Posted: Sun Nov 19, 06 12:54 pm Post subject: Spot the freak !
Trevor the dexter bull calf who now thinks that he is a horse, has little or no respect for our barbed wire fences and quite literally has free range of the place !
Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 5267 Location: Mid-Wales
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 06 4:14 pm Post subject:
Yes.... he looks very pleased with himself.... "Look at me and my best mates..."
Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 8407 Location: South Cornwall
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 06 4:18 pm Post subject:
Bodger thats mean.
You could have at least got him a matching rug.
hils
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 568 Location: Nottingham
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 06 4:29 pm Post subject:
ummmm horseradish sauce
Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 8407 Location: South Cornwall
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 06 4:33 pm Post subject:
Perhaps he's seen his bigger siblings disapearing & the horses staying & realised its time to make like a horse.
hedgewitch
Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 5834 Location: Daft wench GHQ
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 06 10:05 pm Post subject:
The horses look a bit unsure of the upstart
Anna-marie
Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 980 Location: West Wales
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 06 10:08 am Post subject:
Bodger,
My Dexter bull calf (now a year old) has absolutely no respect for any fence, either.
He has been across the river, "visiting" a neighbour's dairy cattle , and I have found it absolutely impossible to keep him out of the goat shed.
I nailed a sheep hurdle at a height that was OK for the goats to get in, but too low for Aqua, or so I thought. Until I caught him in there yesterday, and wondered how on earth I was going to get him back out again.
He soon solved the problem by lying down on his belly and wriggling along the floor until he was outside again. (Little b*gg*r!!)
Anna-marie
Touch wood, we have his mum here and he's been content to stay within our boundaries.
We are going to turn him into a bullock one of these weekends. We haven't told him yet, so keep it to yourself, incase he gets wind of whats a foot and packs his bags and does a proper runner.
Anna-marie
Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 980 Location: West Wales
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 06 11:00 am Post subject:
bodger wrote:
Touch wood, we have his mum here and he's been content to stay within our boundaries.
We are going to turn him into a bullock one of these weekends. We haven't told him yet, so keep it to yourself, incase he gets wind of whats a foot and packs his bags and does a proper runner.
OUCH!!! What's it worth to keep a secret?
By the way, I also have Aqua's mum, his "auntie" and his half-sister, but it still didn't stop him wandering across the river and up a steep bank (and through two fences)
He's got to get use to the cold, its going to be perishing for him in the freezer.
Good point
Just curious about one thing - when you take him to the abattoir what happens to his fur coat - do you get it back or is it one of the bits that they keep?
, and I have found it absolutely impossible to keep him out of the goat shed.
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