Thread: Shake up

Good write up. About a minute or two before the big shake here all our calves started mooing making a real racket, they are about 600 meters from the house but could hear them going nuts. Also interesting is that our dairy cows went bonkers during the shake, then they promptly all sat down, it's pretty eerie seeing a whole herd of 600 cows sitting down, sometimes when they are all full and happy you will see the majority of them sitting but there's always a few standing up so to see them all sitting down is very odd behaviour. After we got them all to the shed and milking it was business as usual although they did freak out and scatter a few times when aftershocks hit, I think being confined on a concrete yard was amplifying the effects of the shocks and they didn't really like it. Interesting also to note that after a few days of aftershocks they wern't phased at all by them.