Runaway cow returns to barn after nearly a week on the loose in N.B.
RUSAGONIS, N.B. — A wayward cow is back in the barn after almost a week on the run in New Brunswick.
Beef farmer Wayne Morgan says he was corralling his cattle from a pasture area on Oromocto Island, about 20 kilometres southeast of Fredericton, when the tan-coloured cow swam off from the herd into the Saint John River.
“We turned her back (around) the first time with a motor boat, so we thought we had her,” Morgan says. “Before we could get the gate closed … she decided to swim and that time she made it across.”
Morgan says the roughly 600-kilogram animal paddled to an island in the Lincoln area, where she roamed until Friday morning when she was caught and driven back to her stable in Rusagonis.