Cows moo-ing all night long

[sid]

[QUOTE=Pocket Pony;8374971]
Well, duh! Weaning is not something I thought of . . . we have a lot of neighbors with cows and one just had a calf a couple weeks ago, then the other neighbor’s cows calved in the summer but they were all shipped out already. I can’t see this neighbor’s cows, so I didn’t even think of the calves being weaned, but that is the most likely scenario.

Mr. PoPo herded some loose cows out of the street into their pasture (different neighbor) last week and none of those cows were calling out - but since they were on the other side of the fence but right next to each other, I guess no one was alarmed. The neighbors were right on top of it fixing that fence right away.

For this neighbor, we can see their corner from our corner, so Mr. PoPo walked over and had a look-see this morning to see if anything was out of the ordinary, and he saw two cows with a big bunch of hay and they were moo-ing back and forth with others that he couldn’t see, so I guess that weaning is probably what’s going on.

I feel like PoPo in the Silence of the Cows . . . “Can you hear the cows, Pocket Ponyyyyyyyy???”[/QUOTE]

The big farm adjoining has several hundred and during weaning time it can sound pretty pitiful all night. I feel like I’m dreaming about an old time western movie with a cattle drive scene. :lol:

[TrotTrotPumpkn]

[QUOTE=sid;8375237]
The big farm adjoining has several hundred and during weaning time it can sound pretty pitiful all night. I feel like I’m dreaming about an old time western movie with a cattle drive scene. :lol:[/QUOTE]

THIS.

I can’t believe I didn’t think weaning. Duh.

[ReSomething]

I remember the year we had all 40 however many of the neighbors escape onto our place, and a couple of them were there half the night. You would not believe that a 1500 pound huge animal can be 1) invisible and 2) absolutely silent, in the woods, but they sure were.

The calves would make little mep noises, and the cows would make little mep noises back. These were Limousin and crosses, they are roan colors and very hard to see. The lone Hereford stuck out like a sore thumb. If they’re used to people they love alfalfa cubes, but if they have horns, stay away! they’ll thump you but good.
sigh I like cows. I like beef too, it’s always a hard choice.

[goldenrow]

[QUOTE=ReSomething;8375283]
I like cows. I like beef too, it’s always a hard choice.[/QUOTE]

I love our cows, too, but I am always ready to send the 1600# steers off to become steak!

[Bluey]

Talking about mooing cattle.

One late September we were shipping big steers we had gathered out of the canyons and brush and put into the shipping trap by the house, to deliver next morning.
There were five trucks worth, about 320 steers.

That night around 2am I hear some odd noises and low mooing, look out the window and the yard is full of big steers, packed in there, security lights making that clear.

I wake everyone up and we debate if to call the trucks off, or see what happens if we go with a load of hay, how many will follow us thru the brush and back into their trap, without taking off back into the canyons.

We get the pickup and hay and start calling to feed.
The steers start playing and bucking and jostling for space behind the pickup, stealing a bite here and there of that hay, happily following.

I start walking around the house and barns, driving steers out, with a flashlight to see where I am going, hoping not to step on any rattlers, that should have been disturbed enough to go hole up for a while.
I follow the steers thru the brush on the sides of the road they are following after the pickup and shoo on any I find there.

We finally had all we could find in the trap, so put some hay out and left them, after roping very tight the gate post someone had rubbed on and broken in the night, how they got out.

Next morning it was foggy, we gathered what we could find there and drove them into the pens, looked like plenty were there and sure enough, all but 3 went on the trucks.
They counted them twice off the trucks, they could not believe we had them all after what happened.
We found the other three a week later, holed up way over in the end of a canyon.

Any time I hear mooing out of place, I think back to that night.

[horsepoor]

May not apply, as I don’t know if you get the bull frogs like we do, but is there a chance that is what you are hearing? They have started up here (neighbor has a pond and I think it finally is filling back up after the dry summer). I used to think, what neighbor got cows?! but now realize that it is the bull frogs calling - sounds like a bunch of cows mooing madly and often goes through the night. Just a thought, since I noticed them last night and remembered this thread.

[Callista17]

Great question! I have cows down the street and I do notice this too. I just thought they were probably ripping away their babies from them. (I know, but they look cute when I drive by and they are playing “king of the mountain”.)

[SuzieQNutter]

They call for 3 days when they are weaned. We are used to it now and don’t even hear it. Even though we only do it twice a year.

[SuzieQNutter]

They call for 3 days when they are weaned. We are used to it now and don’t even hear it. Even though we only do it twice a year.

[clanter]

[QUOTE=Bluey;8380691]
Talking about mooing cattle.

.[/QUOTE]

Bluey I expected better of you …its Lowing not Mooing

[Bluey]

[QUOTE=clanter;8383216]
Bluey I expected better of you …its Lowing not Mooing :D[/QUOTE]

Both are correct, according to dictionaries, so I use the more easily understood word:

—"moo

verb
gerund or present participle: mooing

make the characteristic deep vocal sound of a cow."—

—low2

verb
gerund or present participle: lowing
(of a cow) make a characteristic deep sound.

“the lowing of cattle”—

[drkarins]

Our neighbor’s cows seem to raise a nonstop-for-days solo cow ruckus when one is in heat. If it sounds like more than one, it’s usually weaning or separation.

When in heat, the offender will often meet me riding on the fence line and holler at me & my mare. Mare thinks it is absurd. (It is!)

The feeding noise is at predictable times in the AM & PM. At least here, they are well fed and mostly pets.