Wild ILL cow

[Jd68]

Friend got a cow at summer grazing that isn’t doing and needs attention normally quite but now can’t get near her, is it possible to tranquilize cows so can check her ,don’t think can get near with a tractor cow catcher. North lincs area if anybody can help thanks

 

[Werzle]

Put some quiet cows with her to help coax her in a pen OR run the steam out if her with a quad until she surrenders.

 

[Thick Farmer]

I bought a Medidart for those type of things.
If that doesn’t work I use the 12 bore.

 

[Jd68]

That’s the problem werzle won’t mix with the other cows even though been with them all her life.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I bought a Medidart for those type of things.
If that doesn’t work I use the 12 bore.

Well the 12 bore will certainly quieten her down...

 

[M-J-G]

Can't she be worked with a bike (or 2)?

 

[Jd68]

Can't she be worked with a bike (or 2)?

Nope joyriders on quads caused the problem

 

[M-J-G]

Nope joyriders on quads caused the problem

In what way?

 

[milkloss]

Had one like this a couple of years ago. Suddenly went absolutely wild out in the field, wouldn't mix, couldn't even go in the field with the truck. It got a .308 through its skull.

 

[Agrivator]

The secret is to ask your vet to visit, to see if he or she is able to get close enough to tranquilize her.

I did that with a bull that had gone a bit mad. But the vet, with a self-preservation outlook, decided to give me a small tube of horse tranquilizing paste instead, to be mixed with some feed in a bucket. The feed was left near enough for him to consume (the bull, not the vet). It worked miraculously, so that we were able to get him into a trailer, and penned securely.

But the instructions indicated that he could never enter the food chain. So we made him into Kebabs and ''Wey I agyu'' burgers, and sold them from a stall in Newcastle on a single Saturday night. It calmed the local yobs down so much, even the women, that we were given free tickets to the Northumbrian Police Ball.

 

[Paul E]

We had a quiet cow off colour once and a bit "iffy".
Didn't think she was all that bad so left her until morning.
In the morning she was dead.

 

[M-J-G]

We had a quiet cow off colour once and a bit "iffy".
Didn't think she was all that bad so left her until morning.
In the morning she was dead.

That's as quiet as you can get!

 

[Yale]

That's as quiet as you can get!

And generally the safest outcome!

 

[Yale]

Neighbour made a feed trailer with self locking yokes fitted to catch some wild cattle out.

May not help if they are wary.

 

[Bill the Bass]

Neighbour made a feed trailer with self locking yokes fitted to catch some wild cattle out.

May not help if they are wary.

Or the trailer is not of sufficient ballast...

 

[Yale]

Or the trailer is not of sufficient ballast...

Suppose you can drop a weight block in it .

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I fear her temperament is a symptom and suspect she isn't doing due to a degenerative condition such as a brain tumour.
It never ceases to amaze me how virtually all animals seem to be completely relaxed about quad bikes but if that was the cause then it should be short lived.
I'd probably leave her be if I could and maybe try to give her a bit of feed everyday for her health and to quieten.

 

[M-J-G]

I fear her temperament is a symptom and suspect she isn't doing due to a degenerative condition such as a brain tumour.
It never ceases to amaze me how virtually all animals seem to be completely relaxed about quad bikes but if that was the cause then it should be short lived.
I'd probably leave her be if I could and maybe try to give her a bit of feed everyday for her health and to quieten.

If they know they can be outrun it generally transforms them, like sheep with a dog.

 

[som farmer]

had some hfrs in an orchard, high wind one night, few apples down, owner wanting them out, like yesterday, all out bar 1, so let a couple back in, to quieten her down, owner going mental, scared they would eat his apples (late aug, cider apples usually oct) so, 4 tractors and trailors, nice big funnel, nope, I think the problem was, as she ran, people sort of jumped in vision, then out, as she ran past the trees. Owner really going mental, if I hadn't known him well, I would have decked him, bear in mind, this was 5 weeks, before 'out' day, on the agreement So, he went off to find someone to shoot it, threatening legal action, (99.9 % of apples still on trees). Anyway, rung the vets, someone from Cricket st Thomas, wildlife park, came with a tranquiliser gun, darted it, ran, jumped a proper sheep fence, ditch, and hedge, into neighbours milking cows, he delivered it back the next morning, quiet as a lamb, and the dart. Refused the keep after that !!!!