How do you feel about walking through a field of cows?

cows are nosy buggers, and they can be dangerous but in general you can just push them out of the way. especially if they bunch in on you and they fall, or you get a particularly angsty bull.

i remember helping a friend fix a fence and the cows were constantly in the bucket trying to eat the barbed wire (it was in the same kind of bucket they normally get feed in), i spent the entire time pushing them around.
 
I don't find it a problem, they always move out the way once you get close enough though you sometimes have to get pretty close. I am mindful not to walk between say one cow and the rest of the herd just in case it gets nervous and acts unpredictably, but that's just common sense.

I believe there are rules what a farmer is allowed to put in a field with public access, certain dairy breeds are not allowed for example. As for bulls I've always been told they're only dangerous when they're on there own which you should never see anyway in a field with a footpath.
 
Heh thanks guys. Looks like I'm not alone. Interesting about cornering them. The first field they were all in the corner so us walking towards them could easily have spooked them. The other with calves was just a big fat no. The girlfriend was arguing about the path being well trodden so they must be used to people. Hmn..

byeo said:
Use to do it every morning as a kid on my paper round. Worst thing about it was trying to navigate all the cow pats they leave everywhere.
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Yes. Having felt rather daft giving up our walk, on the way out of the field i went shoe-deep in one :(

So, next question- how do you find walks in the countryside that are cow-free? :D
 
I got charged by a bull whilst doing geology field work at university. I ended up diving into a guy's back garden, over a wire fence, with him looking at me from his lounge window :P

I just waved and left via his side gate... Embarrassing but at the time seemed the logical thing to do.
 
Wouldn't do it. Cows can kill.

Seriously they are official the Uk most dangerous animals having killed 74 people in the last 15 years. Way more than all the dogs on the dangerous breed list.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...deadly-large-animals-in-britain-a6727266.html

In fact you are far more likely to be killed by a cow than a terrorist in the uk yet I don't see anybody doing enything about the cows like banning them flying in or putting them on watch lists
 
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I would have done the same as the op. I've diverted walks before due to cows. I'm happy when there's a fence or wall in the way.
 
Greebo said:
Wouldn't do it. Cows can kill.

Seriously they are official the Uk most dangerous animals having killed 74 people in the last 15 years. Way more than all the dogs on the dangerous breed list.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...deadly-large-animals-in-britain-a6727266.html

In fact you are far more likely to be killed by a cow than a terrorist in the uk yet I don't see anybody doing enything about the cows like banning them flying in or putting them on watch lists
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Like locking them in fenced off fields normally surrounded by barbed wire? Or killing them en masse? No...nothing at all!
 
Dis86 said:
Like locking them in fenced off fields normally surrounded by barbed wire? Or killing them en masse? No...nothing at all!
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Yet they are still winning the war by been the most dangerous animal to us. Where is the outcry on facebook about the 74 innocents killed?

Perhaps if we didnt lock them up and try to exterminate them they would leave us alone?
 
Greebo said:
Yet they are still winning the war by been the most dangerous animal to us. Where is the outcry on facebook about the 74 innocents killed?

Perhaps if we didnt lock them up and try to exterminate them they would leave us alone?
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Cows generally don't try and target people. They're also...useful. unlike violent dog breeds or islamists.
 
Cows tend to run at you and then stop a few feet away and just stare at you. This tends to freak people out as they think they're charging. Keep a respectful distance from the calves and avoid walking a dog through a cow field, other than that it's all good.
 
[Marwood is face to face with a bull after leaving the gate open]
Withnail: Grab it's ring! Keep your bag up, I'll find it.
Farmer Parkin: Hey! Show no fear! Just run at it!
Marwood: Well, that can't be sensible, can it? The *******'s about to run at me!
Farmer Parkin: Well, he's randy!
Marwood: Yes, yeah! I know he is!
Withnail: Wants to get down there and have sex with those cows.
Marwood: Shut up, Withnail!
Farmer Parkin: Run at it, shouting!
Withnail: Do as he says, start shouting.
[Withnail lights a cigarette]
Withnail: He won't gore you.
Marwood: A coward, you are, Withnail! An expert on bulls, you are not!
 
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