It's surprising what they can do with those horns. Alan Cameron's older bull. McDuff, is a glutton for head scratching and coo treats. You walk up to the pen and here he comes, puts his head up against the bars and waits to have his head scratched. If you go around to the side where Alan keeps a bucket of range cubes for the kids to feed him. He sticks his muzzle through the bars and hold his tongue out. So, last year at one of our Texas festivals,,,the coo treat bucket gets empty and Alan takes it and walks off toward the parking lot to get more. Worse yet from McDuff's point of view,,there was nobody coming to his pen to do head scratching!! Not At All Acceptable! Pro-active measures are required. He goes over to the side of his pen closest to where he can see some "head scratchers". Puts his horns through the bars, lifts his head till that whole side of the pen is off the ground, and walks slowly toward the humans. By the time Alan gets back McDuff had moved the pen, and the two yearling heifers in it with him, better than thirty yards across the venue. He and Alan had a long discussion about whither McDuff was going to take the pen back to where it belonged. Alan lost, ended up having to dismantle the pen and drag the panels back to their space and reassemble it. McDuff had the last word however. All the commotion attracted so much attention that he had a steady supply of head scratchers and treat providers for the rest of the afternoon. R -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of stephen davie Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Shipping Kye from Graemsay.. Photo.The Boat Great Photo Sian: This amazing photo explains in a flash why highland cattle would not be the preferred species. One confused animal could easily spear that fragile wee boat with the horns, and the whole fold would end up in the drink. Had to wonder how old this photo was. Very nice!...Stephen ody of the message

What a great story - love it !!! Isabella ----- Original Message ----- From: Royce Perry <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:24 am Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Shipping Kye from Graemsay.. Photo.The Boat To: [email protected] > It's surprising what they can do with those horns. Alan > Cameron's older > bull. McDuff, is a glutton for head scratching and coo treats. > You walk up > to the pen and here he comes, puts his head up against the bars > and waits to > have his head scratched. If you go around to the side where Alan > keeps a > bucket of range cubes for the kids to feed him. He sticks his > muzzle through > the bars and hold his tongue out. So, last year at one of our Texas > festivals,,,the coo treat bucket gets empty and Alan takes it > and walks off > toward the parking lot to get more. Worse yet from McDuff's  > point of > view,,there was nobody coming to his pen to do head scratching!! > Not At All > Acceptable! Pro-active measures are required. He goes over to > the side of > his pen closest to where he can see some "head scratchers". Puts > his horns > through the bars, lifts his head till that whole side of the pen > is off the > ground, and walks slowly toward the humans. By the time Alan > gets back > McDuff had moved the pen, and the two yearling heifers in it > with him, > better than thirty yards across the venue. He and Alan had a > long discussion > about whither McDuff was going to take the pen back to where it > belonged.Alan lost, ended up having to dismantle the pen and > drag the panels back to > their space and reassemble it. McDuff had the last word however. > All the > commotion attracted so much attention that he had a steady > supply of head > scratchers and treat providers for the rest of the afternoon. > R > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:orcadia- > [email protected]] On > Behalf Of stephen davie > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Shipping Kye from Graemsay.. Photo.The Boat > > Great Photo Sian: > > This amazing photo explains in a flash why highland cattle would > not  > be the preferred species. One confused animal could easily spear > that  > fragile wee boat with the horns, and the whole fold would end up > in  > the drink. Had to wonder how old this photo was. > Very nice!...Stephen > ody of the message > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Isabella