I got up late today. My neighbour's cows kept me up all night.

"As the resident expert on cows" I have a few suggestions for you!

The first is cattle can become unsettled into the night, especially when moved on to grass for the first time in spring, (it is spring isn't it?!).

Usually they settle down again in a day or two, and "you've got to remember a cow had four stomachs", in order to digest fibre rich foods, and tummy upstets of all kinds are possible.

I'd agree about a lot of noise coming from female cattle, when young calves, a few weeks old maybe, have just been removed from them, though in this case the OP suggests its unlikely to be this cause.

I can stand quite a bit of loud noise, especially from my own cattle, when I had some, and you always feel differently about your own don't you, (its like your own children making a racket often doesn't affect you as much). However, all should settle down fairly quickly I believe, as I once had to try to persuade a near neighbour when I housed a sow next to her garden, and her dog barked at it all night!

Luckily the lady and her dog, came to love their porcine companion in the field alongside their property. :) .
 

grahamg said:
"As the resident expert on cows" I have a few suggestions for you!

The first is cattle can become unsettled into the night, especially when moved on to grass for the first time in spring, (it is spring isn't it?!).

Usually they settle down again in a day or two, and "you've got to remember a cow had four stomachs", in order to digest fibre rich foods, and tummy upstets of all kinds are possible.

I'd agree about a lot of noise coming from female cattle, when young calves, a few weeks old maybe, have just been removed from them, though in this case the OP suggests its unlikely to be this cause.

I can stand quite a bit of loud noise, especially from my own cattle, when I had some, and you always feel differently about your own don't you, (its like your own children making a racket often doesn't affect you as much). However, all should settle down fairly quickly I believe, as I once had to try to persuade a near neighbour when I housed a sow next to her garden, and her dog barked at it all night!

Luckily the lady and her dog, came to love their porcine companion in the field alongside their property. :) .
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You do have a point regarding my lack of emotional attachment to those cows. Were they mine, their sounds might make smile in my sleep with the pleasure of ownership. From my perspective, it's been imposed (albeit a minor imposition at best.)

Regarding having been separated from their calves...my thought was that there are likely no calves in the herd for the mothers to worry over being predated upon. Do you know how soon after calving the mothers might be sold? Is it customary that they give birth, nurse for a month and are then sold, with their calves going elsewhere? If so, it's possible that's the case with these cows...not that I can do anything about it. But now I'm curious. Or is this process across the pond still influenced by BSE concerns?
 
In The Sticks said:
You do have a point regarding my lack of emotional attachment to those cows. Were they mine, their sounds might make smile in my sleep with the pleasure of ownership. From my perspective, it's been imposed (albeit a minor imposition at best.)

Regarding having been separated from their calves...my thought was that there are likely no calves in the herd for the mothers to worry over being predated upon. Do you know how soon after calving the mothers might be sold? Is it customary that they give birth, nurse for a month and are then sold, with their calves going elsewhere? If so, it's possible that's the case with these cows...not that I can do anything about it. But now I'm curious. Or is this process across the pond still influenced by BSE concerns?
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In dairy cattle it is usually the calves only being sold, when about two or three weeks old, but it wouldn't explain why so many cattle were making a lot of noise at once, they can't all have been weaned at one time I'd have thought, (whilst the moving them on to fresh pasture/grass would do, following a winter on dry feed). Usually beef cattle are due to calve at this time of year, and last years calf removed a month or two ago, (having said that some herds do leave them altogether, but most don't).

The BSE nightmare is a distant memory now thank the Lord, but there are some minor residual effects, such as over thirty month old cattle being a bit less valuable, (this was once a cut off period I believe, beyond which the meat couldn't be sold). The rules concerning the removal of spinal chord tissues from the food chain during the preparation of the meat remain in place too I believe.

"You'll now miss all the racket when they stop", (I've a hunch anyway this might happen?). It shouldn't take long though, whatever the cause. 🤠. .
 

norma1111 said:
Maybe the cows were a little confused? They new to the person and that land, maybe it'll just take time for them to adjust? I always find a good pair of ear plugs go a long way!
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Yeh, I keep some foam earplugs around. They are a legacy from when I first moved here and would have to travel back up to the Washington DC area for business and stay the night. I'm in the middle of nowhere with no one nearby. It rapidly became torture to return to that mess.
 
grahamg said:
In dairy cattle it is usually the calves only being sold, when about two or three weeks old, but it wouldn't explain why so many cattle were making a lot of noise at once, they can't all have been weaned at one time I'd have thought, (whilst the moving them on to fresh pasture/grass would do, following a winter on dry feed). Usually beef cattle are due to calve at this time of year, and last years calf removed a month or two ago, (having said that some herds do leave them altogether, but most don't).

The BSE nightmare is a distant memory now thank the Lord, but there are some minor residual effects, such as over thirty month old cattle being a bit less valuable, (this was once a cut off period I believe, beyond which the meat couldn't be sold). The rules concerning the removal of spinal chord tissues from the food chain during the preparation of the meat remain in place too I believe.

"You'll now miss all the racket when they stop", (I've a hunch anyway this might happen?). It shouldn't take long though, whatever the cause. 🤠. .
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I've not deciphered our meat processing regs here. I'm told that there are 5 USDA (US Dept of Agriculture) government-approved meat processing plants in my state (woefully inadequate throughput requiring appointments to be scheduled 6-8 months ahead of time), yet when I started reading more about this industry (inspired by anticipated COVID-caused meat shortages), I found a freshly-updated USDA list of facilities licensed to take animals for "Immediate Slaughter." There are zero in my state. Having specific facilities for "Immediate Slaughter" implies some sort of quarantine period observed by the other facility types. Once the current madness blows over, I'll pop across the street and ask the farm owner I know to educate me on it.

You know, I might miss the moos, and I might not. They're hardly part of the native fauna. I used to have fox yapping outside my bedroom window at 4AM when I first arrived here, and they became a forgotten memory...although I do sometimes miss them. I know they're still in the area, they just no longer serenade me. I can find cows anywhere should I need a fix.
 
Sticks, all I can offer is my sympathy as I have personally listened to that same racket myself. At the camp up north when the calves were taken the adult herd of approx 50 let their displeasure be known.

They knew their babies were about to be turned into veal.
 
Dear friends, let me enlighten you all. At certain times of the year, cows like to have a get together and sing. I know this 'cause I've known a few cows ;), and one of the favourite songs cow choirs like to harmonize to is..............wait for it....

Cowrolina Moo...n 😊
 
Ferocious said:
Dear friends, let me enlighten you all. At certain times of the year, cows like to have a get together and sing. I know this 'cause I've known a few cows ;), and one of the favourite songs cow choirs like to harmonize to is..............wait for it....

Cowrolina Moo...n 😊
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The cows here in Florida are partial to "Moooon over Miami"

Back in the 1940's, the #1 hit on the Cow Hit Parade was "In the Moooood"
 
In The Sticks, It's obvious what is happening. It's a case of cows gone wrong. Farmers have been coping with this menace for years. It starts off with cows coming home late for milking, then soon it's wild cow parties., like the one next door to you. Some crushed souls even wind up in cow stripper clubs. it's a shame, some cows come from the finest , most repected dairies in the nation, only to wind up as hamburger.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
In The Sticks, It's obvious what is happening. It's a case of cows gone wrong. Farmers have been coping with this menace for years. It starts off with cows coming home late for milking, then soon it's wild cow parties., like the one next door to you. Some crushed souls even wind up in cow stripper clubs. it's a shame, some cows come from the finest , most repected dairies in the nation, only to wind up as hamburger.
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or to star in a t.v. commercial
 
fuzzybuddy said:
In The Sticks, It's obvious what is happening. It's a case of cows gone wrong. Farmers have been coping with this menace for years. It starts off with cows coming home late for milking, then soon it's wild cow parties., like the one next door to you. Some crushed souls even wind up in cow stripper clubs. it's a shame, some cows come from the finest , most repected dairies in the nation, only to wind up as hamburger.
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