SHE had one cow in the barn that had a calf several days earlier...She was walking through the barn to get out to the pasture and that old cow came after her, full speed. She was hit so hard in the upper thigh, the muscle and flesh flatten out and never did get back to norm. When the cow backed off her to get another running ram, it gave her time to exit the barn. She said it was clearly her own fault, she knew the cow and calf were in the barn but made the mistake of walking between the cow and her calf....Even after raising animals for years, all it takes is not thinking about what you are doing for a split second
I read an article in the Milwaukee-Journal/Sentinel some years back about a similar incident. A columnist for the paper ran a hobby farm not too far from where I live and wrote articles about farming for the paper. One time he was out in the pasture attending to a calf, and mama cow thought he was doing something objectionable to her little darling. She charged the guy and knocked him a.. over teakettle as the saying goes. The next day she was on the truck to market.