what makes you freak out ?

You just need to be sensible, not spook them and not let dogs chase them (mine have all been trained to be fine with livestock and totally ignore them now).

The cows are very timid and move away if you go towards them. The bullocks are a bit braver, but if they are blocking the path we're walking down, then the dogs go on lead.

The fields are huge, so there is plenty of space to avoid them if required.

 

I am actually quite nervous near cows. That may have something to do with the fact that a few times as a kid I have been sent to buy some milk in a farm which was on top of a hill and there were so many cows (giants compaired to my size) eating the grass everywhere and showing up unexpectedly - too close for comfort.

 

Awwww he is gorgeous!! I love cows...although i can see what Loli is saying some of them do look a bit shifty especially ones on the moors very anti-social.

 

Don't get me wrong i love um too but i'm convinced they've got it in for me...there has to be a fence between us or at least a tree i could attempt to scramble up..i don't know why i'm so scared....but i'd give my right arm for eye lashes just like theirs

 

See what i mean this one has got that...'i'm gonna get Lolimac' look.....

 

Yea he is covered in peircings too

 

An old farmer taught me a very useful life lesson when I was still quite little.

"Never enter a field of livestock without a big stick in your hand".

You usually don't have to use the stick, and even if you do, its just to wave it rather than hitting anything. There are many animals that are brave enough to harass a human, and they sometimes will. Yet almost all animals have an instinctive terror of a monkey carrying a stick.

 

Me too!
I'm glad it's not just me who can't stand lemon meringue pie.
Like you, my aversion to this vile combination goes back to school dinners, when our fierce dinner lady would stand over you and make sure you ate every last mouthful before you were allowed to leave the canteen.

Wasps.
Probably something to do with standing on a wasp's nest as a child and getting seven stings at once!
Ever since then, they always give me the heebie-jeebies. As soon as one starts buzzing around anywhere near me I start flailing about like some demented idiot.
Didn't help when at work a few years back, whilst cutting a hedge, I had a wasp crawl up the inside of my trouser leg. It stung me once on the way up and kept going until it got inside my pants, where it stung me again.

Confined spaces.
In common with several others on here it seems. Wonder why this one crops up so often?

 

Don't wonder you have a 'thing' about wasps Trunky....
Maybe the 'confined spaces' keeps cropping up because we're gardeners and are used to being out in the open

 

The cows had calf's , that was the problem forgot to mention.

Spruce

 

When i was a kid my sister and a friend of ours found a wasps nest and started poking it with a stick - i was stood well back not getting involved. Next thing all the wasps came out really angry and started to sting the boy we were playing out with they went inside his clothes and everything...he was screaming histerical and ran back to his parents house and tried to run into the house but they wouldnt let him for the obvious fact that he was a walking swarm of wasps...they kept shouting at him to take of his clothes quick but he wouldnt coz he was far too shy instead he jut ran around in circles getting stung over and over by the wasps screaming. To this day it has to be one of the funniest things i have ever ever seen

The same little boy once almost drowned playin ducking-apples at halloween over at my families house my Mum had to rescue him from the sink LMAO that was the second funniest thing i ever seen...

And the third funniest thing i ever seen was when we were having a sleep over downstairs, me, him, and our sisters, and he thought he would show off by getting our cat (our once wild cat that had a reputaion for attacking dogs) and putting it in his sleeping bag and tying it up...WITH HIM IN IT TOO LMAO...Actualy that was more funny than the wasp time. The cat was fine btw although i cant say the same for the boy i can still hear that sound to this day oh how he regretted that one

 

Hydro, they day will come when you're a bit older, when the memory of your young mate screaming in pain and terror in a life threatening situation, no longer seems like one of the funniest things ever.

 

Oh i hope not Clueless i really hope not!

 

I used to work at a dairy farm many moons ago .

We were told not to be too hands on with the calves (part of my main duties was to look after them) . If over tame/handled as calves, when older they woudnt think twice of charging you and had no fear of humans just the opposite in fact And have saw that on many occasions .
I remember Paul O'Grady saying his pet cow had tried to jump up on him and nearly crushed him in the process.
, bullocks are not as aggresive as they have had the bits cut off (normaly).

Sheep can be nasty as well my mates dad on the hills of Wales got butted by a ram and broke his ribs and stuck up on a mountain a hour from home was scary in winter.

So I treat all farm animals with caution always have done and keep close to the fence rather than in the middle , if a public highway the farmer is liable.

Spruce