Jakumo:


During the dry season when smells linger on the dry ground for weeks, these chemical warfare ideas work much better.

Given the enormous scale of the crop damage inflicted by renegade cattle herdsmen and their hungry cows throughout Nigeria and the rest of West Africa, I fully expect there will quite a few very positive reports about the magical effectiveness of this non-confrontational, non-violent cattle-repellent technique, by way of efficacy testimony from farmers who read my recipe here in the Nairaland forums, and decide to give it a try.

If I could find a way to patent or copyright this simple and cheap idea, so as to reap profit from deploying the method in farms ready to pay high consultancy fees, believe me, I would not be detailing the procedure in a public online forum, but, since I see no way to make a fast buck protecting farms in far away Nigeria with my "Secret Ingredient X" modality, I can at least take pleasure in hearing about how delighted farmers are, to have found this easy way to kiss those invading cattle herds goodbye, peacefully and sneakily.

RisenPhoenix:


Not true. It doesn't work. Cattle blood might make them nervous, but not to that extent, and do you know how much blood it will take to adequately cover one acre of land only?

The best way is to fence your land with live fencing, or to approach the herder calmly (without undue aggressiveness) and tell him to move the cattle away from your farm. Most of the time, either the cattle go out of control, or the herdsmen don't know that there is a farm there.. I have farmlands and when I tell them to move their cattle, they usually do so shamefacedly. Contrary to most people's personal beliefs, they don't usually do it deliberately. Fights happen when you pick up your cutlass and start treatening them. We should learn to address others politely, even if they don't have PhDs like we do.

RisenPhoenix:


Not true. It doesn't work. Cattle blood might make them nervous, but not to that extent, and do you know how much blood it will take to adequately cover one acre of land only?

Fights happen when you pick up your cutlass and start treatening them. We should learn to address others politely, even if they don't have PhDs like we do.

ABCthings:
imaging share a country with such clueless individual. Why don't you just tell us that herdsmen are pacifist.

sylve11:

but arsenal will draw.

RisenPhoenix:


I am clueless because I don't follow the herd mentality while sitting behind my desk in an office and talking about what goes on in the rural areas?

The majority of actual herdsmen with herds of cattle don't go around looking for trouble. Most of them work for indigenes of the region, taking care of their cattle for pay.

internet:
Just spray snuff on the crop and plants. Any cow that inhales or eat the snuff will die immediately. Try it and see

don4real18:
That doesn't stop the herdsmen from using their cows to stamp through your fields thereby destroying the plants in the process

ABCthings:
while at night they go into those communities and massacre them

staga:
I was able to dig up a video on YouTube that seems to back up the OP's formulation. A cow tried to jump this farmer's fence and was injured. Other cows smelled the blood and they got disturbed. See how they run around without eating anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPXZZabsZaE

spinna:
Knowledge is power

RisenPhoenix:


Not true. It doesn't work. Cattle blood might make them nervous, but not to that extent, and do you know how much blood it will take to adequately cover one acre of land only?

The best way is to fence your land with live fencing, or to approach the herder calmly (without undue aggressiveness) and tell him to move the cattle away from your farm. Most of the time, either the cattle go out of control, or the herdsmen don't know that there is a farm there.. I have farmlands and when I tell them to move their cattle, they usually do so shamefacedly. Contrary to most people's personal beliefs, they don't usually do it deliberately. Fights happen when you pick up your cutlass and start treatening them. We should learn to address others politely, even if they don't have PhDs like we do.

RisenPhoenix:


The thing is... hate feeds on itself. We have had farmers, Fulani herdsmen and disputes since time immemorial. It is only recently that you see this hate, and it is driven more by tribal and religious bigotry than by an actual desire to save our farms.

To answer your question, farms are usually surrounded by bush where the cattle graze and when farmers say that their fatmlands were destroyed, they usually mean that cattle entered one corner of their farm and trampled a few rows or mounds. Some farms are overgrown by weeds, though when you hear the 'outraged' farmers talk about compensation later, you will think that it was a ten thousand acre mechanized corporate farm. I am not saying that there are no mistakes made; I am just pointing out that in my experience, showing common courtesy would probably prevent a lot of grief.

Amd there are rogues in every tribe and profession. I was not dicussing existential socialism.

DeLaRue:
I once told my Hausa security man to allow a herd of cow graze in a part of the farm that was not cultivated at the time. He refused vigorously - he said Oga, these people (ie the herdsmen) are wicked (his word).

His contention was that if you give them any room, they might return in the dead of the night to graze the cultivated parts. He said they are heartless.

A few months later, a herd of cows graze through my entire maize plants overnight. The scale of the destruction was shocking. My new security man slept through it all

Despite all that, and to the consternation of my farm workers, if I'm around when cows encroach, I still try to allow them graze in parts of the farm that are not cultivated.

To me it just seems churlish to deny hungry cows feed on grass that I have no immediate need for. And I think a lot of people will be willing to accommodate the herdmens if they too would cooperate and keep within agreed boundaries. But they often don't.

Jakumo:


Holy chit. Eight kilometers is a long way to be able to pick up odors. Also I had no idea that the urine of stressed cows smells different to that of relaxed cattle. This means of course that cow urine urine that is mixed with the dung collected from the slaughter house, greatly adds to the deterrent effect.

Also your idea of using Trisodium Citrate to prevent the cow blood from clotting, is pure genius. With blood that no longer clots and congeals, simply filtering the blood will make it suitable for any type of spray rig, be that on a tractor, or carried on a farm worker's back.

Romanoff:
It doesn't stop the herders from harvesting your farm products sha.

RisenPhoenix:


I don't have any information about who does that, and I want to believe that such a general stereotype must be false. Of course, there surely must be some murderous bad eggs among them just as there are murderous bad eggs in every tribe, race or community. I refuse to consequently categorize all members of a community based on the actions of a few; especially when I have had otherwise normal interactions with other members of the same community.

Jakumo:
Thanks to Nairaland's own Organic Chemist of renown, Ms. Sweetmom, Trisodium Citrate has been identified as the additive best suited to preventing the coagulation and clotting of fresh cow blood.

With that viscosity problem solved, the discerning industrial farmer of means can now afford to think big, but not too big, in terms of cost. I speak of drone crop sprayers, featured in the following two Youtube videos. Sent aloft with a payload of thinned cow blood that has been carefully filtered though fine cloth to remove all particulate matter, a drone such as the following two examples, could very quickly protect a hectare of farmland or more, with a fine mist of cow blood solution blended in water, to ensure that cattle stay clear for up to a fortnight, depending on precipitation and regional weather.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93LP7PnP0A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzGIYYN3sOc


Without question, I am convinced that there are numerous Nairaland readers, who heft the financial muscle to place multiple orders for crop-spraying drones like the ones above, capable of spraying one hectare in NINE MINUTES, for the SOLE purpose of running a profitable business spraying farms silently, quickly and to devastating effect against the surging hordes of cattle now streaming down from the drought plagued north of the country, and thereby constituting a growing peril that gravely threatens Nigeria's agricultural food production capacity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mWDpVC0Has

ABCthings:
Who is saying you can't have normal interactions with them? They villagers they have been having normal interactions with, did that stop them from killing them(villagers)? Or you will say the villagers are the one killing themselves in a bid to stereotype them(funanis)?
This is why I call you clueless you are pretending not to know the islamization and fulnalization agenda.

Ameboperoo:

I don't know where you are based but here in Kogi State, some migrating Bokolos will enter your farm at night, trample on anything that grows in the farm, harvest your crop and feed it to their cattles. They uproot cassava and cut it in pieces so the cattles can eat it.
The white Fulani cows don't eat yam leaves but they so much like cassava leaves and the fresh stem.

Sweetmom:


This is great, much safer and much more cost effective than using small planes, I know a German family of a father and two sons that use light planes to spray farms in East Africa, they get paid very well (the job is extremely dangerous because they have to fly very low), also these drones can be produced very cheaply in China, I came back from China 2 days ago and I can assure you that you can make these drones there for a fraction of the cost of what you would buy them from Europe.
PS: I'm a guy not a girl.

Ameboperoo:

You are not in Nigeria I guess? Today, this today o, someone called me to come and see what they did to my farm. I think they came in the night and uprooted my cassava to feed to their cattles . This is not the first time o.
Even my neighbor's yam that he preserved by burying them was unearthed and fed to the cows.
This is not the first time they have invaded my farm. If you check my topics you will see a thread I opened few years ago asking for advice on how to deter them peacefully but no solution yet.
I think I will quit farming.
I'm so discouraged right now.