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Now is an amazing time to go for walks... it's sunny, but not too
hot, and all the wildlife is out and about... including bad-tempered
livestock. Cows aren't so bad, but bullocks and bulls tend not to
enjoy humans being in the same field, and, especially at this time of
year, are quite agressive
about it.
Unfortunately, this means that it's quite hard to avoid coming across
a bullock field when out for a walk - every time I seem to have
figured out where they are, they are moved to a different field for
better grazing.
My idea is to put a tool on Google Earth whereby farmers can record
the position of their cattle - fields would be marked red for bulls/
bullocks, and yellow for cows. This is good because the animals
aren't disturbed, and walkers know which fields to avoid.
Maybe you could get past by sticking to the southern edge of the field
http://www.newscien...--says-google-.html
Google has been watching the cows for some time... [fridge duck, May 24 2009]
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should certainly help the UFOs for those cow mutilations. |
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I don't know where you are, cloud, but around here we use fences to keep people out of livestock fields. Seems to work out pretty well for all parties involved. |
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Most of the public footpaths round here go through cow
fields, and you're
not meant to go into other fields to avoid them... |
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I'm guessing that [cloud] is in England. Here in the U S of A, we can't walk in cow pastures . . . hell, we can hardly walk at all. [+] |
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Fields are much bigger in the US as well and called ranches or something. On moving to the US they probably screwed up the whole metres to inches conversion, leading to cattle farms the size of a small state. Bunch of cowboys if you ask me. |
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It's mostly for safety and security. Fences keep livestock from
wandering onto other people's lands, and people who jump a fence
and ignore the signs saying 'private property: no trespassing' can't
sue the owner of the bull that gores them. |
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One of the nicest things about England is the Public Footpath system |
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You mean America doesn't have one? Weird... |
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No, I do live in the UK, and keep having to make interesting
detours [namely jumping over fences and walking down
streams] to avoid my bovine friends. |
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