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Last Updated: Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 16:40 GMT 17:40 UK

Stranded cliff cows are airlifted

The cows were sedated to make sure they did not panic
A herd of stranded cows has been airlifted to safety in Cornwall after getting trapped down a cliff.
The 12 animals became stuck after managing to make their way at least 80ft (25m) down the cliff at Pen Enys Cove, west of St Ives, on Sunday.

Because of the steep terrain, ground rescue teams were not able to get them to walk back up the cliff.

Coastguards at Falmouth asked to have a SeaKing helicopter from RNAS Culdrose airlift the animals.

Animals sedated

The cows had been grazing on heathland before wandering off down the cliff.

They were lifted one at a time by the aircraft. The cattle were sedated first to ensure they did not panic.

Three fire crews from St Ives and Camborne helped to release the cows from the helicopter after they were brought back to the top of the cliff. The cows were then herded back to where they belong.

The farmer, a vet and RSPCA inspectors were also on the scene.
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Reading this reminds me of some of the darndest places a cow can get,I came home the other day to find one on her back in a water trough,like to have never got her out,amazing how a cow fits snugly upside down in 3'x8' trough.what's the strangest place you have seen a cow go ?...........good luck
 
In the house,bet that was fun LOL....If I graze my middle pastures,they will walk right in the shop,once I was on the computer look up and one was standing next to me LOL,I like gentle cattle but not that gentle :D ......good luck
 
LOL they wern't gentle. We had our house almost complete other than layin carpet and trim. They (about 6 of em) somehow pushed the door open, and then back shut, and commenced to runnin thru the house. There was green on the wallsssssss....on the ceilin in places.....all over the floor, they ended up leavin out the kitchen window that had been left up. All it did was bend the window screen. But I'd already painted everything. When our son came out here, and then back to the other house to tell us, he says, "Mama, come look, it's baddddd" I kinda laffed and said, "oh it can't be that bad"........he said, "just come look" I got here, with Mr Lilly followin about 2 minutes behind me. He found me standin at the front door with it opened, and I was laffin. He said, "That **** aitn funny" I said, "no it's not, but if I don't laff about it, I'm gonna cry about it" So we went to work. Hauled out 3 wheel barrow loads of cow poop from my livinroom dinin room and kitchen area. Then cleaned the concrete with some stuff that the veterinarians use...LOL INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH!!!!! Ever thang worked out, but I had alot of repaintin to do before we could lay carpet and move in.
 
I had a huge, sweet gentle bull once whom we literally had to cut out of a poplar tree once.

We called up all the cattle.....but no bull. So I got to walking and found him at the edge of the woods. Seems he'd been scratchin' his " undercarriage" on a small poplar tree. I guess it was about 8" around and as he scratched he seemed to have bent the tree over , under his belly and worked his way up it.

By the time I got to him...he was just standing there with the most helpless look on his face, embarassed really and pleading " Help me"

He was wrapped up in the skinny limbs and the tree had tried to spring back up underneath him & he could not move, he was stuck BIG TIME. So about 10 minutes with the chainsaw and he was free. He walked back to the cows muttering and talking to himself.
 
Saw a bull once wedged between some rolls of hay on top of the 3rd layer.
He had worn himself completely out and was mad as heck too!

All you could see was his head sticking out.

Moved about 10 rolls and he came tumbling down.
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
In MY HOUSE :shock: Yeap........that's what I said.
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Well I WAS goin to tell story of loosin my bull a few yrs back in square bale stack-phonin neighbors lookin for.Still hearing about that?BUT now I can rest easy-can't match them stories!
 
In the power lines on Watterson creek in Bastrop county Texas, Christmas flood of 91. Cow was about 50 ft off the ground when water receded. never saw anything like it. I was workin for a vet catching injured stock after the floods and saw some wierd stuff.
 
Most aggravationg place I have found a cow was in a hay stack... Doesn't sound all that wierd but I searched and searched for that cow, couldn't find her, was convinced she had gotten out and was walking in the corn field across the street. Talked to about a dozen neighbors and some of their harvest employeses telling them to be on the look out for her during harvest as it was coming up. Ended up that I was driving my quad across the old field that she was last seen in I caught a glimps of something out of the corner of my eye. Backed up, didn't see it and started to go again and there she was... Stuck back in the hay...She couldn't go forward but she sure could have backed out if she had half a brain. Got the loader tractor and tossed bales out of the way and out she stumbled. Walked her a 1/4 mile to water and she sat at that tank for a good long time. I think she would have died if it had been hotter or if we hadn't had a timely rain... I shudder to think how long she was stuck in there but I swear I checked that stack, I don't know how I missed her (Except to say that she is straw collored and the bales were hay Barley which is about the same color as her.)

This cow has given me nothing but grief. Has gotten her head stuck more places that I can imagine and I always bale her out... Lucky she is a friendly little gal or I wouldh ve to get ride of her, she isn't much to look at .

Beyond that I have had to pull cows out of a sandpoint pit, still don't know how they got there but they sure seem to enjoy the cool bath and destruciton that they caused.
 
Would have to be the seat of the pickup. One day the premie calf who was at least 4 months old went out with the milkcows. One of the guys brought him back to the house he was standing on the seat looking out the window. Hearing a man say Tiny you are not a dog!

Tiny walked right in the porch one day wanting fed and is also known to stand on the step and look in the front door.
 
Had one of the replacement heifers die less than a month ago. She was in a pasture and had placed her head between the fork of an oak tree. My father-in-law said it looked like maybe she was scratching herself and somehow wedged her neck in the fork and choked. Took a tractor to get her out of the tree. He had never had this happen before in the many years he has had cattle.
 

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