update: stupid cows

Donald Lehman · Aug 22, 2014

I suggest you put your coffeee down guys. Jeff has had a dawgone heifer who has been crawling through the fence for several nights and getting in my garden. She's got the wires all twisted and stretched, of course. So yesterday Jeff untwisted the wires a re-stretched eveyrthing. Last night the gate got left open all night (the gate is right beside the water tank) and not a single critter got out all night. You just gotta shake your head and laugh.

rrlund · Aug 22, 2014

They probably thought it was some kind of a trap.

joninmo · Aug 22, 2014

Had one that always got out and could not figure out how she did it. Finally one morning I saw her jumping the fence(5 feet tall). Off to market.

Allan in NE · Aug 22, 2014

Oh heck,

One of my bulls has spent the last month over at the neighbor's pasture. Better lookin' cows ya know. :>)

Allan

JRSutton · Aug 22, 2014

my goats pushed down a large section of fence, right aside of the gate.

I have a larger perimeter fence, so it doesn't much matter.

But all the goats will walk right through that big opening... all but Gus.

He just stands there at the gate screeching like a banshee when he gets left behind.

The noise gets so out of control I have to go out and open the gate for him.

Frustrating thing is - when I go out to open the gate for him - all the other goats come running back onto his side, so if I let him through - he'll be on the wrong side again!

(I can't leave it open - the horses would go through - there's a high electric wire left where the fence was that is well above the goats heads.)

FBH44 · Aug 22, 2014

Pop buoght 5 heifers many years ago, named them Molly, Betsy, Dolly, Susie, and D**n-You. You can tell why. She loved to get out on the highway and stop traffic and visit with everybody.

Dave H (MI) · Aug 22, 2014

That's funnier than today's funny!

El Toro · Aug 22, 2014

We had a young Guernsey heifer to get out into our neighbor's beef cattle. She had a black angus calf. Hal

Donald Lehman · Aug 22, 2014

I had a neighbor when I was a kid who sent any fence jumpers or fence runners to the sale imediately. My father thought he was a fool. But my teenaged brain seemed to pick up on the fact that the neighbor was usually sleeping soundly at night while we seemed to be spending a fair amount of time stumbling around in dew soaked shoulder high corn chasing cows. (chuckle)

Anonymous-0 · Aug 22, 2014

I had a similar cow that would crawl under the woven wire which was a hog tight pasture with wire on ground. Get her in and fix the spot and next day she would get out again. I never did see a cow do that before or since. I've seen them reach under, but never crawl through. Only took a few days and she got a free ride to the sale barn.

Grampy · Aug 22, 2014

That is a funny one Donald. Dang heifers, you couldn't find a teacup full of brains in a boxcar load !!

Dick2 · Aug 22, 2014

We had a heifer that kept getting out through a barb wire fence. Couldn't figure out how she was doing that until one day we saw her take a run at the fence, then at the last second she folded her legs under her and dropped down low enough to slide under the wire.

Have never seen an animal do that before or since. Don't know how she learned that.

bison · Aug 22, 2014

I had a cow that was always in the hay yard,only way for her to get in was trough 4 strand electric.
I strung 3 more strands in between and one more on top and stretched all of them tight as a piano wire. Strands were about 6" appart. Then i stayed around and to watch what she would do.
Well by gosh that cow must like electric shocks.
After a while she walked up to the fence and pushed her nose trough, she had to strain hard to get her head then the shoulders the front legs the belly but she kept at it til she was trough, all the while twitching in time with the electr pulses.
That cow just didn't give a damm.

PJH · Aug 22, 2014

One of the local farmers has an answering machine, and the message begins with, "Yes, we know that the cows are out. . ."

Their cattle are seldom out, but he sees the humor in what can be an aggravating situation.

Gchase24 · Aug 22, 2014

In the 50"s and 60"s in my ealy years I can remember an old cajun that that would gather all the neibors boys to help work his cattle,bale hay work around his farm. He had a heifer that kept getting out .He had her wearing three 2x4"s nailed in a triangle around her neck to prevent her from putting her head through the barbed wire.Seemed to work but I still laugh about it.

NEBeef · Aug 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 14:20:35 08/22/14) Had one that always got out and could not figure out how she did it. Finally one morning I saw her jumping the fence(5 feet tall). Off to market.

Ditto. 1400 pound cow, standing jump over a 4' gate hung 6" off the ground. No one would believe it if they didn't see it...

donjr · Aug 22, 2014

My uncle, who used to milk about 110 Holsteins, had one heifer that had a habit of getting through any electric fence he had, especially one spot about 30' from the fence charger. One day, he took a single strand of wire and hooked it to the hot side of the electric about ten feet outside the regular fence. She went through the normal fence and hit the AC wire. It knocked her on her butt, but she never tested the fence again.....

JerryS · Aug 22, 2014

In my youth it was common to see a cow with some sort of homemade yoke around her neck. I think there was actually some sort of steel "store-bought" version available as well.

flying belgian · Aug 22, 2014

Wife had a great uncle whose cows kept getting out in the neighbors field. He solved the problem by buying the neighbors field. True story.

Mike (WA) · Aug 22, 2014

Yep, Dad did the same thing- soon as one got "breachy", off she went. His idea was that he could buy another for about the same money as he got for the troublemaker, and not have to put up with the foolishness. And once they start, they'll never stop.

Brian G. NY · Aug 22, 2014

Jerry, I remember them too!
' course that was back in the 40s and 50s!!
The thing in the center.
My wife's granddad made them out of wood.
Some other interesting old farm stuff here too!

JimB2 · Aug 22, 2014

Hi, last fall my wife and I were being a tourist on Elk Island, UT where we visited a ranch. The ranch had a collection of old farm tools all displayed on a work tabled in a shed. There was another couple visiting at the same time with a teenage daughter and son. There were tools like the ones in the upper right of your picture, teenage daughter picks up the clamps and asks her mother what is this used for, mom doesn't know, she them asked dad, he doesn't know, mom turns to me and says, you seem to know about farming, do you know what this tool is used for? I replied, yes, they are used to make a bull into a steer. Daughter, goes UCH and drops them on the table.

keh · Aug 22, 2014

Yokes. I have made them, on my father's directions, by finding a forked limb that fit across the cows neck, different sizes for different cows. Drove a couple of nails through the forks to catch the fence wire. The sharp side was out to keep the cow from snagging the wire on it. Baler twine was tied across the top so that hopefully when it wore through and the yoke fell off, the calf would be out of the habit of going through fences. Worked pretty good, but we sold the calf fairly quickly. After one or two get outs I sell the animal now.

KEH

PJH · Aug 22, 2014

I had a cow that could not be contained. I finally shipped her to Fruitland, Missouri. When the check came in the mail, there was a note with it that said, "Buckshot in rump!"

Paul from MI · Aug 22, 2014

The only thing dumber than a cow is an equally dumb sheep. Don't ask me how I know.

T in NE · Aug 22, 2014

Sounds like a solaire. They'd jump a head-high gate standing still, or so I've been told.

Gambles · Aug 22, 2014

I grew up on a Holstein dairy farm (we probably had 70 cows, tops) and along with each cow having an ear tag, my mom had a name for each cow. For the one super jumper that we had, mom had named her "Trouble". If there was one cow that was through the fence it was "Trouble", or if the whole herd was out, chances are it was "Trouble" who had led them out. When "Trouble" had her first calf, it was immediately clear that this calf was twice the trouble of "Trouble". Both "Trouble" and her calf were taken to market on the same truck.
That was probably one of the happier days that mom enjoyed.

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