Do cattle get Spring Fever

[SteveO]

So i am out in one of my other fields and I see the cattle running across the field flat out then turn and run back. One is 7 months preg one steer 11months and young heifer 12 months or so. Nothing in site the scare them. I was out moving the fence last week the the young heifer came running for no reason.
So spring fever or hormones or both or??
Steve

[linn]

Our cattle sometimes act up when a change in the weather is coming.

[Callieslamb]

I think they just get so happy they just have to run and do a jig at the same time. Then the sheep catch on and they go pell mell around the barn and back. Then it spreads to the chickens an they go to squawking....it's some of my favorite times on the farm.

[gone-a-milkin]

Once in awhile all the dairy cows will decide to RUN! up from the pasture bucking and snorting, tossing their heads and kicking up heels...
even the gimpy old ladies who act like they can barely walk most days.

Sometimes it is a sudden change in barometric pressure, but othertimes I couldn't guess.
I just call that 'feeling fresh' and hope that all the gates are shut tight.
Silly critters.

[Tom in TN]

I have a small herd of black Angus cattle (40 head). I walk among them every day putting feed into the feed troughs, and in the winter, putting out small square bales of hay. I look them over daily checking for impending calving, checking out their body conditioning, and generally just looking over their general condition.

Some days they're as docile as lambs, and other days they are as feisty as a pup. I love their mood changes and different activities, especially the calves - they just lift my spirits.

I have no idea what the difference is from day to day, but they act like different herds from time to time.

I love my cows.

Tom in TN

[gone-a-milkin]

My neighbors have a set of twin lambs who were born on xmas eve.
We all seem to do evening chores at the same time and those 2 little dingalings just tear around and around while their mama gets her supper.
It takes me twice as long to feed out because I have to stop and stare and giggle at their antics eevery night.
Its a lambpede!! Defy gravity! chase chickens! jump straight up and spin in midair! land facing the other direction! Nearly run into a tree!
Cry Mama!Mama!, cry Where's my twin?! Another lap around the barn!
I stand out there grinning like a fool for half an hour. Cheap entertainment: OP lambs.
Babies will lift your spirits right up, for sure!

Those 2 are keeping me going until calving starts in a couple more weeks.

[Valmai]

Some times the sheer joy of being alive must be expressed.

[allenslabs]

Baby goats are good entertainment too especially if you have an overturned water trough for them to jump on and the occasional downed tree and rock pile are good too. LOL!

[birdman1]

yes they sometimes just take a spell of running & kicking but cattle do get rambling fever in the spring as things start greening up and a winter of dry hay they tend to try the fences

[simka2]

I noticed this as well. Today the cows were just wild! They got close to the house and tore up all the markers the surveyor had put out for a new road. One calf bolted through a barbed wire fence into the horse pasture, and the cows were headbutting each other a lot.

It was weird!