The cow thread

Gold Creek miniature white Galloway Stud is located outside the historic town of Braidwood in New South Wales - Australia.
When it comes small white cattle, these miniature cows are the most incredibly beautiful cow you are ever likely to see. The calves, however, are just too cute for words. They say 'a picture is worth a thousand words'. What do you think?






 
ronaldj said:
saw the thread about the calf coming to visit, I have a cow story and did not want to steal that thread.



Someone said, never had beef cows would make them all pets but could do dairy. all I can say is I did dairy for many years, yes, they all had names and were friends in a way, still they all got old and had to go to the slaughterhouse. Plus delivering calves is an adventure all its own.

the story I wanted to tell,

later in life I had cows and worked construction. one night at midnight I got a call from the state police. they wanted to know if I owned cows. “Yes.” “are you missing any?”

I went to the barn and sure enough the cows were out. The police said some cows ere down the road about half a mile scaring some people. (the new neighbors who moved in were from the city, nuff said)

I went down and got them back in the barnyard, fixed the fence and life went one.

about seven years later, again at midnight the phone rang, it was the state police. “are you missing any cows?”

Now by this time I had sold them all, “ I don’t own any cows anymore.” they never called again.

I love to see cows out in a pasture on a sunny afternoon, and I enjoy them for about the time it takes to drive by. again nuff said.

I have a better goat story I should tell.
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Assume you gave those naughty cows a good talking to.
 

Central Queensland cattle handler, 4, knows his way around Texas longhorns​

Leading a half-tonne cow with giant horns around a paddock is all in a day's work for four-year-old Jace Lamb.
"I like brushing her and washing her," he said.

Jace, and his siblings, Johannah, 7, Jack, 11, and John, 14, are fourth-generation cattle handlers on a 6,475-hectare property between Banana and Theodore in central Queensland.

"My grandfather spent the last few years of his life here with us," dad Dan Lamb said.

"He got an immense amount of enjoyment sitting on the verandah and watching the three generations below him working together and doing his life's work, continuing it."

Ever since Jace learnt to walk, he has had no trouble putting bulls and heifers in their place.
"Our youngest, who is now four, started showing longhorns when he was just two," Ms Lamb said.
"He particularly enjoys it."
All four children have their own "sweet-natured", horned animals to break in, take care of and lead.

"We know their [the longhorns'] personalities so much that we just trust them," Ms Lamb said.
"I think having grown up with the horns, they're [the kids] aware of how to move their body around them."
Before and after school, which they do through distance education, the kids work with their animals.
"They seem to get a lot of pleasure out of seeing the cows go from something that's never had a hand on them, to something that just wants to be with them," Ms Lamb said.
 
Murrmurr said:
I basically grew up on a dairy farm, from age 5 to 15. It was my grampa's farm. The chores were endless but I mostly loved it. The "lead cows" had names; Bessy, Bossy, Betty, and Bonnie. There was always anywhere from 150 to 350 head of cattle, so you couldn't name all of them. Anyway, Bessy used to let me ride her when I was small. She'd take me all through the pasture, slow and easy, and when I talked to her she mooed back at me. When she'd had enough of me sitting on her back she'd head for the B barn, and when she stopped and mooed I knew it was time to dismount.

Bessy won an award one year for biggest yield of consistently high quality milk. Good ol' Girl!
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that experience is good enough to go in any film!!
 

Novice cattle drovers raising money for bush services in Queensland's Burnett region​

Part of an old stock route has come to life as a mob of drovers retrace a 70 kilometre stretch in Queensland's Burnett region.
Instead of bringing cattle to sale, the Eidsvold Cattle Drive raises money for lifesaving services in the bush.
 
A story from 2015
There’s a case to be made for adding the whole “pig becomes mates with some other random species, wins humans over” storyline to the pantheon of go-to Aussie legends. Seriously. There is absolutely nothing on the planet that satisfies us like animal odd-couples do.

Obviously Babe started it all, but George Miller’s magnum opus now has an IRL counterpart in Crackles. The hog from whereabouts unknown is also known as Ham, or, yes, just Pig, and he wandered into Mandurah (south of Perth, WA) resident Ray Grantham’s paddock eight months ago. Fortunately for the rest of the nation, a video of his red-hot escapades has just dropped.
In those eight months, Crackles became buds with Grantham’s other livestock. He said after one of his cows lost its calf, she even took Crackles on as her own.
“It’s unbelievable; I’ve never seen anything like it… I’ve told other farmers and they’re amazed,” Grantham said. And that’s the best part, honestly: any haphazard, random combination of animals inexplicably getting along is just the shit.
That’s all well and good of course, but his daughter managed to describe her pa’s porky pal as “pretty ugly.”
DON’T LISTEN TO HER, CRACKLES. WE STILL LOVE YOU.

 
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Cow with head stuck in tree freed by firefighters​


A cow which had its head stuck in a tree has been rescued by teams of firefighters.
The unlucky animal was found trapped in a gap in the tree trunk on a farm near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, earlier.
A fire crew from Wallingford and a specialist animal rescue team from Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to the scene.
They said the cow was released from its predicament swiftly and did not suffer any injury.
 
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