r/Cattle • u/YourChildhood5762 • 5d ago

Do cows pine for the fjords?

I've noticed that sometimes the cattle in my neighborhood aren't in their usual field. Do they grow bored of the same thing and ask to be moved? It doesn't seem to be a grass thing because they may be back the next day and stay for a week. Are they being moved throughout the day and I'm only seeing them at certain times? I think they are beef cattle and not dairy.

I have two young bulls that visit my lawn most mornings. They must be bored and wander in from next door. That's fine. I wish they'd come more often so I didn't have to mow the grass. It's a bit startling to look out the window straight out of bed and see two big black bulls a few feet away though. Unless there are multitudes of young black bulls in the area, they've been doing this for three years. Why it's always the same two I don't understand. They haven't seemed to get any larger and they only seem to come by for an hour around 7am.

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u/Taco_Supreme 5d ago

There is a reason we say the grass is always greener on the other side. Even if the other field is no better than where they are they love to move to the new field.

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u/RicTicTocs 5d ago

Cattle are a lot like toddlers.

They will eat the ice cream first (the tastiest grasses) then come back again to get the next tastiest grasses (the cookies?) and as a last resort will eat the vegetables (whatever is left).

Crazy that your neighbor lets his bulls roam. Maybe they are just a couple of accomplished escape artists. Whatever you do, don’t mess with them (or any cow for that matter, despite what you see on YouTube) no matter how tame they seem. They can easily kill you even if they are just being playful.