CowgirlUpNY
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by another cow, could he get very complacent? Depressed?
Here's the scenario: 16 month old brown swiss is in pasture with 11 month old polled hereford bull and 11 month old black baldy steer.
BS towers over both of them in height, length and width and is always rough housing with the bull/ Yesterday Husband saw them really getting it on and today BS stays back during feeding until the other two are done. So much so that he didn't get any grain at all. I'm not really understanding the dynamics that are going on right now. BS I laughingly call my lap cow, he's for the most part very docile and comes when I call and lives for food, especially the occasional slice of bread.
If he's not back to himself by tomorrow, will take his temp to see if anythings going on. But I'm really trying to stay out of the pastures seeing as I'm 8 plus months pregnant. Husband already got mad at me today for trying to catch one of our new yearling heifers to blue kote her and she kicked out. (Hey animals kick, just try to stay out of the way.)
So was just wondering if he got knocked out of the 'top dog' spot, would that change his demeanor/personality?
Here's the scenario: 16 month old brown swiss is in pasture with 11 month old polled hereford bull and 11 month old black baldy steer.
BS towers over both of them in height, length and width and is always rough housing with the bull/ Yesterday Husband saw them really getting it on and today BS stays back during feeding until the other two are done. So much so that he didn't get any grain at all. I'm not really understanding the dynamics that are going on right now. BS I laughingly call my lap cow, he's for the most part very docile and comes when I call and lives for food, especially the occasional slice of bread.
If he's not back to himself by tomorrow, will take his temp to see if anythings going on. But I'm really trying to stay out of the pastures seeing as I'm 8 plus months pregnant. Husband already got mad at me today for trying to catch one of our new yearling heifers to blue kote her and she kicked out. (Hey animals kick, just try to stay out of the way.)
So was just wondering if he got knocked out of the 'top dog' spot, would that change his demeanor/personality?