Cow in round bale feeder

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dutch pride

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We have a cow that likes to climb into our round bale feeder. She gets her front legs in and gets her ribs through and then is stuck. She cannot back out so we have to get her all he way in and then back out. Anyone have this and have a solution for it other than sending said cow down he road?  Thanks
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oakview

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We had a bull that liked to pick up the bale feeder with his head and "capture" the other bull in his pen.  The grandkids got the biggest kick out of watching that.  I

If someone can figure out why cattle do what they do, let me know.  Why would your cow stand in the water tank?  Maybe because it's hot.  Why do cattle stick their heads through gates and then can't get them out?  Why is there always one calf that likes to eat out of the feed bunk with their front feet in it?  Why do show calves always think their neighbor's feed pan looks better, even if it't the same feed?  How do cows know the second an electric fence has a short in it?  Why is there air?   
 

Lucky_P

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Have at least one heifer who likes to stand with her front legs in the big tire waterers.  She's probably the one that keeps breaking the float handles.

Left one of the poly round bale feeders flipped up out in the pasture behind the house this spring.  Looked out one afternoon to see that they'd knocked it over, trapping a cow inside.  She was running along with her head & neck out between the top two bars for a while, then managed to flip it up and got to running all over the pasture- looked almost like a hamster in an exercise wheel - with the whole rest of the herd chasing her all over the pasture until it hung up on something and she managed to get out.  Wish I'd had a video camera!
 
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