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Great Irish cow jailbreak – Daisy opens gates with tongue to free C.O.Ws – VIDEO

Daisy the cow thinks she’s Steve McQueen in ‘The Great Escape’

KATE HICKEY,

IrishCentral.com Editor

Published Friday, June 17, 2011, 4:35 PM

Updated Sunday, June 19, 2011, 9:03 AM

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Farmer Tom Grant, in Armagh near the Irish border could not figure out how his cows were escaping from their shed. After an investigation, the farmer realized his extraordinary cow, Daisy, was opening the gate's two bolts with her tongue.

Grant had his neighbor film the cows and they soon discovered “the great escape” was all down to this amazing “bovine Einstein." The cows were repeatedly found frolicking in the green fields when Grant went to look for them in their shed.

He said “Daisy just wanted to do her own thing.”

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Speaking to UTV Grant said, “Every night I would feed these heifers and put them into their respective pens, secured by a two-bar gate. I came out one morning and found the gate open and Daisy was out with her friends, and I thought maybe I didn't bar the gate right. I thought maybe there were boys about during the night trying to steal a heifer."

His neighbor, Thomas McGuinness, set to solving the mystery by hanging out with the cows armed with his camera. What he recorded was amazing.

Fittingly, Tom Grant is a fan of “Animal Farm.” Daisy the cow had not only figured out how to open a bolt, but she had also discovered what sequence to open them in.

Although the cows are enjoying their freedom in the sun, during the summer Grant will have to look into more secure housing for these udder geniuses.

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| Oct 05, 2011, 05:53 PM EDT

Well, here on the South Dakota prairie, my neighbor has a Belgian stud who can hook his halter on the gate, and open the latch and slip his halter at the same time...how he figured that one out I don't know, but now it needs an actual padlock to keep him (and his harem) inside. If he is really determined, he can clear the fence like a deer. This is a big, strong, heavy draft horse we are talking about. Not a stupid animal at all.

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Towngate | Jun 21, 2011, 05:07 AM EDT

History Revisionists are having a field day! After all this time, it may transpire that Queen Maeve was, after all, innocent of the 'Cattle Raid of Cooley'! ~ ~ ~ The 'self rustling' Bullocks -(cows)in the video are clearly descendants of the Cooley cattle. ~ ~ ~ Btw: don't ever eat a bullock who calls himself 'Daisy' you might catch something; and @ carrai: If God wanted us to be vegetarian, why did he make animals out of meat!?

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ellenfromcork | Jun 20, 2011, 06:42 PM EDT

@ciarral If I eat Daisy's meat it'll only improve my intelligence.

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aka.red | Jun 20, 2011, 10:37 AM EDT

Cows? Udders? Where? Cute story.

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eibhleann7 | Jun 19, 2011, 09:08 AM EDT

I will never again say " she's a dumb cow", it would be highly insulting to Daisey.

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kincora | Jun 19, 2011, 08:34 AM EDT

Now you know why Cow & Gate is such a powerful brand name

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Chiefjustice | Jun 18, 2011, 06:03 PM EDT

Being a old farm boy, let me say that The girls will often do things that makes ya wonder. No one eats the beef from Dairy Cattle...TOooo Old TOooo Tough. Ya can't cut the gravey with a hatchet..

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firella | Jun 18, 2011, 03:45 PM EDT

Pity Daisy wasnt onboard Titanic she may have saved a few lives showing passengers how to escape! Dont forget Titanic Heritage Trust have their Titanic 100th Anniversary Gold, Silver and Bronze Coins available in very limited numbers now at www.titanicheritagetrust.org.uk Each purchase will help in the supplying of a new RNLI lifeboat.

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ciarrai | Jun 18, 2011, 02:45 PM EDT

Dear "ellenfromcork" Sad, yes, and then you'll eat that hamburger and get all the diseases that meat eaters are likely to get.

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Towngate | Jun 18, 2011, 01:21 PM EDT

A load of Bulllockology! An obvious set-up and the reporter obviously has a sexual identity crisis going on. What next? - Hens with Cocks?

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mamaginnty | Jun 18, 2011, 12:22 PM EDT

Sirpeter, I still say cows with a ? cows...milk. Bullocks maybe.

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biggles008 | Jun 18, 2011, 12:07 PM EDT

The cows are probably fed on Maize. (Maze)

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ellenfromcork | Jun 18, 2011, 12:07 PM EDT

Kind of sad that she'll end up as hamburger.

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ciarrai | Jun 18, 2011, 11:23 AM EDT

Dumb animal, huh? This is just another arrow in the quiver of us animal rights nuts useful to show the horrors of the actual factory farm. The farm shown on the video is a typical small humane one. I want you all the watch "Farm to Fridge" to see how 90% (or more) of the meat you eat is produced here in the U.S. of A. Be brave and sit through the whole lengthy 12 MINUTES. Compare the life of the N.I. cattle in the RTE video with the animals seen in "FARM TO FRIDGE." Many have changed their eating habits after watching "FARM TO FRIDGE. What about you, humane and daysent Irish-American? Let me know after you have watched the video, "FARM TO FRIDGE."

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carrickcourt | Jun 18, 2011, 09:50 AM EDT

A distant cousin in the North sent me this 'Great Escape" video earlier week off of RTE. What is that cow eating?

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