappyShep76]

We had the worst call of all 3 weeks ago. The police called to say a cow had been hit by 2 cars on the A12. When we got there it was unfortunately one of ours. She had jumped over a brand new fence and straight into the traffic. The first car hit her and sent her into the oncoming car which also hit her. Both cars are written off but nobody was injured. The cow was stood looking battered and bloodied but amazingly she is ok. Time will tell if she is still in calf bless her. No clue why one cow out of a group of 80 would do that.

 

[dave6470]

Had a bullock breakout middle of June spent all summer asking neighbours if anyone had Seen it only got it back last week it was found 10 miles away when farmer was tb testing the vet told him it was my heard number