Interesting essay but I don’t think that cattle guards are ‘bars laid over a trench to trip up escaping cows’. I think they are, usually, a set of round bars or pipes that are inset into the ground at gates that hinder cattle because cattle don’t like to walk on the rounded surfaces which are unsteady for hooved feet.
Interesting essay but I don’t think that cattle guards are ‘bars laid over a trench to trip up escaping cows’. I think they are, usually, a set of round bars or pipes that are inset into the ground at gates that hinder cattle because cattle don’t like to walk on the rounded surfaces which are unsteady for hooved feet.
Interesting essay but I don’t think that cattle guards are ‘bars laid over a trench to trip up escaping cows’. I think they are, usually, a set of round bars or pipes that are inset into the ground at gates that hinder cattle because cattle don’t like to walk on the rounded surfaces which are unsteady for hooved feet.
Mainly today, the guards are merely painted white lines, spaced, and the cow sees a danger where their hoof would go into and break a leg.