Your cattle raising neighbor needs to get some information from his local extension office, or local ag. university on use of electric fencing. He's showing is ignorance. Hope he didn't see you with that hot shot, that would set him off!
Neighbor's cow eating our hedge
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This falls in the category of "free advice" being worth what you paid for it, but if you are correct about the camellia muncher being a bull, eg unneutered male, in with a "heifer", and if as it sounds, he has basically made pets out of them, I would recommend you not go into their pasture. They can be unpredictable. Keep an eye out for your neighbor, he could get hurt even if either of them is just being pushy, not downright mean.
If your neighbor enjoys learning about his cattle here's a good site for just about any topic related to them. Often times the third party influence is greater than a good friend telling another something helpful.
https://cattletoday.com/forum/index.php
https://cattletoday.com/forum/index.php
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All great advice, but my thought is can he just move your section of fence near the hedge back 3 feet toward his property?
A cow can reach about 3 feet outside the wire.....
Or, if your hedge has encroached on his property, you may be out of luck...
Like sheep said, with a bull out there, I wouldn’t be wandering around in there.
Had an elderly friend, lifetime dairy farmer, get tangled up with a mature Jersey bull. The Jersey won...not big, but he was nasty. Farmer was put down and ground into barbed wire fence...ribs broken and messed up, but could have been worse....
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A cow can reach about 3 feet outside the wire.....
Or, if your hedge has encroached on his property, you may be out of luck...
Like sheep said, with a bull out there, I wouldn’t be wandering around in there.
Had an elderly friend, lifetime dairy farmer, get tangled up with a mature Jersey bull. The Jersey won...not big, but he was nasty. Farmer was put down and ground into barbed wire fence...ribs broken and messed up, but could have been worse....
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For one not experienced with cattle, it doesn't matter much whether the animal is a bull or a cow, they can both hurt a human quickly. You can be feeding them and they get excited by the rattling of the bucket and just move over....there you are with a 600# calf a 1100# cow or a 1600# bull. They meant no harm, but you were in the way! You lose!
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Very true...we had a charolais heifer cross that was a challenge for a kid (me) to take care of. She was a pisser, no doubt...Called her “Blockhead”. [emoji12]
My grandfather liked her; she milked well, and she became “Goldie....”[emoji3]
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Thanks so much for all the good info and suggestions. When this happened I didn't know anything about cows, but I knew who to ask!
Here are a few pictures. A normal section of hedge, about six feet tall. The section that got worked with over. The culprit, pretending he doesn't know anything about what happened to those tasty bushes ("maybe the dog ate them, I saw him over there yesterday").
-- Carl
Here are a few pictures. A normal section of hedge, about six feet tall. The section that got worked with over. The culprit, pretending he doesn't know anything about what happened to those tasty bushes ("maybe the dog ate them, I saw him over there yesterday").
-- Carl
