On the moo-ve: almost 30 cows and a bull on the run near Allan, Sk.

A herd of cows is on the loose after escaping from a farm over 60 kilometres south of Saskatoon, near Allan.

Daryl Brown said 27 heifers and one bull escaped from his pasture early last week.

“I checked them Monday night at seven o’clock, and they were all in there and fine. And then Wednesday morning, a neighbour up there calls me and says three of the heifers are across the road in another pasture of ours. The gate was open, and so 27 of them and the bull have gone out through the gate,” said Brown.

Brown said it’s odd there was little indication of where they went, saying normally 30 animals would leave quite the tracks behind.

“It was a steel-latch type of gate, and they must’ve rubbed on it. It was tied down with twine, and they must’ve broke the twine and flipped it up … It seems kind of strange that they got all that done, but they did,” said Brown.

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Brown said they are in the middle of haying and can’t drive through the fields without damaging the crops, making it harder to look for the cows.

“We’ve been looking for them all week off and on. We bought a drone, and we’re searching the area with that. Heifers can travel a long way… It was windy for two or three days, so that could drive them quite a ways,” said Brown.

Brown said of the almost thirty that went missing, they’ve found four.

“Three (were) across the road, and one was in a neighbour’s pasture,” shared Brown.

“We’re just looking randomly,” said Brown. “We have nothing. We don’t even know what direction they went. They could’ve gone any direction as far as we know.”

Although they’ve been gone for almost a week, Brown isn’t concerned about their chance of survival.

“They’ll be fine… They’re a little older than yearling calves… There’s lots of grazing, there’s lots of water in the sloughs… They’ll be fine as far as that goes,” said Brown.

Brown said they’ll continue to look for the cows and they hope to find them before harvest.

“If somebody finds them, call me,” said Brown.