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Post by daylilydude on Apr 22, 2012 5:32:19 GMT -5
about my neighbors calf!! I was at the new house yesterday and walked over to the garden and noticed a calf trying to get at my garden "collards to be exact" and it was really reaching thru the barbwire fence, it was bleeding from the deep scratches in it's neck from the barbs that were cutting it, so me being me, I pulled up a collard plant and let it have it, but I'm afraid that it's going to hurt itself more, is there any advice you can give for this type of situation!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 22, 2012 7:46:43 GMT -5
Richard, first of all, do not feed it. You will only encourage it to lean on the fence more which leads to downed fences, trampled and eaten gardens and a lot of time and effort spent trying to catch the calf. speak with your new neighbour about it. Explain that the calf if trying to eat your veggies and try to come up with a suitable arrangement to keep it out of your garden.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 22, 2012 8:58:09 GMT -5
Try a little extra hot pepper spray on the fence, or whatever it is touching trying to get to the garden. They use ghost pepper spray in India to keep elephants out, it should work on calves!
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billh
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Post by billh on Apr 22, 2012 18:56:24 GMT -5
Hot (electric) fence...works every time
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 23, 2012 0:31:22 GMT -5
Yes but I don't think that Richard should have to pay for the electric fence or the electricity to run it. That should be up to the calf's owner, which is why I suggested he speak to him/her.
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Post by izzy on Apr 23, 2012 11:24:52 GMT -5
or you could give your neighbor some collard seeds so that he can grow them on his side of the fence. ;D
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Post by horsea on Apr 23, 2012 12:12:22 GMT -5
I'm with Izzy. It's called a "trap crop". Except that the insect in question is very, very large. [glow=red,2,300][/glow]
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Post by daylilydude on Apr 23, 2012 12:29:44 GMT -5
and edible...
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Post by gulfcoastguy on May 2, 2012 17:17:18 GMT -5
My country cousin tied a Y shaped forked branch around a cows neck with the point up. When it would try to push its head through the wire the point would stop against the upper wire.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 2, 2012 18:56:34 GMT -5
My country cousin tied a Y shaped forked branch around a cows neck with the point up. When it would try to push its head through the wire the point would stop against the upper wire. That's using your noggin Gulfie. No wait, that's using the calf's nogging Izzy's suggestion is just plain Ingenious!
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Post by horsea on May 2, 2012 21:52:47 GMT -5
My country cousin tied a Y shaped forked branch around a cows neck with the point up. When it would try to push its head through the wire the point would stop against the upper wire. Funniest thing I've read in a while. I am trying to picture this.
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Post by daylilydude on May 3, 2012 6:46:11 GMT -5
Ok, time for me to update this, I caught the neighbor and ask him if there was something we could do, and he said he had seen it happen too, so he decided to move the mama and calf to another part of his property as the only reason that he put them there was because he separated the mama and calf from the rest of his cows until it was strong enough! I ask if there was anything I could do to help and he said, nope, he had well over 200 acres and he would, and did move them already, and he was truly sorry if it caused us any trouble... then we started talking veggie gardens... go figure ;D
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Post by coppice on May 3, 2012 8:49:53 GMT -5
Sounds like a good neighbor. Sneak a zuccini or three on his porch when he aint lookin'
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Post by stratcat on May 3, 2012 23:46:58 GMT -5
Very good, Dld! What Coppice said.
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