Stupid Cow!

[mossh]

This is in the moo-ing variety.

Where Mattie is kept, is also a working farm (you name the animal, they've probably got it!) and they breed and slaughter their own cows.

They have two Bulls at the minute (Bertie and Ricardo...don't ask!) and today Bertie got his head stuck, really really stuck, so stuck that he had a tantrum.

I obviously happened to be walking past and Bertie threw the gate really high into the air and it landed with an almighty bang...with bertie still in the gate! Bertie then got out (after throwing it on the floor again!) and tried to get out of the pen, Unfortunately I was in the way armed with a sweeping brush!

Cue me shouting for help to my YO while trying to keep a bull, 3 calves and 2 cows in using a brush!

I was poking the bull with the brush and he just wasn't bothered and kept coming at me, by this point I ran!!

I ran, got some hay and chucked it at him....the bull stopped and ate his way through half a bale of hay in about 46 seconds flat.

Luckily by then the farmer turned up and we could fix the gate so the bull didn't get out (thank god) The calves however did a runner into the pen next door, but I let the farmer chase them!

Bertie is rather thick. He knows he gets stuck if he shoves his head through that part of the gate!

So I am now covered in cow poo (nice!), wet and cold.

Thank god I wasn't leading Mattie and Rosie otherwise I think I'd be in timbucktoo by now...

Life can never be simple can it?

[spotti]

Oh dear...sounds like you've had a rather exciting morning!

I'm impressed at your bull-containing skills and with just a brush you say?!!! Impressive!!!

Glad you're ok and that Mattie and Rosie were well out of the palava

[Jen]

when trying to keep cows somewhere/herding them around then try to make yourself big - arms and legs spread out so that you appear scary to them. bulls however if they chase you then dont run away - they can run a hell of a lot faster than you and it will only make them angry, dont try and provoke them in any way and if you can, climb up a tree or a hedge so that you are higher than them (the amount of times i have done that is unreal!!!) and they get bored.

cows are rather thick and bulls even more so tbh so the chances are that bertie will get his head stuck again, as for being covered in cow muck, i dont really mind it, the smell reminds me of when i was a kid and of my dad as he always smells of it (well we do live in a dairy farm lol!!!)

[mossh]

I don't even think he was going to chase me, I think he was going for a wonder! He's a weird bull! He sort of just pootled over but kind of just kept coming at a steady walk...just at me! I kind of ran behind a corner and was lobbing hay at him. My YO hid in her car killing herself laughing at me

I tried waving my arms at him and making myself big but the bull is actually taller than me (how embarrassing!) so thats what I had the brush for....Still not bothered, luckily the flying hay did the trick and he stopped to eat and by then the farmer came.

Cows are thick, I have now discovered and am waiting for Bertie to get stuck again and wait for a gate to fly past my head!

I wouldn't mind the smell of cow poo, except I have work tonight and no one wants to be served food but some demented cow woman who even smells like them...

[fleabitten]

I went on work experience for a vets and the bull tried to climb out of the crush. I nearly wet myself lol!

I hate cows - they are bloody scary - whether im on horses or on the ground!

[jack]

i hate cows and i would have run away straight away

[rainbow]

he did actually get stuck again tonight but i poked his tummy and said oi and he freed himself his head is huge!

[mossh]

lucky he didn't take the gate off again.
This morning he was well and truely stuck, was quite amusing to see the gate go 6 foot in the air with bull still attached though!