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You Don't See That Every Day

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BrokenolMarine
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You Don't See That Every Day

Post by BrokenolMarine » Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:06 am

Fiona was on Duty in her window and started to bark. A Mercedes SUV we didn't know had pulled into the driveway and stopped. :?
Hmmm? We were watching, but the driver didn't exit. Then, a Longhorn cow with a calf walked casually behind the car. :o Then a trio of additional cows, then a 2,000 pound Charlet Bull! :shock: Herding a full dozen cows, was a small UTV, weaving back and forth to keep them moving. The SUV pulls out and follows the "cattle drive."

We walk to the windows to watch, then the herd vears to the side of the road to OUR fence line to visit with our cows and donkey.
"That's a problem," Says Miss Tina "Stormy is in season."
The calf is WAY to young to breed and the bull could stand flat footed over her, he is huge.
She jumps in the UTV and zooms down to join the parade to insure OUR cows don't get out and the bull doesn't get in.
She ends up being gone forty-five minutes, helping the owner herd his cows home. (three miles up the road)
They had been missing more than a week.
He suspects someone opened a remote pasture gate and let them out. He found them five miles from home.

We suggested he put in Video surveillance like we use. He said that much of his property is remote.
"Our's too," Miss T told him. "Game Cameras, pull the cards every few days and change the batteries as needed. Write the cost off on your taxes."
(Solar is an option, but in the wooded areas such as we monitor...?"
He had never thought of game cameras for that purpose.

We have "Video Monitoring" signs on the fencelines as well.
Plus, the donkey doesn't like strangers...
You can tell a lot about the character of a man...
by the way he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I don't look back at the things I can no longer do, I just look forward to the things I still can.

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Re: You Don't See That Every Day

Post by BrokenolMarine » Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:10 am

The longhorn had a 6' spread and when the wife, driving the Mercedes SUV blew the horn at her on the way back to their farm, she turned and lowered her head and charged the car... The wife told Miss T that "The Longhorn has always had an attitude." Miss Tina told her to hold back in the car, and she and the hubby would herd them with the UTVs. They didn't seem to want to charge the UTVs.

"That's because he ha butted them back with the UTV," The wife told Miss T. :lol:
You can tell a lot about the character of a man...
by the way he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I don't look back at the things I can no longer do, I just look forward to the things I still can.

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