KICKING COWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1198, 2 March 1880, Page 3

KICKING COWS.

The Ohio Farmer gives the following remarks in re kicking cows: — "Whenever you feel that you are losing your temper, let go of the teats, and get quietly up and set your bucket away. Go out in the yard and get someone to pump while you hold your head under the spout. A cow seems to posssess a strange duplicate nature If treated with firmness, she immediately responds with unifoi'm intelligent good behaviour. If she is treated with fondness one day and abused the next, if she is allowed one t day to take any stall she likes and come into the stable when she gets ready, and the next day is run into the stable with a stick and pulled out of two or three stalls until she gets into the one you wish her in,, she will be contrary enough to run you crazy. Have you never heard a mother who has been absent from her nursing child for several hours complain that her breast was painful and tender ? This is the condition of the cow when she comes up to be milked. Her udder is not only tender, but it seems in some way connected with her nervous organization, which makes her slightly sensitive to pain and fear. A cow should receive the same uniformly firm treatment every day of her life, and her habits soon conform to the daily routine. The complaints of kicking cows generally come from fanners who own but two or three cows, and not from those who make a business of handling them. There are, I suppose occasional confirmed kickers, who have no business in any respectable herd, and those should be turned into beef immediately."

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