City boy checking in.

So, this one time out on a hike in a semi-rural area, the trail opened out on a grassy riverbank kind of place, and there were a dozen or so cows between me and the path onwards.

Now, I mostly grasp which end of a cow the grass goes in, but that’s about my limit; I have no real idea how they operate IRL.

I ended up carefully edging my way past them and gave them as much space as I possibly could, and got extremely stared at by all of them, who probably thought I was nuts.

Just out of curiosity - how careful did I need to be? Can you just like walk through the middle of them, or would that be asking for trouble?

  • Fleppensteyn
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    4 days ago

    Where would you come across a bull though? I’ve never seen one in a field with cows.

    • agentshags@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 days ago

      When the farmers trying to get more cows, they sometimes leave a bull in I the field with the cows, at least I think that’s how our farmer does it for his beef cattle

      • Fleppensteyn
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        3 days ago

        I think they mostly drive a bull out for some breeding and ship it off again, or do it artificially. They don’t leave the bull out because it may get aggressive.