I was just another off-duty surveyor heading to the hardware store early Saturday morning but much like an off-duty cop, I was still armed with some of the necessities of the trade.?ÿ Just outside of town, there was a mob of 1,000 pound steers that had just pushed their way through a formerly beautiful 4 board black fence and the leader had 3 feet outside the fence already.?ÿ 3 seconds later would have been too late but I shooed them back in and they glared at me while I tried to put the broken boards back up with little success.?ÿ Then I thought of the rolls of orange flagging in my truck so about a roll and a half later, the fence was festive and functional until the mob got restless again.?ÿ About the time I finished, the guy that owned them pulled up and he went to get a more permanent solution but flagging had saved the day.?ÿ I am sorry that I failed to get a picture.
Ingenious solution, but I hope there was no way they could eat any of the flagging, as we have heard of it killing animals by clogging the digestive plumbing.
How on earth do you "shoo" a mob of 1,000 pound steers considering one of 'em weighs 5 times what you do? ?????ÿ
How on earth do you "shoo" a mob of 1,000 pound steers considering one of 'em weighs 5 times what you do? ?????ÿ
?ÿ
he forgot the "t" at the end of that shoo ????ÿ
?ÿ
They will flinch when you head straight towards them amd make a loud noise.?ÿ That is not common in nature.
I am a beleiver that after the first time you get beat up in school you learn not to screw around with anything bigger than you. ?????ÿ
My son and I were driving separate vehicles across Shirley Basin. There were a dozen steers walking down the highway, clearly not where they should be so I stopped and pulled him over and we opened the nearest gate and herded them through the fence. The police pulled up just as we were getting the last couple through. I didn't know the brand, who owned the pasture, if they came from miles away but it had to be better than being out on a 75 mph highway.?ÿ
It works better when there aren't calves involved.?ÿ
About 35 years ago I was driving down one of the more important paved County Roads in the area.?ÿ Thankfully, there was no other traffic at the point where I noticed about a 1000 lb Charlois cow wandering down the road as if she owned it.?ÿ I could see her friends in the field on the north side of the road.?ÿ Got her attention with the car horn then began pushing her west at a nice pace.?ÿ Suddenly, she took off running away from me, went to a specific spot along the fence line, dropped to her belly and slid under the bottom fence wire.?ÿ Of course, that wasn't enough room to fit her through, but, not a problem.?ÿ The entire fence lifted up, including the steel posts on either side, letting her through, then the fence dropped back in place with the posts sliding back down into the holes.?ÿ This left the fence looking identical to the way it had been a minute earlier.
How on earth do you "shoo" a mob of 1,000 pound steers considering one of 'em weighs 5 times what you do? ?????ÿ
Cattle are pretty easy to herd in my experience.
?ÿ
@dave-karoly A good length of black poly pipe makes the job easy, might look like a big set of horns I spose, but stops them going around you.
How on earth do you "shoo" a mob of 1,000 pound steers considering one of 'em weighs 5 times what you do? ?????ÿ
Learned this one from a fellow I worked with very early on you just yell a special phrase at them.?ÿ In a very heavy southwest Kentucky accent it phonetically would look like this -
Honow gnet onnout a hrr!
After a few times hearing it, I finally figured out it was -
Go on now, get on out of here!
Seemed to always work like magic.
?ÿ
Chased a big FAT cow out of the road and back to the pasture one day, only to realize she was stopped at a cattle guard.?ÿ She made a move to try to get past me, and I cut her off.?ÿ That cow then proceeded to jump over the cattle guard right against the post.?ÿ Took some pretty impressive acrobatics because she literally looked like she jumped in a horizontal arc along with the vertical one!
At least she was back in the pasture, but with her talents, I'm not sure how long it lasted...
