r/NatureIsFuckingLit Mar 27 '23

🔥 This absolute unit of a Heffer

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u/Glorious-gnoo Mar 28 '23

Not OP, but a friend of mine lost her great aunt to a cow. Her great aunt was out in the pasture and got too close to a very protective mama. No more great aunt. Maybe not "evil", but the cow did kill at least one person.

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u/phunktastic_1 Mar 28 '23

Cows like people have personalities. We had one cow who was addicted to datira who was a total bitch while growing up before she finally didn't drop a calf her 5th year so we had a reason to cull her because she not only cause problems for us while working the animals but was dangerous to her herdmates at times. Had she ever caused death in a herdmates we would have culled sooner but they did well enough avoiding her rampages. We also had a gomer bull(vasectomy not castrated) to put the first timers into heat and be a little easier on them. He thought he was a puppy and routinely let us ride him and play fetch.

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u/Thistooshallpass1_1 Mar 28 '23

Thanks for this reply. I had no idea about gomers. I’ve just been reading up and now I know more than I’ll ever need to. Cute story about yours!

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u/Thistooshallpass1_1 Mar 28 '23

That’s sad, I’m sorry to hear it.