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02/27/12, 11:19 AM
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trying to build a shed with my cow helping
Really, I mean really? does everyone else get harrassed by their young calves whilst trying to build in the pasture? My little heifer Annabell added atleast two hours to the work I was doing framing out a new shed buy pulling at my cloths and boots, stealing equipment, knocking down boards and getting in the way of the sledge hammer and drill...I finally hung a plastic bag on a fence to amuse her with an emplty soda can with rock in it for her to bang about and rattle to get her out of my hair for a while..did I mention she stole a half eaten snicker bar out of my pocket and ran off with it, heavens knows what THAT will do to her digestive system...then she waits until the gate was open and I was driving the trailer through to duck around the small gap and race merrily around the property, much to my amusement but my daughters aggrevation as she was handling the gate and had a migrain...
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02/27/12, 11:31 AM
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Try doing the same job with a horse instead of a cow. I spent as much time chasing the horse to get my tools back as I did building.
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02/27/12, 11:35 AM
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A friend of mine was working on his bushhog when his PET COW walked up behind him and butted him onto the bushhog..because it was time for her ears to be scratched...
.I try to make them know 3 foot is the space i got to them they do not come to me
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02/27/12, 12:21 PM
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I use a wheel barrow to carry my tools around and my calves used to love to tip it over. THey'd also step on the end of a tarp while I was trying to pull it - and then try to look as if they didn't know what was going on. Their are a nuisance while you are trying to get work done. Otherwise, they are good companions when you're playing.
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02/29/12, 08:20 AM
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It was nice to have company, but she could have atleast held the drill or one end of the board up? AB gets a good ear tweek if she does any butting or pushing, and if that doesn't work a pretty good nose slap, so she has learned to be good. She is going to be a milk cow, hand milked, so she ties, brushes, lets me handle her udder, not sure the three foot rule would work for me on her 
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02/29/12, 08:51 AM
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AB gets a good ear tweek if she does any butting or pushing, and if that doesn't work a pretty good nose slap, so she has learned to be good.
that is the 3 foot rule,,,,I can go to them and pet them or what ever I want...BUT THEY can not come to me rubbing on me or licking my clothes..
.sometimes it scares the $%& out of me they can walk up to 3 foot with out making a sound...till you hear them lick there lips
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02/29/12, 01:22 PM
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sorry farmgirl6, you are not allowed to be the only member to the club, it is very hard to get anything done when you have Jerseys around. > Thanks Marc
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02/29/12, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by myersfarm
AB gets a good ear tweek if she does any butting or pushing, and if that doesn't work a pretty good nose slap, so she has learned to be good.
that is the 3 foot rule,,,,I can go to them and pet them or what ever I want...BUT THEY can not come to me rubbing on me or licking my clothes..
.sometimes it scares the $%& out of me they can walk up to 3 foot with out making a sound...till you hear them lick there lips
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that is a very good idea, it is amazing how stealthy they are!
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02/29/12, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by springvalley
sorry farmgirl6, you are not allowed to be the only member to the club, it is very hard to get anything done when you have Jerseys around. > Thanks Marc
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Isn't that the truth, I don't know if other breeds are like that, I have only had Jerseys, but good grief they are cheerfully nosey and just want to be in the middle of everything, like a bloody cat! if she is going to hang around, she should at least make herself helpful and hold the drill or one side of the board
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02/29/12, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by pancho
Try doing the same job with a horse instead of a cow. I spent as much time chasing the horse to get my tools back as I did building.
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Or Goats 
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02/29/12, 03:49 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pancho
Try doing the same job with a horse instead of a cow. I spent as much time chasing the horse to get my tools back as I did building.
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Funny, I bet if my mini had been out he would have been just as bad!!
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03/01/12, 08:13 PM
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Yep, I've found even those not real gentle can't resist messing with stuff. They just have to check out anything new.
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03/06/12, 12:51 AM
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When I'm in her pasture to do something for a short time, I have had to just tie my cow to a post for the duration.
The loafing shed I built for her was built onto 4x6x13' posts for skids and constructed outside her pasture and drug in with the truck, so that kept her out of our hair.
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03/06/12, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by pancho
Try doing the same job with a horse instead of a cow. I spent as much time chasing the horse to get my tools back as I did building.
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My mare used to steal my ex-husband's beer! 
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03/06/12, 09:08 AM
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My mare used to steal my ex-husband's beer! |
Now that is serious stuff.
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03/06/12, 09:13 AM
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Our jersey girl did that too when we were building our shed. We had to have one person just to keep the cow out of everything! We were out there one night trying to get done and had the lead light strung up to see.. she decided to walk right through the middle of the shed, pulled out the lead light and plunged us all into darkness.
It wasn't so funny at the time.. it's funny now though 
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03/07/12, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by WildernesFamily
Our jersey girl did that too when we were building our shed. We had to have one person just to keep the cow out of everything! We were out there one night trying to get done and had the lead light strung up to see.. she decided to walk right through the middle of the shed, pulled out the lead light and plunged us all into darkness.
It wasn't so funny at the time.. it's funny now though |
I swear they know exactly what they are doing, too!
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