Have you had cattle break out ? tell the story !

severeoversteer

:eek::rolleyes:

severeoversteer

numerous times, broke out once and neighbour put them in her slatted shed and gave them a bale of silage ! couldnt believe it:eek: so nice of her:D and helped me bring them back all 15 of them.

Muckit

I hope your not talking to yourself !

severeoversteer

Muckit wrote: »

I hope your not talking to yourself !

no sorry muckit my first thread to start !:eek: bit of a novice! :rolleyes:
hopefully we might get a story though!

blue5000

Ya we've had the 'running of the bulls' in a nearby village, and no I don't live near pamplona.....:o

Stheno

I was pony trekking on holiday once, and was in the middle of three horses when one went berserk and all three took off down a narrow country lane.

Being a novice novice horserider I sat there in the middle of the rampaging beasts, fervently pulling on the reins trying to get my horse to stop.

About 2-3 minutes later a herd of cattle broke out of their field to join in the stampede leaving me with even fewer options to escape.

I finally managed to fall off and land on the side of the road on the grass, while the animals thundered past.

Can only imagine the farmer trying to get them back in.

severeoversteer

cattle can cover ground ill tell ya, grazing the long acre !

whelan1

had many scary ones, heifer on the motorway, bull at the local pub , fresh calved cows breaking out back to their calves, sure we all have stories that we dont want to re live:)

Grecco

This is some laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU

pakalasa

We bought a single bullock in the mart once. Drove into the middle of the field to let him off. Says to SOMEONE to wait a while, while I get the cattle up from the bottom of the field. Half way down he opens the door. Bullock does a u-turn and heads up the field with SOMEONE chasing him, like a lunatic.
He goes through 3 ditches at home , out onto the road and ends up in a trench of water about a mile away in a very wet field. We try pulling him out with ropes, but no good. Have to get the tractor. Get him out anyway and he's like a drowned rat. I'm hunting him along the field to mix up with other cattle. Suddenly he turns around and charges me. I leap into the water to get away. Up to my waist, in the freezing January cold. He's trying to get at me in through the briars. I'm roaring at SOMEONE on the tractor not to get off. He then decides to break into a buiding site that is open to the road. It dark now so we can't leave him and he's charghing at everyone. Ring a neighbour with a JCB. He dazzles him with the lights and pushes him back into a deep trench of water. He gets up the other side, where there is cattle. Had to leave him there for a few days to settle.
It was near midnight when I got back home, still drenched from the waist down. All because SOMEONE couldn't wait a few minutes while I rounded up a few cattle.:mad:

freedominacup

Grecco wrote: »

This is some laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU

Is the lad screaming Fenton available as a ringtone anywhere? I reckon it'd be a classic.

freedominacup

Was loading a SIMX freemartin heifer for the factory one morning with a group of other heifers. She was always a cracked bitch but she got away on us this time. After about 45mins of tearing around the roads and paddocks close to the yard and numerous wires torn down she jumped a wire at the bottom of a bank ran across the road on top of the bank and cleared the sheep wire and 2 strands of barbed wire on the other side of that road and landed 10 ft out in the slurry pit it was protecting. That cnut would be still running if she hadn't made that mistake. We got a rope on her and hauled her out dragged her around to the dairy door and powerhosed her off and into the trailer. Under no circumstances was she being let go again.

Those SIMX's have some real lunatics amongst them. One of the neighbours had one broke into our cows a good few years ago. He'd come in with the cows 'til he got within 50m of the yard then simply pop over the roadway wire and away. They came over one evening with every spare young lad they could get their hands on and a couple of hundred metres of white fence tape definitely gonna get him, no go. Eventually a local deer farmer was called in an he shot the bullock with a tranquilliser. You should have seen the trailer rocking when the bullock got the antidote.

Was in the mother in laws Christmas night around 9 when a phone call came in 20 odd AAX's on the road near one of their out farms someone elses problem it turned out to much relief in that house.

Grecco

freedominacup wrote: »

Is the lad screaming Fenton available as a ringtone anywhere? I reckon it'd be a classic.

Dont know about that but you can buy the T-shirt

Timmaay

Few cattle broke out along the cliff in the place we rent, walked along on the edge of the cliff with a 30ft drop down onto rocks for 50/100m, and made their way into the local golf course, where thank fu*k the chaps doing rounds of golf managed to round them up quick enough before they made it onto any of the expensive greens!

mantua

a bull hoped the fence and into the river and swimming about. tried to guide him up to the neighbours field were the river got shallow and would be grand to get him out but he had other ideas and went the other way. that was at 7pm and we got him out at around 11.30pm that night trapping him under a bridge with with a concrete floor, managed to get a halter on him and ended up pulling him up out of the river with the jeep. that was a thursday night and he was for the mart monday so atleast he looked clean as a whistle:D

crackcrack30

http://youtu.be/MleLqyRY8NA

That farmer must have aged that day.......I remember mannies the breakout, but something that always stuck in my mind was when a neighbouring farmer borrowed a trailer to bring a cow to the factory, he called in on the way past and he had the cow literaly restrained & tied all fours (shackled) to the inside of the trailer......this was at least 25 years ago & I would think a good candidate for Mad Cow disease...

whelan1

crackcrack30 wrote: »

http://youtu.be/MleLqyRY8NA

still laugh at the bit where the farmer turns very quickly with the bull coming after him

severeoversteer

jesus whelen1 on the Motorway !:eek: christ on a bike how'd you not get a stroke !

whelan1

severeoversteer wrote: »

jesus whelen1 on the Motorway !:eek: christ on a bike how'd you not get a stroke !

not good for the nerves , i was 5 or 6 months pregnant at the time, it was on a bank holiday saturday afternoon, had to get guards to stop the traffic.Lunatic of an angus heifer that was in heat, she jumped the fence from field onto motorway. I was driving over the motorway and thought i saw an animal on it, said it to husband he said no way, there couldnt be..... i tried ringing 3 members of my family and all numbers where engaged, pure panic as cars where doing up to 100mph and heifer was jumping over and back on central reservation.....anyway we got help and got her back... times like that there should be gates for access from motorway onto land.

severeoversteer

farmers here in galway insisted on havin their own road either side of the motorway, grand job so it is, you can see it from ballinasloe to galway city even have their own bridges etc;)

Bizzum

I always liked this one.:)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAwiKzBJhXg

severeoversteer

jasus a grand cow , quiet and all

sea12

everyone. Ring a neighbour with a JCB. He dazzles him with the lights and pushes him back into a deep trench of water. He gets up the other side, where there is cattle. Had to leave him there for a few days to settle.
It was near midnight when I got back home, still drenched from the waist down. All because SOMEONE couldn't wait a few minutes while I rounded up a few cattle.:mad:[/Quote]

That was what u call hardship.

Sam Kade

A neighbour of mine dropped a load of cattle for me in Mallow mart one time he left them in a few pens down from the entrance. What ever fool dropped a load of cattle in the pen beside the crush left the inside and outside gates of the pen open there was no one around. As the cattle moved up towards the crush they went into that pen I arrived at the same time and saw the cattle standing in the pen with the gates wide open and it looked as if there was some invisible force holding them back I closed the gates fairly rapid. The drover was standing inside them and said they were in the pen for 5 minutes :eek: If they came out of the pen there would be some fun rounding them up around the town.

Someones bull broke out the back of the mart one time and jumped over a 20ft cliff and landed in the muddyhill car park on top of a solicitors merc he survived and ran amok until Stephen the traffic warden cornered him

mf240

Sam Kade wrote: »

Someones bull broke out the back of the mart one time and jumped over a 20ft cliff and landed in the muddyhill car park on top of a solicitors merc he survived and ran amok until Stephen the traffic warden cornered him

The bull or the solicitor?

Sam Kade

mf240 wrote: »

The bull or the solicitor?

The solicitor maybe he had a love affair with the traffic warden

Rovi

Working on both sides of what used to be one of the country's major intra-urban main roads (now bypassed by a motorway, but still VERY busy), we were utterly paranoid about livestock getting out.
'Standard Operating Procedure' during the housing period if you saw cattle loose around the yard was, if they were between you and the road, to under no circumstances approach them directly but to circle around to the road and make certain the gates were closed and only then worry about figuring out how they got out or where they were gone down the fields.
We were well insured, but that's no consolation if someone is killed or injured on the road.

Even nowadays, with no farm livestock, we still have the place fenced up like a prison camp to keep the dogs from getting to the road.

severeoversteer

sure i suppose no matter what fence you have if they're cract enough theyll clear it like a fxxkin racehorse,

a bit ironic i was fencin the home farm with the father one day and got a call to say cattle had broke out on an outfarm:rolleyes:

grazeaway

Have had a few over the years. Most years it was the weanings, we had a couple of breakouts one year from the shed couldn't figure it out for ages. Spent manny an afternoon with the parents siblings and neighbours trying to round them up. Spotted what happening one day, two of the bigger fr bullocks would stick their heads into the gate and lift it to take the weight, then one of the smaller Angus lads would stick his head out through bars and un clip the Handel with tounge and off they would go. If their were camera phones and you tube then I'd have recorded it.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk_zpMory-0

Rovi

As an aside, while they didn't usually get to the road, an elderly neighbour's (now deceased, RIP) cattle used to break in to ours fairly regularly.
He practised the age-old tradition of summer grazing, and used to buy the cheapest (aka: maddest) bullocks he could find, usually some flavour of Limousin or Friesian. They were always... erm... 'entertaining'

Anyhow, one or twice every summer, some (or all) of his cattle would end up in ours. Our cattle were generally pretty docile, well used to being handled and moved about and not give to hysterics at the sight of humans, but his cattle changed that dynamic pretty dramatically.
Often, the first we'd know of it would be the him appearing in the yard apologising profusely about the trespass, and looking for help to get them back.
Now, while he was the nicest guy you could hope to ever meet and we considered him to be a very good friend of the family, he unfortunately subscribed to the school of animal husbandry where you couldn't shout loud enough, or carry a big enough stick, or pull hard enough with it. In short, he was a liability when handling cattle
He'd end up standing in the middle of the field shouting and roaring while his cattle (and ours!) did laps and created new openings from one field to the next.

He had a heart condition too and we were afraid he'd drop dead on us.

After reassuring him that we weren't offended and that we 'didn't mind', we'd usually help him repair the fence, and persuade him to leave the cattle alone to settle down.
Later that day, or the next day (when he WASN'T there!), we'd bring the whole group of cattle to the collecting yard, separate his, and bring them back home in the trailer.

This too held its own hazards though, as he'd insist we go into the house for a 'nip'.
He had no clue about measures and you'd end up with a big tumbler of neat whiskey

We'd usually try to make this happen at the END of the day

Christmas/New Year was positively dangerous if you ended up there!

severeoversteer

Rovi wrote: »

As an aside, while they didn't usually get to the road, an elderly neighbour's (now deceased, RIP) cattle used to break in to ours fairly regularly.
He practised the age-old tradition of summer grazing, and used to buy the cheapest (aka: maddest) bullocks he could find, usually some flavour of Limousin or Friesian. They were always... erm... 'entertaining'

Anyhow, one or twice every summer, some (or all) of his cattle would end up in ours. Our cattle were generally pretty docile, well used to being handled and moved about and not give to hysterics at the sight of humans, but his cattle changed that dynamic pretty dramatically.
Often, the first we'd know of it would be the him appearing in the yard apologising profusely about the trespass, and looking for help to get them back.
Now, while he was the nicest guy you could hope to ever meet and we considered him to be a very good friend of the family, he unfortunately subscribed to the school of animal husbandry where you couldn't shout loud enough, or carry a big enough stick, or pull hard enough with it. In short, he was a liability when handling cattle
He'd end up standing in the middle of the field shouting and roaring while his cattle (and ours!) did laps and created new openings from one field to the next.

He had a heart condition too and we were afraid he'd drop dead on us.

After reassuring him that we weren't offended and that we 'didn't mind', we'd usually help him repair the fence, and persuade him to leave the cattle alone to settle down.
Later that day, or the next day (when he WASN' T there!), we'd bring the whole group of cattle to the collecting yard, separate his, and bring them back home in the trailer.

This too held its own hazards though, as he'd insist we go into the house for a 'nip'.
He had no clue about measures and you'd end up with a big tumbler of neat whiskey

We'd usually try to make this happen at the END of the day

Christmas/New Year was positively dangerous if you ended up there!

i know them auld lads grand if they like ya but if they dont !:rolleyes: cranky with the animals alright and odd as two left feet, i ran short of grass this year and let a few acres off a neighbour and was all grand. my cattle are very quite(bullocks) and you could do anythin with them ( come up and lick ya or sniff you , follow you anywhere etc) , anyway the man who meared the land i let must have felt abit jealous of me letting the land and he rounded up all his heifers and put them in the field beside the land i let about 300 yards of boundry ! :eek:. was an absolute nightmare ! and all i had was a battery fence:rolleyes:, and the killing thing was is that the man had plenty of fields for his animals and the bad mind in him to do that knowin it would create problems !:mad:

Rovi

In fairness, our elderly neighbour was the finest; he was just farming the same way as when he took over the place in the '60s.
Shouting and roaring and swinging a big stick was how it was done, and that was that :rolleyes:

mf240

severeoversteer wrote: »

i know them auld lads grand if they like ya but if they dont !:rolleyes: cranky with the animals alright and odd as two left feet, i ran short of grass this year and let a few acres off a neighbour and was all grand. my cattle are very quite(bullocks) and you could do anythin with them ( come up and lick ya or sniff you , follow you anywhere etc) , anyway the man who meared the land i let must have felt abit jealous of me letting the land and he rounded up all his heifers and put them in the field beside the land i let about 300 yards of boundry ! :eek:. was an absolute nightmare ! and all i had was a battery fence:rolleyes:, and the killing thing was is that the man had plenty of fields for his animals and the bad mind in him to do that knowin it would create problems !:mad:

Jaysus the neck on him grazing his heifers on his own land, the fcuking cheek of him.

Did you make it clear that you only had a battery fencer?


:D

grazeaway

Ol lad near us used to buy some fair wild cattle too. We could see him chasing them around a field one day for ages, about 20 bullocks in a 25 acres field. After about half an hour we were starting to get worried. Anyway he called over to ask for a hand. Dad wandered over with the sheep dog and asked him where he wanted the cattle. 5 mins later they were all across the road in a pen.

Sam Kade

grazeaway wrote: »

Ol lad near us used to buy some fair wild cattle too. We could see him chasing them around a field one day for ages, about 20 bullocks in a 25 acres field. After about half an hour we were starting to get worried. Anyway he called over to ask for a hand. Dad wandered over with the sheep dog and asked him where he wanted the cattle. 5 mins later they were all across the road in a pen.

A neighbour of mine did that one time with my cattle (mad limos) he ordered his well trained cattle dog to drive them back from the fence after his cattle had broke into my place. The limos sent his dog home fairly fast

You should tell the ould lad that the more he chases the cattle the more they will run

severeoversteer

mf240 wrote: »

Jaysus the neck on him grazing his heifers on his own land, the fcuking cheek of him.

Did you make it clear that you only had a battery fencer?


:D

ahh ya i see who's side yere taking !:(

ahh no this lads a headcase , you'd have to be there ! :eek:

the lad had 10 or 12 heifers and about 50 acres of ground and had them hemmed into the field with no grass and confronted me one day warning he'd ring the department if my cattle broke out again ( my cattle didnt by the way )
this guy is the type that doses cattle on christmas day and makes sure everyone in the parish knows he's workin!:rolleyes:

mf240

severeoversteer wrote: »

ahh ya i see who's side yere taking !:(

ahh no this lads a headcase , you'd have to be there ! :eek:

the lad had 10 or 12 heifers and about 50 acres of ground and had them hemmed into the field with no grass and confronted me one day warning he'd ring the department if my cattle broke out again ( my cattle didnt by the way )
this guy is the type that doses cattle on christmas day and makes sure everyone in the parish knows he's workin!:rolleyes:

Ah ya was only messin.

Theres one of them lads in every parish. They think everybodys out to get them.

severeoversteer

mf240 wrote: »

Ah ya was only messin.

Theres one of them lads in every parish. They think everybodys out to get them.

phew thought you were one of them !

Mickey H

crackcrack30 wrote: »

http://youtu.be/MleLqyRY8NA

That farmer must have aged that day.......I remember mannies the breakout, but something that always stuck in my mind was when a neighbouring farmer borrowed a trailer to bring a cow to the factory, he called in on the way past and he had the cow literaly restrained & tied all fours (shackled) to the inside of the trailer......this was at least 25 years ago & I would think a good candidate for Mad Cow disease...

That's my neighbour that owned that bull. He's the soundest you could meet. We still have a good laugh about this one.

Bodacious

When i was younger My neighbour started up a booming business , Travelling bull Hire, £20 a pop, flat out 6 bulls on the road, 2 lim, 1 AA, 1 sim, 1bb , 1 char. He had yard very close to a nite club in the town( all levelled and apartments now) anyways got call one night some lads broke the shed doors and out with the six bulls at 3am on a Saturday night ... They went mental fighting, took hours to round them up, cars, shop windows, walls, lawns everything got it... Anything they could muscle into .. It was daylight before we located the last of them

The Real Elmer Fudd

We only no the full story as another neighbour total us a long time afterwards he could see the whole thing from his kitchen window.

A neighbours sim bull broke into our suckler a who wer in a field at the top of a very steep hill. The sim bull n our 6 year lim bull took into it at the top of the hill. The lim got the better of the sim n the sim bull went tumbling down the hill with the lim tearing down the hill after him. The sim bull got up n saw the lim coming down the hill after him n took off running through the farm through ever hedge n fence he met with the lim hot on his heals until they reached the road. The sim bull went straight through the hedge n landed on the bonnet of a van. Luckily no one was hurt. Our bull stopped at the hedge at the road n the sim bull with barely a mark on him took off up the road.

The family of the young fella who was driving the van landed on the road n started call us for everything when we told them it was nothing to do with us as all our animals wer in our field. By the time they caught up wit the sim bull he had cross a hedge from the road back into his own field n was happily grazing away. The farmer who owned the bull told them to f**k off his bull was in his field n as far as he was concerned never left it. As far as I no the gardai got involved but they could never prove anything n the young fella had to claim it on his own insurance

Bodacious

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

We only no the full story as another neighbour total us a long time afterwards he could see the whole thing from his kitchen window.

A neighbours sim bull broke into our suckler a who wer in a field at the top of a very steep hill. The sim bull n our 6 year lim bull took into it at the top of the hill. The lim got the better of the sim n the sim bull went tumbling down the hill with the lim tearing down the hill after him. The sim bull got up n saw the lim coming down the hill after him n took off running through the farm through ever hedge n fence he met with the lim hot on his heals until they reached the road. The sim bull went straight through the hedge n landed on the bonnet of a van. Luckily no one was hurt. Our bull stopped at the hedge at the road n the sim bull with barely a mark on him took off up the road.

The family of the young fella who was driving the van landed on the road n started call us for everything when we told them it was nothing to do with us as all our animals wer in our field. By the time they caught up wit the sim bull he had cross a hedge from the road back into his own field n was happily grazing away. The farmer who owned the bull told them to f**k off his bull was in his field n as far as he was concerned never left it. As far as I no the gardai got involved but they could never prove anything n the young fella had to claim it on his own insurance

I was only young so I don't know ins and outs of what was or wasn't paid for, but in your case , wild rough on the young lad and his van :-(, could have sorted something together

The Real Elmer Fudd

Bodacious wrote: »

I was only young so I don't know ins and outs of what was or wasn't paid for, but in your case , wild rough on the young lad and his van :-(, could have sorted something together

Totally agree with you. This was 15 years ago, I was only 14 at time myself. We assumed the man who owned the bull sorted the young fella out but it wasn't until 2 years later when our other neighbour brought it up in conversation one night that we found out what actually happened

freedominacup

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

We only no the full story as another neighbour total us a long time afterwards he could see the whole thing from his kitchen window.

A neighbours sim bull broke into our suckler a who wer in a field at the top of a very steep hill. The sim bull n our 6 year lim bull took into it at the top of the hill. The lim got the better of the sim n the sim bull went tumbling down the hill with the lim tearing down the hill after him. The sim bull got up n saw the lim coming down the hill after him n took off running through the farm through ever hedge n fence he met with the lim hot on his heals until they reached the road. The sim bull went straight through the hedge n landed on the bonnet of a van. Luckily no one was hurt. Our bull stopped at the hedge at the road n the sim bull with barely a mark on him took off up the road.

The family of the young fella who was driving the van landed on the road n started call us for everything when we told them it was nothing to do with us as all our animals wer in our field. By the time they caught up wit the sim bull he had cross a hedge from the road back into his own field n was happily grazing away. The farmer who owned the bull told them to f**k off his bull was in his field n as far as he was concerned never left it. As far as I no the gardai got involved but they could never prove anything n the young fella had to claim it on his own insurance

I'm a lousy f**ker, I'm breaking my arse laughing at this one. It's funny cos no-one got hurt. Tough on the poor young lad in the van though.

Bodacious

freedominacup wrote: »

I'm a lousy f**ker, I'm breaking my arse laughing at this one. It's funny cos no-one got hurt. Tough on the poor young lad in the van though.

He all week polishing the dashboard in her, 3 or 4 different air fresheners on the go, radio flat out and BANG 1000kg of bull ruins the party on him !

freedominacup

Bodacious wrote: »

He all week polishing the dashboard in her, 3 or 4 different air fresheners on the go, radio flat out and BANG 1000kg of bull ruins the party on him !

A real example of traceability working in farmers favour:D. That bull absolutely, positively wasn't yours and you could prove it. Hence F-all to do with you. You might have been surprised how he'd have gotten on if he tried to claim against your insurance though.

angeldaisy

I'm not a farmer, but I do live in very close proximity to 3 or 4 farms. I'm always amazed at the lengths cattle go to to escape:D

We've had several incidents where the cattle from different farms like to visit out garden. Two that stick out are;
I was woken at 3 in the morning by the dog going mental in the kitchen, got up and looked out only to see 15 or so bullocks in my back garden, no idea whose they were so rang my brother in law who has the farm next to us. He came up rounded them up and put them into the field next to us - they weren't his anyway. the next day we found out that they had broken out from the farm about 2 miles away, they had gone through his 2 fields to get to the road, gone past 2 other farms with open gates, several other houses until they reached my garden - amazing!

The other time - slightly more scary, was the morning I was on my own in the house with just the dog for company, he starts barking and I look out to see some cattle stood at my gate. so in my dressing gown I rush out and try to herd them into the farm across the road - gate is directly opposite mine. It was only when I was halfway across the road in the middle of shooing them across that I realised they were bulls! I nearly lost my reason, but only 2 escaped down the road out of about 15 or so. but I nearly collapsed when I got in and the implications of it dawned on me - but they weren't damaging my garden again

The Real Elmer Fudd

Used to work for an old lad who kept sucklers. He'd let them graze the entire farm all year round and the boundary fencing was none existent. There was another old lad next to him who had a similar set up and despite both sets of cattle being mad hatters they rarely broke out. They just seemed to know their own boundary n never left it.

Anyway this lad used to sell all his weanling in one trip to the mart every year. One year we got them all rounded up and into the mart with them. It was at the mart when he discovered he had an extra card for a weanling bull and had no animal to match it. So we went back out to the farm and searched up and down incase it was lying sick some where or he had escaped out of the yard with the cows without us knowing. No sign of this animal anywhere. Checked the neighbours farm, no sign there either so we called up to the neighbours house. The neighbour said he would doubt if it was with his cattle as he had moved his cattle to the other side of the main road 3 months previous and they hadnt been back beside my bosses cattle since but he would check anyway. We left him the tag number and left. We got a call the next day to say he was with the other fellas cattle. One lad didnt know he was missing a weanling for 3 months and the other didnt know he had an extra one for 3 months. The other lad even had the weanling dosed and skulled and never realised the animal wasnt his.

He told us he got the weanling into a shed but to leave him there a until he was being sold as he was a bit wild. went over to collect him the next week to head to the mart. As soon as the animal saw anyone he would charge at you. eventually got him on the old wooden trailer my boss had and he went mental. by the time we got to the mart the weanling had broke through the roof of the trailer and had his head and front to legs out through the roof of the trailer. needless to say he wasnt left in the ring to long.

The Real Elmer Fudd

Another year with the same fella mentioned in previous post, we got all the cattle in to separate the weanlings and take them to the mart. There was one little runt of a red whitehead heifer, id say she was only about 4 months old. Your man took a look at her and comptemplated for a minute as to wether he should sell her or not and said **** it ill take her to town and take what ever i get for her as opposed to having her farting around here all winter with the cows annoying me everytime i see her. So onto the trailer with the rest of the weanlings she went. we where off loading them into a pen at the mart and one of the bigger weanlings hit her as she was coming off the trailer. What ever way she fell, she slipped out under the bottom bar of the pen and when she got up she was out in the mart yard. She proceeded to run up and down the yard with about 10 of us trying to get her back into a pen when she eventually bettered us and escaped from the mart, crossed the main road, through the forecourt of a petrol station and into the playground of primary school where she then crossed a fence into a 15 acre field.

Luckily there was beef heifers in the field who where used to being fed meal at the cornor of the field where thankfully there also was a pen and a crush. we got all the cattle into the pen, got her separated and back onto the trailer and back to the mart again with her. At the finish up i think he only €70 for her, which at the time wasnt that bad of price.

razor8

Was driving to work one morning about a 1/2 mile away from mart and was behind a tractor and very old trailer with a bull weanling circling and froth dribbling from his mouth. The aul lad driving hit a few potholes and a combination of the bull circling, when suddenly the door latch popped open and next thing i was staring right at ths bull, i hit the brakes then the horn and out the bull comes all unknown to the driver
Had to decide to follow the bull or the driver so followed the driver with me lying on the horn and no sign of him to stop. followed him right to mart and told him look behind him, the door had come off the hinges at this stage. he hot some land, Had to get a gang from the mart and got him cornered in an oil depot. Woman there were frantic that he'd damage there cars and the bull was terrified but eventually got him into a jeep and trailer. god help the person that bought him that day but nothing or no one damaged

Dupont

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

Another year with the same fella mentioned in previous post, we got all the cattle in to separate the weanlings and take them to the mart. There was one little runt of a red whitehead heifer, id say she was only about 4 months old. Your man took a look at her and comptemplated for a minute as to wether he should sell her or not and said **** it ill take her to town and take what ever i get for her as opposed to having her farting around here all winter with the cows annoying me everytime i see her. So onto the trailer with the rest of the weanlings she went. we where off loading them into a pen at the mart and one of the bigger weanlings hit her as she was coming off the trailer. What ever way she fell, she slipped out under the bottom bar of the pen and when she got up she was out in the mart yard. She proceeded to run up and down the yard with about 10 of us trying to get her back into a pen when she eventually bettered us and escaped from the mart, crossed the main road, through the forecourt of a petrol station and into the playground of primary school where she then crossed a fence into a 15 acre field.

Luckily there was beef heifers in the field who where used to being fed meal at the cornor of the field where thankfully there also was a pen and a crush. we got all the cattle into the pen, got her separated and back onto the trailer and back to the mart again with her. At the finish up i think he only €70 for her, which at the time wasnt that bad of price.

Ballybay???