cattle pucking the ground

Czhornet

Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anyone know of a way to stop cattle pucking and scratching the ground. I have one spot in a field every year and the make a sh1te out of it, dont know why they choose here to stand around and dig the place up by pucking it etc. I have re seeded it, put dung on it as a deterrent by they still plough the place, any suggestions as to cause/cure?

blue5000

Maybe you need to move them to the next paddock.

charolais0153

Czhornet wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anyone know of a way to stop cattle pucking and scratching the ground. I have one spot in a field every year and the make a sh1te out of it, dont know why they choose here to stand around and dig the place up by pucking it etc. I have re seeded it, put dung on it as a deterrent by they still plough the place, any suggestions as to cause/cureu?

Fence around it and give the grass a chance to grow

Czhornet

blue5000 wrote: »

Maybe you need to move them to the next paddock.

1st day they went in to the field they were at it (plenty of grass for them), same spot in the same field for the last few years, would some disinfectant work by putting them off with the smell?

Lady Haywire

Do they eat the soil? Only ask cause we used to have a patch of ground on moorland here that cattle would puck up & lick at.
Stopped it when they got free access to salt & mineral licks.

Bellview

Our Angus bull calves like a handy small ditch as it saves digging holes in grounf

Reggie.

Czhornet wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anyone know of a way to stop cattle pucking and scratching the ground. I have one spot in a field every year and the make a sh1te out of it, dont know why they choose here to stand around and dig the place up by pucking it etc. I have re seeded it, put dung on it as a deterrent by they still plough the place, any suggestions as to cause/cure?

How much dung did ya use? I find if i fill the time with dung they ignore it and leave it alone

Angus2018

Animals just being animals. Saw a bull calf march off down the field yesterday and start fighting a tree, pucking it and digging up the ground around it. Sometimes you just have to leave them to own their behaviours.

Czhornet

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Do they eat the soil? Only ask cause we used to have a patch of ground on moorland here that cattle would puck up & lick at.
Stopped it when they got free access to salt & mineral licks.

No they don't eat or lick the soil at all

Reggie. wrote: »

How much dung did ya use? I find if i fill the time with dung they ignore it and leave it alone

Put a light covering on it but I'll tip a trailer load on it if i thought it would stop them!

Reggie.

Czhornet wrote: »

No they don't eat or lick the soil at all



Put a light covering on it but I'll tip a trailer load on it if i thought it would stop them!

I put in a couple of bucket loads

Czhornet

Reggie. wrote: »

I put in a couple of bucket loads

Did it stop them or go back to it after the dung dried out?

Dunedin

It’s normally one spot they go back to every year. Cattle need their entertainment too so once they keep to the same spot I let them at it.

It’s usually only a small square and not the end of the world for me anyways. I find that they don’t even do it in every field but the same spot in one or two fields.

Reggie.

Czhornet wrote: »

Did it stop them or go back to it after the dung dried out?

Yeah never go back to it again. The auld farmers thought me that trick

Track9

Reggie. wrote: »

How much dung did ya use? I find if i fill the time with dung they ignore it and leave it alone

Suggest if you broadcast light cover of sharp say 2 inch chippings this should stop them using the ground as punchbag.

Czhornet

Track9 wrote: »

Suggest if you broadcast light cover of sharp say 2 inch chippings this should stop them using the ground as punchbag.

This is silage ground (after grass) so no chippings will be used i'm afraid