Originally Posted by
EarlVanDorn
I walked up on some land that was for sale once and got "charged" by a herd of cows. Scared me silly. I'm convinced they saw a human and thought it was feeding time. May have been the same with you.
This is true. Hand feeding is not unusual, even when the paddocks are lush green. The hay provides roughage. Hand feeding does, of course, mean the cattle recognise the accoutrements associated with it such as the sound of a tractor on the other side of a hill, and a person who is rolling out the bale.