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Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/17/11 05:13 PM
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Jacob645
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There are three cows that have wandered onto our lease. They are now tipping over my big Tripod corn feeder. Aside from making steaks, anything I can do to stop it? I'd stake it down but it doesn't have feet. Do they sell a foot kit maybe? These cows almost destroyed my brand new motor and the barrel is bent now!
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: Jacob645]
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10/17/11 05:14 PM
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treeman
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/17/11 05:15 PM
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Justin T
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Cheap way that may or may not work is to get 2 foot pieces of rebar and wire the legs to the rebar. Expensive way if to get t-post and cattle/hog panels.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: Jacob645]
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10/17/11 05:19 PM
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Rustler
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Drive T posts or 1/2" rebar down as far as you can beside the legs then hose clamp or wire the legs to them. Besides building a pen around the feeder nothing is gonna completely stop them cows now they've found the free corn.
Call the sheriff and report the trespassing cows somebody may be looking for them or don't know they're missing yet.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: Justin T]
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10/17/11 05:19 PM
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Navasot
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build a pen around your feeder, you can use hog pannels or if its just cows ur worried about drive tpost and put up a few strands of barbdwire, make it resanable size so all corn stays inside of the pen
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: Navasot]
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10/17/11 05:21 PM
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Navasot
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I always steak down my feeder with tpost also but this can make the problem worse with cows...they will bend the legs and eventually just break the whole thing,
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/17/11 05:22 PM
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trapperjustin
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/17/11 05:52 PM
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Curly
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Maybe you need to get revenge by going cow tipping one night. Show them how it feels.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: Curly]
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10/17/11 06:36 PM
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kyle1974
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cow tipping..... now the cows are getting back.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/17/11 06:39 PM
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rifleman
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given any thought to one of them stashing a calf around your deer stand and you figuring it out before daylight.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: Curly]
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10/17/11 06:41 PM
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Maybe you need to get revenge by going cow tipping one night. Show them how it feels.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/18/11 04:51 PM
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I got down there this weekend to find that one of my feeders had been destroyed. We have 25 cows on the lease year round and I knew it but they had never messed with anything so I didn't think it would start now. Everybody out there has pins around their feeder but I fell in love with a spot and didn't get a chance to put one up! Completely my fault and will be building a pin this weekend!
You can run but you can't hide...
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: CRAnderson52]
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10/18/11 06:00 PM
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Gemlin
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I always build pens around my feeders. I've had feeders knocked over in the past.
I just put up three strands of barbed wire.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/18/11 06:19 PM
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Bill Waldschmidt
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I always build pens around my feeders. I've had feeders knocked over in the past.
I just put up three strands of barbed wire. +1
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: Bill Waldschmidt]
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10/18/11 08:56 PM
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City boy mistake....you will get better if you last.
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
[Re: scattergun]
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10/18/11 10:25 PM
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Jacob645
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City boy mistake....you will get better if you last. What is that supposed to mean?
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Re: Cows keep tipping over my feeder!
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10/18/11 10:32 PM
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we found that instead of building pens the cows would leave the feeders alone if they couldnt get to the motor box..So everyone now had 8 foot legs..they dont bother them at all...
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