yeah , i always had images of sheep been marched form paddock to paddock in orderly single file there .
when i was around 10yo , i used to go and stay on a dairy farm for some of the school holidays . The farm was split in 2 by the main turnk railway , and access to the other side was by an underpass under the railway .
Every morning after milking we would wait for the overnight passenger train to go through , before taking the cows under it . every morning , the farmer would tell me the story ( old farmers tend to have alot of stories, especially to explain to 10yo 's why a cow might mount the back of another cow , they don't like having wet front feet apparently ) of what happened the time he was taking a herd of bobby calves under when a freight train came over . chaos apparently , but nothing hurt .
I also learn't chaos ensues when you let 11 cows into one side of a 10 a side milking shed , a few went unmilked that morning .
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