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The Palouse North Idaho | Sorry to hear about your neighbor. In the past few years we've had a couple of people killed, one by a cow and one by a bull. A 200 pound man hasn't got a chance with a PO'd cow at 1300 lbs, let alone a one ton bull!
Once those cows figure out they can wool you around with a threatened charge they'll do it every time you go to mark a calf and maybe the next time it won't be a threat. Get rid of them. It's cheaper that going to the hospital to get put back together or having your family get you a pine box.
We had a real nice heifer that needed a light pull to calve and she immediately attacked the calf. I just put the calf in an adjacent pen where the cow could see it and in a few hours the calve was in the heifers pen and sucking. I figured it was a "one off"!
Next year same cow has a calf and does the same thing. My wife was with me and she gets between the cow and the calf. I cringed and puller her away. No way a 120 pound woman will win with an enraged 1300 pound cow! We kept them a part and in a few hours that cow turned into the best mother on place and raised that calf just like the previous year. That cow went down the road that fall because I couldn't mid-wife that girl every Spring.
The moral of this story is no matter what, cows with a bad disposition need to be culled just like they were bad performers, won't rebreed, etc. I don't care if she e weans a 1000 pound calf on a pitchfork full of hay, she goes. | |
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Cattle accident this morning
