Marmaduke
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Oi @Hippo and @GrumpyGel you've a traitor in yer midst
Dartmoor Navigator
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Turboman
Mab An Gov
Every fookers gorn soft.
Beating the inner race off yer stub axle on the side of the M5 in the rain used to be a right of passage
Nuttin wrong with changing an engine in a car park in Carlisle in the snow, is there ?
Builds character and puts hairs on yer chest!
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Nig
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blue beasty
Leaks an prone to bits dropping off
Nig
Bored Shìtless
I is wash it regoola an give it a good rub.
Ah wunt botha if ah had a gaylanderer, prolly jus gi it the mrs to abuse anyways.
Turboman
Mab An Gov
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Turboman
Mab An Gov
I bred him.. Now dead sadly!
Sold him to a suckler herd, he was there a few years, he tested positive for TB and got slaughtered! Gutted, walked a long way with him! And pocketed a good few prizes
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I bred him.. Now dead sadly!
Gutted, walked a long way with him! And pocketed a good few prizes
Awe, now that's sad... Welsh Black? Galloway?
Turboman
Mab An Gov
Are you joking??
Dartmoor Navigator
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No, it the only black breeds I know of... what is he?
Turboman
Mab An Gov
You must be a heathen! Only one king of cattle, the original and best, best in all ways. Aberdeen Angus
Dartmoor Navigator
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Bu99er, that wuz an initial thought but I dunt see much of them 'round 'ere
all Belted Galloways, Welsh and Devon Reds.
Dartmoor Navigator
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Cows makes me nervous when them starts following around...
Any advice, other than 'get orf moiy laaaand'?
Any advice, other than 'get orf moiy laaaand'?
doriz
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Its what I suspected...
Turboman
Mab An Gov
Bu99er, that wuz an initial thought but I dunt see much of them 'round 'ere
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!
Dont try that until you have about 20 years experience, though!
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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?
