headed back to eat.

rustred · Jan 25, 2023

this is after their drink, how come cows always walk in the same path.?

SweetFeet · Jan 25, 2023

The path of least resistance???

Easier to walk where someone else has trod. I will walk in my husbands's footprints on the way to the garage.

Kow Farmer · Jan 25, 2023

Great picture sir. Yes, herd animals always follow along same path. Strange? Yes. Kow Farmer

rustred · Jan 25, 2023

he knows whos gonna fill his shoes , lol.

SweetFeet · Jan 25, 2023

LOL

Brings to mind a great song.

d13series1 · Jan 26, 2023

They will walk along a constant grade. And once a path be
comes habit they don't like to change.

Grazing is more random but ours had the same path to go over the hill to get to the ditch. Haven't had cows for 20 years and there still a rut where they walked.

Fixingfarmer · Jan 26, 2023

Follow lead cow. They will change a path but only if pecking order changes or change in landscape requires. There are two paths 5 foot apart in our pasture all the way across. One from the old lead cow 5 foot from the new path

db4600 · Jan 26, 2023

Something not seen anymore as there are few cows on pasture. At home the trails started beyond the barn, past the cow humps by the low ground pond, and branched out to all corners of the pasture. They had worn a 4-lane through the grove out to the cattle pass which took them to the lower pasture/ meadow. The upper pasture had a network of single lanes up over the hill through the woods and also out west through the low ground.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 26, 2023

Same reason you drive on a road,a lot easier.Why not feed them closer to the water?

Jim in NC · Jan 26, 2023

Perhaps because the ground is packed, and their footing is much better.

Fred Werring · Jan 26, 2023

Yeah, got a bunch of cow ruts in my fields.

jddrawbar · Jan 26, 2023

I remember plowing with a JD D and when you hit a cow trail the exhaust note would go up!

r.w.b. · Jan 26, 2023

and remember this IF YOUR NOT THE LEAD COW ,THE VIEW NEVER CHANGES

headed back to eat.

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