Newbie needs advice on owning a cow

greybeard said:

If one runs thru a fence, I can accept that--it happens occasionally -a jumper? Bye bye. He/she/it goes to sale barn with instructions: "kill pen".

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Have you never had a jumper? I had one last season, a Black Angus that had an udder problem. Big udder, starving calf. I tried to get her in the squeeze to try and milk her to see what the issue was. She jumped over the fence on the way to the squeeze. I couldn't believe it! Then that night we had to separate her because she was ill, we put her in the pasture right beside our herd, only division was a gate. She jumped over that gate then continued to jump 2 barbwire fences and ended on the highway!!! The cops came knocking on the door and everything. Was a nightmare. After that she just continued to jump fences every time there was an obstacle in her way. She got really banged up when she ended up on the highway. We tried to load her into at trailer to do exactly what you said, we couldn't keep her any longer. We ended up having to have her slaughtered right at the farm.