Glad they were docile. The first pasture tenant we had after we moved to the house put a herd of half-wild, horned, nasty cows on our fields. (Dad didn't have any special clauses in his contract, he learned.) These bitches could jump like deer, would just as soon charge you as walk away, and regarded fences and gates as suggestions, not law. When he was out of town, he put a 2x4 that was handleable (like 3 foot long or so) by the back door. Our instructions if they were in the yard were to call their owner and then try to talk them back over the fence with the piece of wood.
I was coming home from Lawrence once and saw them in the bean field by the old barn. I grabbed a big stick from an incipient brush pile he was building near there to burn and tried to urge them back into the field. At that point in my live I had been jumping horses over obstacles up to five feet high, but I had no freaking clue cows could jump that well.
My presence fortunately scared them back into the grazing field. Over the freaking fence. I'm afraid I said another "F" word when dad got home from his flight line. Dad gave the guy back his money and ordered him to take the bitches off our grass.
After that the cattle were much nicer (sometimes annoyingly so, they'd come up to dad when he was working).. He put a clause in his field tenant contract that the cattle had to be relatively docile. Not sure the verbiage, he had his attorney craft it.
I was coming home from Lawrence once and saw them in the bean field by the old barn. I grabbed a big stick from an incipient brush pile he was building near there to burn and tried to urge them back into the field. At that point in my live I had been jumping horses over obstacles up to five feet high, but I had no freaking clue cows could jump that well.
My presence fortunately scared them back into the grazing field. Over the freaking fence. I'm afraid I said another "F" word when dad got home from his flight line. Dad gave the guy back his money and ordered him to take the bitches off our grass.
After that the cattle were much nicer (sometimes annoyingly so, they'd come up to dad when he was working).. He put a clause in his field tenant contract that the cattle had to be relatively docile. Not sure the verbiage, he had his attorney craft it.
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