Cattle and Game Cameras

[Pope]

Anaya tricks to avoid wasting shots on cattle? Our LO leased the grazing rights and I want to avoid shots of cattle.

[MasonCo.]

pens

[60 Deluxe]

High capacity SD cards are the way to go. Sometimes you are going to get shots of cattle, but in my experience, it is incidental unless they somehow get access to a feeder.
It doesn't take long to scroll past cow pictures. If you start seeing a ton of cow pictures from one camera, that is a tip off not to hunt that location. Something has drawn them there and they will continue to come back until whatever it is that they have found is gone.

[Throwin Darts]

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[Dusty Britches]

Game cameras are designed to detect movement, so no. But, if you see a lot of cows on a camera there could be something wrong. In my case, it is usually a fence is down.

Deer will return quickly after the cows are moved out. Not that day, but in a day or two.

[deerwatcher51]

I have never found it to be a big issue.

[BTLowry]

Move camera to another location if the cows are favoring where you have it

Unless you have cows and no feeder pens, then build pens

I just moved a camera that I put out in the woods because the cows were the only thing coming by that spot. No deer and surprisingly no pigs either, just cows.

[Pope]

What if the cows are on the other side of the pen? I’m also going to run a cellular camera and the data is the waste I worried about.

[TX_Hoghunter]

What if the cows are on the other side of the pen? I’m also going to run a cellular camera and the data is the waste I worried about.

Your only other option is to buy your own land and not put any cattle on it. Other than that you are going to get some pictures of cows.

-john

[Low Fence]

Put camera where deer travel and remove/don’t use bait. Still get a few but minimum

[Big pig]

Sometimes our cows are just moving thru along the Cattle trail. Maybe placing your camera where it doesn’t face that trail will Help.
We have pens so we get some shots in the background, but not enough to bother me

[tbgascorer]

High capacity SD cards are great. When trail cameras first came out, I wasted many a 24-36 exposure film rolls on nothing but cow shots. Swap rolls of film, replace batteries, drive 45 minutes one way to Eckerds for one hour photo. Eat lunch in town and then go flip through 36 pictures of cows circling the feeder pen. LOL
AND....I have an 87lb box of doe pictures stashed in my garage somewhere. Man, how times have changed...

[BTLowry]

What if the cows are on the other side of the pen? I’m also going to run a cellular camera and the data is the waste I worried about.

Aim it toward the area least likely to have cows passing by I guess?

Hang up higher (in tree or make something out of PVC,lumber, etc) and mount it higher up angled down?

First two ideas that popped into my head. Without knowing your setup, hard to say

[castlegaphunter]

Pens. Or an sd card that holds a ton of pics. no other reasonable way around it.

[Gunnyart]

I can't help you avoid getting pics of them but if you have cattle I can help keep them from tearing them up. TPostMount.com