Since I heard so many ways of calling cows

It really doesn't matter what you call them as long as you don't call them late for dinner.

Seriously though, it really doesn't matter what you call them as long as you're consistent.

For driving we use 'hugh-hugh' which in pig means 'move along beware'.

For calling to food we call 'HEEeeerrrre PIIiiig Pig pig!' which carries well.

Once trained they're very good about it and they learn from the other pigs because whom ever doesn't come is thus late for dinner and in a pig's book that is the end of the world as they know it.

Cheers,

-Walter Jeffries
Sugar Mountain Farm
Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids
in the mountains of Vermont
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/

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That's what my family called when I was a child.

A few years ago, when our neighbor across the road had milking cows, his cows got loose! They were headed South at a good rate as I sent my DH to go find the neighbor up the road! I didn't know how long it would take so I called "come boss, come boss" from my porch and they turned on a dime and headed for the neighbors barn!

The neighbor and DH secured the fence and everything was fine!

Soooooeeeeee!!! Pig pig pig pig Soooooeeeeeee! pig pig pig pig Sooooeeeee!! pig pig pig pig

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Around here a horn blowing or a moving tractor brings the cattle running. Otherwise to get them to follow, you just need to carry an empty pail.

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A wise person speaks when they have something to say but a fool speaks just to say something

same here
but I call my cows up by saying "come on come on"

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Ya know, Bill, you mentioned cows and not hogs in the thread title, then you mentioned cows again in the last line of your initial post. It's probably not too surprising if people talk about cows.

Rancher and DD call the cows by mooing - I just yell 'ladies!" Of course, they never pay attention to me. Pigs are called 'piggies!! Pig! pig!". The cats come no matter who is calling what!

Moldy

I cannot whistle, so anything i call is "kitty kitty kitty" EVERYTHING comes running to that. My animals and all the rest in the neighborhood!

Yankee

'Come boooooss come booooooss, come boss' is how e always call the cows.

Frankly sice I feed them with the little loader tractor a lot, driving that tractor within earshot or pounding a 5 gallon bucket on the feeder is a lot more effective, they come running.

When I put them in at night from rotational grazing, I clap my hands a few times as I walk after them. In a few days, I just have to walk up and clap my hands, over 1/2 are walking to the gate before I get there.

Paul

I'd assume this thread, since you talked about cows in the title and in your message a lot? Never saw any other thread anyhow.

Paul

For the goats and our one cow - 'dinner time'! No one ever hesitated to come for that call.

For the pigs - I'd just make a pig snort sound and they'd be at their feed bowl, waiting.
If it was below 20 degrees I might need to snort two or three times to get them out of their warm, deeply bedded calf hut. (our pigs were in a medium size pen, not far to travel to their feeder).

Good grief! I thought you typed "mooning" for a minute there!

Grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, we did :

Coop, coop, coop for cows. COME on then, COME on then for everything else. Occasionally we get sheep stampeding when we are calling the chickens.No pigs, sorry!

That's what I call to my dear wife when we're late for church, I'm in the car waiting, and she's dawdling.

Here,pig,pig,pig,pig,......Here,pig,pig,pig,pig... .piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggg,...Hoooo-weeeee,Hoooo-weeeee. The Hoooo-weeee was used early in the morning like a yodel in the community. First man wake up in the community would go out on his porch and sorta holler like a yodel, and the next one to hear to send it down the way. Poor folks alarm. The bell was only used at dinner time.....any other time the farm bell rang it was trouble.

We just have the two so i call them by name. They come when called...usually right away because when i call it almost always means food or scratches and treats.

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Seriously, I am COMPLETELY dressed!

Just keep moving...just keep moving!

We use "come boss" and it's a real drawn out "come baaaaas".

Hearing me little boys yell this just cracks me up and makes me smile. I once heard a Bison farmer use this to call in the big fella from over a hundred yards away and it worked.

That's what my grandfather and uncle would call.

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My DH grew up in Appalachia, and they use "skave, skave" to call the cows. I just use "woo, cow." Tapping the feed bucket doesn't hurt either.

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