Quality time with the cows.

Dave from MN · Mar 16, 2009

Just spent 45 minutes with my cows. Been having a very stressful month. It's amazing what a few minutes out of the day with a couple very gentle cows can do for a persons tension. My nicest young heifer that I really want to keep as a cow even allowed me to rub her down and came back for more, and the youngest heifer "Daisy" is getting to be about as needy as a beagle with an itchy belly. Very happy about that. My Simmintal still acts like she wants to kill me, hate so send her to the sale bar, but may have to.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 16, 2009

Yep, just watching them can make ones tension go away. A coulpe times a week I make time to be with them. The barn cats are nice two. I got two calfs a red one and a light cream and white color one, just put them in tie stalls last month, the red one is nuts, but the other has really come around, I have to reach over her to fill the water bowl and she is fine. The red one learned how to use the water bowl, but I wont go near her.lol Shes always kicking at me when I scrape down behind her. The white one, I clean one side of her then she moves over so I can clean the other side of her. I wish I wasent on dial up so I could post pics..... j

Bill in Colo · Mar 16, 2009

we get a wild one once in a while and my cure is to put a Johnson chain halter on them with ten foot of log chain during mud season and the chain will freeze down at nite,usually after a couple weeks they calm down, mostly have done this with first calfers in the calving lot.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 16, 2009

hey dave know what you mean I've had a a very stressful 6 months at least, I just go out and watch the cows and calves play and it is very relaxing, I raise mostly scottish highlanders and some crossed bred cattle I had 1 old cow that was the meanest old bag you ever seen,was going to get rid of her 3 years ago but just couldn't do it ,now she is one of the nicest cows I have, dont know why but I'm glad I kept her ,she raises the best calf every year. have a good one!!

kyplowboy · Mar 16, 2009

Have you tried "range cubes" for the Simmintal? Don't know what purina puts in them things but I have yet to see a cow they wouldn't calm down. I can lead the whole herd out of a corn field with a 5 gallon bucket full of them things. The bull I have now will load into the trailer to go see my brother's cows with the help of a pocket full.

Get you a bag and start tossen a few to the old gal. $10 worth might make a pasture pet out of her yet.

Good luck.

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2009

Same here with the horses...... Fussing over them is good for both of us. One of the dogs had 2 pups and lost one, so the other one (week old) gets plenty of attention and couch time also. Expecting the first foal in the next couple of days so there will be plenty of attention sponges around.

Dave

Fawteen · Mar 17, 2009

I think that extends to critters in general.

For me, it's sheep. No room for cows, and cows ain't my favorite critter no-how (long story...)

It's lambing time and like the rest of ya, coming home from work and spending a few minutes tending the sheep and watching the lambs skippin' around chasin' chickens does more for my blood pressure than any medicine ever invented.

cj in wisconsin · Mar 17, 2009

Nothing quite like leaning on the fence with a good gal by your side and a cold beer in your hand watching the sun go down over your herd. Very therapeutic.

msb · Mar 17, 2009

I have 12 Holstein models(like TSC sells) around my computer screen. Very theraputic just to glance at them every so often. Want to get some green felt to set them on. One old rooster too. Grandsons love to play with them too.

rrlund · Mar 17, 2009

I spent the day with them yesterday too. Not all that relaxing. Sorted off a load of fats and hauled them to the stockyard. I'd put my bred heifers back in the feedlot last fall since I was feeding some not so great feed to the cows. Well,one of them has lost her tag,along with 5 or so others that aren't bred,so I'll have to wait til she's making bag to know which one she is. Then,I sorted off 20 from another pen into the finishing barn. Glad I don't have to work like that everyday.

thurlow · Mar 17, 2009

I'm with you.........owned (commercial beef) cattle for 47 years; can't say there was a lot of 'quality' time spent with them, 'though anyone would have to appreciate the antics of the babies. The last of 'em will have been gone 4 years on the 31st of May; AIN'T MISSED 'EM A SINGLE TIME. I gather that for some folks they're a hobby or a pet. I've been stepped on, butted, kicked, chased over corral fences, slobbered on, bled on, run over, etc. I've castrated, inoculated, nnalert, wormed, doctored, pulled calves in the rain/sleet at 20 degrees, chased 'em out of the highway or the neighbor's corn at 2:00 in the A.M., fought multi-flora roses, honeysuckle, briars, put 'em in the chute or head gate to let the calf nurse for 2 weeks at a time, buried 'em, fenced, patched, built corrals, barns, ponds, cut fallen trees off fences, fed when it was cold and wet; chased 'em when it was hot, etc. I've made some money and I've not made some money. AIN'T MISSED 'EM A SINGLE TIME.

rrlund · Mar 17, 2009

That's putting it about as well as I've ever seen it put! Them critters ain't even a little bit greatful for anything you do for'em.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2009

That is why everyone should have a Dog. When my cows charged at my German Shepherd she stood her ground and nipped them on the nose, after that they just put the head down and snorted,so give your Simmental a whack on the nose to assume authority.I can't pat any of mine but I don't sell them, they are there for a reason and Ferdinand knows it.

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