The Marvelous Miscellany of MMcV

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Paint faster! 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Paint faster! 

Stopo stealing my lines !!!!!! Anyway you couldn't paintb any faster, the heat generated woukld melt the figures....

[Raider4]

. . . some other nice odds and ends, including some farmyard animals.

Well-timed as we've just had the new neighbours move in:

"This one is small, those are far away".

[mmcv]

  

[Techno II]

That plastic netting won't keep moo cows off your lawn, Matthew.

Just hope that they don't chomp down all the vegetation behind them...otherwise they'll be on your lawn 'toot sweet'....If it looks nicer !

Cheers - Phil.

[mmcv]

Haha don't worry Phil, it's metal wire and there's barbed wire on the other side as well. Previous owners installed it and seemed to work okay. And sure if they did munch it then it would save me mowing it 😂

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

And sure if they did munch it then it would save me mowing it 😂

You would have other things to clean up though...

[mmcv]

Haha yes a bit heftier than the dog's leavings I imagine

[Techno II]

Haha don't worry Phil, it's metal wire and there's barbed wire on the other side as well. Previous owners installed it and seemed to work okay. And sure if they did munch it then it would save me mowing it 😂

Noooooooo, Matthew.......If sheep got onto your lawn.....they'd make a relatively neat job.
Moo cows are not in the same league.

Ten plus years ago, we 'borrowed' a dozen or so beef cattle to chomp down a couple of our fields......the grass was too long for our horses to graze.
The cows did a good job in shortening the grass....and flattening....and puddying up the field.
They then got bored......pushed through a metal gate and wandered off home.

The amount of water cattle drink is astonishing. I'd fill a big trough, at least a couple of times a day while they were here.
One of them...and Daisy really was her name....would always come over to see what I was doing...Not an evil bone in her body......and rest her head on my shoulder.

The owner of the 'herd' told me not to fall over....... "She wouldn't mean it, Phil....But if she simply stands on you.......You'll die..

Happy days !

Cheers - Phil 

[mmcv]

Yeah these ones are all very friendly but they're big beasties. Trying to train the dog to not go mental when he's out at the same time as them. He's fine when they're at a distance, but when they're right up at the fence he gets a bit too excited, then that draws more of them over to see what's happening!  he's begging to go out again now after having had a good bark at them ten mins ago...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Were on an exercise which involved digging in (to earth like concreate) when our overhead cover arrived - shiny corrigated iron sheets, followed by the local herd of cows !

[mmcv]

I'm sure that was a delight!

Took the dog out on a lead and some treats, can get him up to about two metres away from them keeping him calm before he starts barking. Hopefully doing that a few times will get him used to them.

[Techno II]

NO, Matthew  .....never, ever take a dog into a field with cows........More especially if there are any calves......You..and your canine will genuinely run the risk of becoming a nasty bloody smear in the mud.

Cows (usually)....weigh more than equines.....and are far more protective of their offspring than gee-gees.

Genuinely......I've been in fields with two/three day old foals...The mum's seemed to know I wasn't a threat....and basically ignored me.....while the foal played 'High ho, Silver ' with me.

I'll try and find the piccy of me with 'Cassidy'.

Mummy cows ?.....I really wouldn't trust.

Cheers - Phil. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Indeed Phil, cows will attack all canines, think they are wolves so I've heard

[mmcv]

No no not into the field, I mean into our back garden just. So still the fence between us. It's just to get him used to being near them without going ballistic. Doesn't appear to be any calves at this point, looks to be all female cows and they haven't shown any signs of aggression as such, just tend to crowd round for a look at the fence if a dog starts barking. There's dogs in most of the houses backing onto the field along here and their other fields border walks where there's always plenty of dogs going past so the cows seem fairly comfortable at having dogs nearby, just out dog isn't used to these big beasties looking over the fence into the back garden!

So just taking him out on the leash when they're out in that field so I can control him and keep him calm and get used to them being there rather than leaping around barking at these smelly intruders,. otherwise it'll be a noisy summer!