Could you just skip this, and get to the important question.
Can cows, or can cows not, eat surveying flagging ??ÿ That's what we want to know.
Yes.?ÿ They eat survey flags, as well.?ÿ Also, baling wire, barbed wire, cockleburs, hedge apples, nails, chunks of dirt, baling twine, shop towels, spider webs.?ÿ You name it, they just might eat it.
There is a specific ailment known as "hardware disease".?ÿ https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g7700
@holy-cow That goes a ways to explaining, flagging is the least of their worries. Been painting laths in a pasture, which
really doesn't matter, they just knock them over anyways.
That is a short lived scratching post.?ÿ Set painted hubs instead.?ÿ Shorter, but will last far longer.
@rj-schneider well I use flagging to mark where fences need repairs after a storm. I will flag a limb out in pasture so i have the shortest walk into the woods for repairs. I tie it up high so the cows and deer can??t get to removing it before I get er fixed.
when I was a young buck I was working cattle with my uncle. Before my start in surveying. Well they were laying out the old photo control targets. I had no clue at that time what all that was. But I remember walking over to the crew and saying y??all don??t need to put that stuff down there because cows will eat it and die. They laughed at me. My uncle walked over and said please move that to the other field we just moved the cows and they will eat that and not be able to digest it and die. They were a bit disrespectful to my uncle. Well two days later we went to move the cows as he knew what was going to happen. But it was a bit late for a heifer and steer. We rode into town and walked into this big fancy office where my uncle started to explain things. I remember a man writing a check and those guys came out and helped dig the whole lol. ?ÿ
Ya got to respect the land when on someone??s property. ?ÿI love pig penning traverse points but when I am on someones farm I try and be discreet as possible. ?ÿFixed a gues fence last week. Well patched it. Barbed wire strand had snapped the clip. Flagging works in a pinch. Next day out I had a clip but the old timer had it fixed. He thanked me for marking where it was down.?ÿ