Cow problem

[Dirtymike]

My father in law owns the land and let the neighbor put cows on our place due to no water (before all this rain). Talked to the cow guy and fil about it and he leased cow rights to him for the year. Not happy about it but I can’t do anything about it now. I’m thinking about stringing some barb wire about a 3-4 acre area around the set ups about waist high and use mesquite trees as the t-post. Has anyone tried that and would it work?

Is the cow man neighboring land owner? If so see if you can get him to put them on his place while you hunt. The guy leasing grazing rights at my FIL sees me drive up and starts calling his cattle over cause he knows i run them off and hunt over there.

[44mAG]

Yep I hate cows. On our family place, we spent a couple grand on new 40" tall deer pen panels and put up around all of our feeders. The cows jump them like they are not even there to eat our deer protein. Crazy. Forced us to stop feeding protein.

[mikemorvan]

Cattle are the devil sometimes. I've tried feeding them, etc. I've put out hay as far away from my setup as i reasonably could. Costly, but works about the best. Especially if you can park the truck close by the hay location and walk to your stand from there. Good luck.

[IvoryRoot]

Hot wire would be the easiest.

[drenaline65]

He just leases the neighboring place for cattle too. Was hoping he would move them back over after all this rain but instead he bought more to put on that place. Very frustrating when your trying to manage a place that’s got great potential just to have cows ruin everything. There’s old cross fences but are torn down in places or not complete. This is the first year he’s having us manage it. After season there’s going to be new roads built and cross fences built. It’s 640 acres and cow pens are in the front but cows like to hangout in the very back by one my best spots. They don’t really mess with the corn that I put out on outside of feeders but they like to be around the hunting spots for some reason. Punched 2 of them in the nose last night cause they kept nudging the blind with their nose.

[drenaline65]

Wouldn’t hot wire spook deer if they get hit by it?

[dustoffer]

Sling shot and rocks work good or Red Rider

I go to my local pistol range and go to the dirt backstop and dig/pick up bullets and I use them instead of rocks---.38 lead slugs must smart, especially if you shoot 'em low in the flank in front of their hind leg, the scrotum, or the cow's bag. They leave in a hurry, and doesn't take long for them to take off, tails in the air when I walk in if they are around.

[Kmart49]

You could always make a 3 strand pen around your bow hunting area to keep them further away from your blind. I think trying to do this over a large area would be a waste but you could use the trees and just give yourself a large enough area to keep the cows plenty far away. Make a gate so you're to be able to still drive through to fill your feeder and what not.

[rjtkdplus]

Wouldn’t hot wire spook deer if they get hit by it?

No. I've had success with a hot wire, single strand barbed wire and panels (Had failure with all of them too). Be sure to make your pen big enough so that your blind is on the inside.

[Tryton]

Cattle are the devil sometimes. I've tried feeding them, etc. I've put out hay as far away from my setup as i reasonably could. Costly, but works about the best. Especially if you can park the truck close by the hay location and walk to your stand from there. Good luck.

Iv'e done this. Dumped range cubes close to where I park my truck and then walk to the stand while they are eating. They seem to hang around the truck afterwards.

[ramrod]

Build a good fence around your feeder large enough that absolutely no corn gets past. Cows shouldn't have much interest after that. Deer jump fences everyday to get where they want to go.

[cj7zrcool]

Build a good fence around your feeder large enough that absolutely no corn gets past. Cows shouldn't have much interest after that. Deer jump fences everyday to get where they want to go.

This. If they're not getting any corn, they usually won't stay long.

[flywise]

I honk my horn a few times and in 10 min every cow on the place is at the truck
Drop a little corn for them and your good to go.
Sometimes I get out of the stand and chase them off.

[darralld]

How much property are we talking here? We hunt 320 acres. The west side is open the east side is trees. We ran two hot wires along the trees from one end to the other & it works great for keeping the cows out of the timber. Hot wire would be your best option.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Most effective way to "train" dummarsse cattle I've ever used is to put a fender washer (about 1" diameter) on the end of some junk arras using a standard 10-24 screw instead of a point... When the cows come into your set up, let 'em have it in the rib cage or flank with that fender washer... A couple times getting their "ring-leader" like that, and they won't come near your feeder/stand area... Plus it's kind a' fun!! It is especially fun if you start this before bow season and practice your spot n stalk technique on 'em... After a few sessions of that, when they see you, that'll be all that's necessary for them to change counties quick, fast and in a hurry!!