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How can you get a weak cow out of a pond?
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ccjersey
Posted 11/13/2012 08:35 (#2694538 - in reply to #2693863)
Subject: Re: How can you get a weak cow out of a pond?


Faunsdale, AL
Weak cows always go downhill..........literally........If there's a slope or a slope nearby where you leave them, they'll eventually wind up at the bottom of it! Hope you have her high and dry by now. I usually use a piece of 3/4" rope we keep around to lift silo unloader pieces to the top of our silos, but the chain works too. A lariat is usually too stretchy and hard to tie a knot that won't choke.

Pull from the head unless you can get both back feet or both front feet etc, don't want to do the "wish bone" maneuver with the cow! A bowline knot works best, make a loop so you can slip it over the head and behind the ears, but when you pull the knot should come under the jaw so you're pulling straight on her neck, not her throat. It won't press on anything important there and you have even pressure on the back of the skull, ears and neck when you pull.

You can lift one by their head if you have to, but watch that you don't snag on something when you're sliding her on the ground. Pretty easy to exceed the force you would be exerting by lifting her clear off the ground if her shoulder snags on something as she's sliding up out of a ditch or something.

Edited by ccjersey 11/13/2012 08:41
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