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I have been in two very close incidents myself both times with a [b]dog[/b]
well you've got it coming to be honest!
[i]Do horses attack? [/i]
Neigh.
It's a little racist there DaRC_L most breeds have protectiveness issues, friesians can be very common in a lot of areas.
Having grown up on a farm and worked with livestock for a good 15 years confidence is one thing but also discretion is important. Not being in the wrong place or leaving if the situation is not good. Dogs are not the best thing to have with you this time of year anyway with lots of lambs around and cows and calves. I said it earlier if you have a dog on a lead and it's getting ugly leg go of the dog, hopefully it will out run them to a fence. Think twice about heading into a field of cows & calves with a dog too.
To shift the topic slightly from bovine to equine, are horses in a field quite dangerous too?
Generally, no. Exception is when you have a dog in the same field as a stallion, who won't think twice about trying to kill it if he considers it a threat.
Horses will crowd around you for food or attention which can be intimidating if they start bickering with each other. I've never been unable to chase a horse away (look it directly in the eye and move towards it with arms wide and fingers spread apart).
Ultimately, horses are wimps. Cows are thugs.
I came round a bend on a night ride straight into the side of a cow, like hitting a hot wall, it barely registered me thank goodness.
Sounds like quite the experience!
[i]and fingers spread apart[/i]
they really *hate* counting fingers but feel obliged to either try or run away?
treat with respect, especially the shaggy ones with sharp horns that have been wandering around the campsite descent recently
Not much room to maneuver when it's trotting at you along there, between the stone walls. I hid behind my bike as it thundered slowly past. 😯
Am usually OK with cows and the like but last year there was one on the bridleway with a calf that had been stillborn. There was blood and afterbirth wrong all over the place and the poor animal was bellowing in a most disconcerting way.
Going back wasn't an option so we stayed there for a few minutes until the cow had calmed down (slightly) then kind of edged our way round. Really sad to see it looking at us and then nuzzling its dead calf 🙁
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those 650B wheels really make the stampede come alive.
those 650B wheels really make the stampede[b]d rider[/b] come alive
Forget the cows...it's these killers you should worry about 😉
Stopped us dead in our track they did.
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When i was doing my apprenticeship a fellow aprentice spent 3 years building a kit car, mini marcos, took it out for a first drive, a herd of cows spooked in a field ran towards fence and straight over his car, destroyed the bodywork and i think some cows had to be killed.
Last summer had to cross a field with some cows on a cycle path, chatting to a few fellow cyclists, i pointed out they didnt like red as most of the riders were wearing red, they looked absolutely petrified when the cows started to get closer.
And totally off topic if attacked by an ostrich always raise one hand above the head and make a hand sign like an ostritch, the ostrich will think youre a bigger ostrich and walk away.
Greatest danger is when they try flying - they're really crap at it and keep crashing on people. Just google 'killed by falling cow' to see how common this is. One near me:
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/19/uknews2.mainsection ]Womans narrow escape from falling cow[/url]
I can see that I've completely failed to take cows seriously (I have worked on a dairy farm and have never had a problem with them).
I was riding through a field in Perthshire with my son a few years ago when a group of cows charged towards us. Ever the responsible parent I said "watch this son.." waited until they were 20 yards away before saying "boo!" and making a slight movement in their direction; mass bovine panic was the result.
Maybe I've only ever met nice cows??
wwwas: That picture reminds me of that night out in Aberdeen awhile back!! 😯
Redthunder, those aren't killer sheep, they're the decoys; the killer sheep are up the tree, just waiting to drop on you!
Fair play Chickenman, it's an approach I would normally take but not one I'd advise others to do sometimes. There is a level of understanding required that in reality you are wandering through a work place not a landscape painting.