Recorded with TASCAM DR-07mkII
While on holiday staying in a country cottage near some cow fields, there was a mother cow and what must have been her 2 calves which had been put into separate fields either side of a road. This was obviously pretty distressing for the cows and so they were constantly mooing at each other and being the kind of guy I am, of course I recorded it!
I have done as much as I can to reduce wind and other background noises (the windshield I have for my DR-07 doesn't seem to do a lot except make it look like it's got a 70s afro) and have trimmed all the cow sounds out and put them together into this one file. Some are better than others, it was hard to know which cow was gonna make a noise next.
Free to use for anything, if you use it, would be cool if you let us know where in the comments, be interesting to see where they end up :)
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
5:11.293
File size
52.4 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo
Comments
10 years, 4 months ago
I also came to a country cottage next to a cow farm, mines is in North Spain.
The cows started making this noise last night (normally nights are really peaceful) and have been calling out all day. It sounds like they are in great distress. Even the dogs joined in howling.
I had a quick look on the internet to understand something about cow signals. There's tons on "cat talk" and "dog talk", but nothing about cows. It's as though we don't attribute "use" animals with any thoughts, emotions or inter-communication at all.
Your recording is practically the only thing in the whole web offering any insight at all. Strange considering the amount of cows kept. I saw a lorry this morning, maybe it took some cows/calves away for slaughter and this is what is distressing the herd today.
It's really sad.
I've no idea how someone can do this for a living.
10 years, 8 months ago
I will probably use this to make people hear how separating a family isn't right - especially when the reason is people being greedy and taking milk that isn't theirs. I have some footage from a dairy industry and these sounds could be good with the footage.
Thank you for recording this !
10 years, 8 months ago
I will probably use this to make people hear how separating a family isn't right - especially when the reason is people being greedy and taking milk that isn't theirs. I have some footage from a dairy industry and these sounds could be good with the footage.
Thank you for recording this !
11 years ago
Mwooooooooooooooooo
11 years, 2 months ago
Moooof, thanks for sharing!
