Jumping

[Anne]

Hello!

I started jumping with my cow Medea.
She knows that task from jumping and running around with me. She was a very spirited calf:

… and still loves to jump. Especially in spring!

[Rod]

Great photos, thanks Anna.

[Carl Russell]

Very Awesome, Thanks Anne

[mother katherine]

Sooo Cooool.
I don’t know if bRod will do anything fancy like jumping, but I’m hoping he’ll keep on letting me get onto his back in preparation to ride when he’s old enough.
I want to start real early with the new pair teaching them tricks.
Thanks
oxnun

[Berta]

Oh my, I love it.

My boys will bounce over branches on the ground when I’m running around with them but they have no interst in moving fast enough to jump when being ridden.

[Andy Carson]

How cool! I would have never guessed a cow would do this, and it sure looks like a lot of fun!

[Tim Harrigan]

You are doing a great job with your steers, Anne. It is nice to see how versatile cattle can be when they are challenged in different ways.

[Joshua Kingsley]

If I ever tought My steers to jump My dad would have my butt in a sling…. I can see it now a quiet day in the pasture for the cows and one of the steers decides the poly wire is just low enough and bang out goes the rest of the herd.

Joshua

[fabian]

@Joshua Kingsley 16429 wrote:

If I ever tought My steers to jump My dad would have my butt in a sling…. I can see it now a quiet day in the pasture for the cows and one of the steers decides the poly wire is just low enough and bang out goes the rest of the herd.

Joshua

:):):)

I (!) would never teach my cows or steers jumping. I once had a heifer which enjoyed jumping WITHOUT getting it teached. If any animal was out of the pasture it was her. And when I came, to fetch her back to the pasture and she heard me, she jumped very elegant over the fence like a horse. And two hours later, if she wanted, she was outside again. This heifer hadn’t a long life in my small herd. 😉
What Anne does may work, but I don’t want to have cattle that lost the respect for the fences.

Wolfgang (Fabian R.I.P.)

[mother katherine]

Wolfgang
I saw the RIP – did something happen to Fabian?
oxnun

[sanhestar]

from what I know was Fabian butchered last year.

[Nat(wasIxy)]

Great as always anne 😉

I used to jump with Angus, but he hates it. Loves climbing, hates jumping. He would rather clamber over a jump and trash it than leap! 😀

My other, the brown swiss, did enjoy it and it was difficult keeping him in!

[CharlyBonifaz]

looking at Anne’s pictures:
my ox used to walk through the creek, now he jumps it…….I don’t even want to sit on him when he does that, it’s about 7 or 8 foot and he makes a standing jump 😮
first time he did it, I was on the other side of the water trying to coax him over, and all of a sudden he had this look on his face, in his eyes, I just knew I had to get out of his way and sure enough, the very next instant he came flying…..

[fabian]

@sanhestar 16438 wrote:

from what I know was Fabian butchered last year.

So it is.
But he is the first animal I butchered for whose butchering I am sorry.
he was very calm, busy and quick moving, though he was small .
But after the birth of the twins I don’t have the place in the barn for him, but the place in the freezer.
I set his name behind mine because not every one here knows me under MY name. The choosing of his name as nickname here was the adoption of a tradition of many teamsters. I won’t never do so a second time.

Wolfgang

[Anne]

Thanks for your comments and thoughts! 🙂
So far Medea doesn´t jump fences. She seems to be confident with her herd, pasture and animation programm. And I do a lot to keep her happy – and to give her something else to think about! 😉

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