Cows escape! Mixed in with the neighbour's herd...

This is definitely not the sort of thing you want to see on a hot summer's day; our cows wandering through a gap in the hedge to mingle in with the neighbour's herd!

I guess it was bad luck that we'd sent our herds into neighbouring paddocks; that's only happened a couple of times since the start of the season. But there was a difference this time - we had two bulls running with our herd and the neighbour had a bull in with his herd too. There was just too much temptation for them!

From the look of the broken fence it would seem that the neighbour's bull broke through first, then our two bulls went into defensive mode and tried chasing him back. Meanwhile there are always some curious individuals within any group of animals and those are the ones that decided to pass through the gap into the neighbouring farm.

Our neighbour and us had to spend a couple of hours in the hot sun sorting through the herds and getting any strayers back onto the correct property. All-in-all it wasn't as bad as it could have been and was actually a good excuse for a chat.

The bulls wouldn't give up though, even after putting a temporary fence on both sides of the gap. So eventually we decided to move the entire herd into a different paddock away from the edge of the farm.

Something needs to be done about that broken fence though...

cow on the run | problems on the farm | bulls

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