What is a "tratterer"?

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Eye, these bleedin Tratter boys, they is only interested in 1 fing
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Bu99er, that wuz an initial thought but I dunt see much of them 'round 'ere :oops: all Belted Galloways, Welsh and Devon Reds.

Probably Angus too. As you say, you cant recognise them. Reason for that is that that is hard poor ground, the thinner skinned breeds struggle on Dartmoor.

Cows makes me nervous when them starts following around...

Any advice, other than 'get orf moiy laaaand'?

Quite a lot, the behaviour and handling of cattle is a big subject.

Move steadily but quietly, confident but not aggresive, definitely dont go anywhere near any calves. Dont have a dog. Dont flap, or be scary or unusual, they arent used to orange cagoules.

About the best I can do off the top of my head.

Lot of reading on the net if you google. Some people can move large herds of wildish cattle on their own using nothing but body movements!

Dont try that until you have about 20 years experience, though! ;)
 
Probably Angus too. As you say, you cant recognise them. Reason for that is that that is hard poor ground, the thinner skinned breeds struggle on Dartmoor.



Quite a lot, the behaviour and handling of cattle is a big subject.

Move steadily but quietly, confident but not aggresive, definitely dont go anywhere near any calves. Dont have a dog. Dont flap, or be scary or unusual, they arent used to orange cagoules.

About the best I can do off the top of my head.

Lot of reading on the net if you google. Some people can move large herds of wildish cattle on their own using nothing but body movements!


I recently came across a large group of bullocks (about twenty) gathering around a gate in an electric fence... I was returning from fishing and had my 13 year old son with me. I had to get to the gate but it was dark and mobbed by these frisky boys. I was scared if the touched the fence while we were amongst them that there would be trouble.... we spun around to go back from where we had come from and they started to follow us, the faster we moved the friskier they became - then they started skipping and jumping. I went to pull down a barbed wire top wire to chuck my son to the other side - to find it was electrified!!!

We got back to the gate we had entered by and had to walk for an hour and a half to get back to the car... we got home at gone midnight.

This was a public right of way, obviously the cattle didn't know that. Anything I could have done to disperse them, or did we do the right thing?
 
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