@@#$$# cow !

[grassfarmer]

I'll have to curtail my participation here a bit - can't type too good with my left hand.
Went to move a two day old cow and calf and she wasn't too keen on the idea. She is always uppity but surpassed herself this time by charging me - broken collar bone! Oh well, one more for the cull list. Never seen a red angus go 0-60 in under 5 seconds. Holy #### now I can imagine how quick a bear or cougar can catch you. Not a bad breed for temperment I thought but this one was used to a 24,000 range permit in the Ghost river wilderness as a youngster - definately a ranch cow rather than a farm cow!

[Bez]

Eating them can often be the best revenge!

Bez

[cakadu]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery grassfarmer. Thankfully it wasn't any worse, however I'm sure that the collar bone does not feel too great at the moment.

[kpb]

Hey grassfarmer, take it easy while that collarbone heals. I know what it feels like and it feels like s--t! Anyways nows the time to get the wife, shall we say, more involved in the operation. Heal up there, I'll miss your posts.

kpb

[cowman]

Sorry to hear that grassfarmer. It is always a pain in the butt to be injured. Makes it difficult to get the work done.
I have always advocated not tolerating mean or snaky cows? In the big picture they just aren't worth it? The best cow in the world isn't much good to you if she kills you! Maybe you should have got out the "shark cage"?

[farmers_son]

Most of us will be hurt by a cow sometime during our career. There were 15 farm deaths in Alberta in 2004 and 20 in 2003. Livestock are involved in nearly 50% of farm accidents. If you think about it, you are probably grateful that it is not worse or that it was your children or wife that was hurt. While in hindsight you may say you should have sold that cow or done something different, in reality we tend to overlook a lot of dangers and these things happen so quick there is not time to react.

I am a survivor of a farm accident as many of us are. You will heal but it certainly slows you up for a while. On the bright side you can be thankful you are not one of the 15 or 20.

[whiteface]

Sorry to hear of your accident grassfarmer, there's just nothing like a momma's love for her baby and no, she shouldn't be biting the hand that feeds her but if she were up against a real predetor, her calf would live where many other calves would not and that would make her one of the more "valuable" cows. A very fine line to walk between a cow that can survive and one that won't raise her calf quite as well. A tough decision to sell a "protective" cow but you don't need yourself or your family hurt either. Good luck and have a good day all!

[grassfarmer]

Thanks folks, Cowman a shark cage wouldn't have helped with that b$@#@# she would have been on top of the quad with me!! I'm lucky as you say farmers_son, many aren't. I've lost several friends to farm and car accidents mainly in their twenties.

Anyway it's actually not as sore as getting torn knee ligaments when two sheep barreled past me up the race and took my leg with them! The woolies can be dangerous too!

[grassfarmer]

Geez, grassfarmer, I leave for two days and all heck breaks loose !!! Hope you are well on the mend. Protective cows can be pretty tough on the old constitution if they take a notion.


Take care.