I'll bet the ranch owner would like to catch them doing that. Hunting around cattle is just the way it is. I would fence off the feeder to keep the damage to a minimum, and enjoy the hunt. I dont move my cattle to the other pasture during deer season, and I always have success.

I don't think I can see myself shooting someone else's cows. Knowing my luck I would probably kill it.

knowing what I know now...I would have put up cattle panels long ago..if you plan on feeding protien..they will wreck their way in..if the pen is not a good one..just sayin..they are a big problem..

I used 6 16' x 50" panels on each feeder to keep them out. No problems after that.

BluVenom, I didn't read all the post on here about the cows and hunting but I can tell you for sure that cow cannot pick corn off the ground. Will they try? I'm sure and in doing so they can and will damage feeders. I raise cows and they cannot graze next to the ground like goats and sheep.

They might be able to graze if the ground looks like this

Guys on our lease use 36" hog panels. This takes care of cows and the hogs at our deer feeders. We do however have a couple of feeders unfenced dedicated just to hog hunting. 8 yrs. on lease and we havn't had a cow get into the deer feeders yet.

So in order to reassure and answer an accusation I received via pm I.was joking about hunting cows. I never have and never will shoot a cow.

I beg to differ. Never had a cattle problem until this year. Property owner missed planting fields with oats this year. No feed fot the cattle. They have busted 2 feeder pens, snapped t-posts off at the ground. If they are hungry, they will get in. I'm building 8 ft. panels all corner welded, cattle panels attached to them and running kickers inside so they can not push them over. Sinking 6" drill stem on the corners with t-posts in between and attaching it all with u-bolts.

I guess you could use a slingshot to scare them away from our feeder

in the same pasture...




any given morning at daylight you can make a round checking fence and calves and see 50-100 deer.

HA!

The blunts on arrows works but a buddy told me about a bad incident he had. No permanent damage so to speak but it did get a little penetration. I did it a few times many years ago with an old 200fps bow at 25 or 30 yards and it was effective but wouldn't take the chance with today's equipment.

jumping out of the bushes with a gilly suit works pretty well. scares the crap out of them

unless they have a calf hid around there, then you will be looking for a tree you can climb

ask my wife who thinks it's a good idea to take a walk through the pasture during calving season.

We keep panels around our feeders now. Our cows broke through the 3 row barbed wire fences we made. The deer jump in the pen, get their fill and jump out. As fas as getting cows away from the feeder, sling shots work well of you are close enough. BB/pellet guns work good too.

I like it when you are hunting and they just get right in front of you and stand for like..... 2 hours.

our cattle would look at ur three strands of loose barbed wire, and laugh as they pushed it right over....

but our cattle are a lil crazy.... once they figure out they can get food in there, its hard to stop em...

hell, i had hog panels all the way around with a barbed wire on top, they destroyed, and i mean DESTROYED my pen,a nd my feeder, one day ill go down there to take some pics... just havent had the heart to put it all back together.

My hunters never fence any of their corn feeders and they have no problems with the cattle. We do have a major hog problem and their feeders are well secured to prevent damage from rooting/rubbing hogs. On the other hand, I fence all of my protein feeders with cattle panels with jump slots cut in a couple of places. To a cow, protein is protein. Antlermax is as good as anything else and with a feeder, it just keeps on coming and coming and coming... Occasionally, you will find a cow that does like the whole corn but normally, they ignore it. Maybe its the piles of pig poop around the feesder? :-) Of course, if we don't get more rain then we have had in the last few months,anything that doesn't move may be fair game to my cattle. I started culling the herd this week because of a lack of food.
Sometimes common sense can alleviate problems in trying to hunt around cattle. Deer have bedding areas and cattle have similar areas that they bed, loaf, etc. It may be near a water source or it may be in an area protected from the wind, etc. Probably not a good place to put up a blind and a feeder. Shoo cow, I am putting up a blind right where you are laying!!!!

Holsteins like to tromp through campfires... many of them eat the ash.

Never figured out why.

the farm i am allowed to hog hunt they dont hunt deer. they have only 15 head of cattle. i think if there is history on the property. meaning, the cattle weren't recently introduced, you should be find. some of my video's have cows and deer feeding within 15-20 yards of each other.

I think people have more trouble with livestock than deer do. They don't all mix and its better without them. I'd just fence your feeders to save money.

I have never pinned my feeders, I suggest that you take a bag of range cubes or a few bales of hay to keep them where you want them while you are hunting.

Just know that if a cow really wants in your pen and all you have is a few loose strands of barbed wire or hog panels, it will get in there.

They don't seem to bother Does on our place, coons either.