Anyone have any ideas how to calm down a Limousin heifer so I can load it into the trailer to bring it home from summer grazing, its mates are back just left one other quiet one with it hoping to calm it down, but it hasn't worked so far. 

A bit of cake each day and see if you can lure her into a pen

Thanks but had her in a pen but jumped 5ft 5in gate

A farmer up the road made all his gates higher to keep lims from jumping them you could try dobbleing up the gates to keep her in

henarar:

A bit of cake each day and see if you can lure her into a pen

 

Second that, once they start to trust you, then you are getting somewhere.  We always feed ours out of the same Deosan D90 buckets, so throughout the animals lives they always follow a green bucket.  When loading cattle, we put one of these buckets in the front of the trailer.

Get your wife to do it. Seriously. It is a rather strange co-incidence that my wife (for the 1400th time at least) brought up the subject tonight. Way, way back about 1977 (women do have long memories) we had a similar problem., not a Lim but a HerX heifer. Jumped the fence and ran around like crazy on the next door farm. Father, me, and a couple of other blokes decided to leave it for a week or so and see what happened. My wife climbed the fence and walked it back home. Female animals sort of undersatnd each other a lot better than we can ever hope. In the absence of you having a wife, I will send mine if you pay the airfare and her accommodation. Oh, plus a bottle of Dalmore for me when you send her home again. You cannot keep her, no matter how useful you think she might be. 

go on utube and see how they catch scrub bulls in australia, , copy that jeep and your fixed

Park the trailer up in the field, and start feeding them in the trailer itself for a few days rather than a pen.

Only thing I would add is to try getting a few more quiet cows to keep her company. You say there is already one with her but the more the merrier. Hope for some cold wet weather, that'll soon bring her to her senses. We had 4 WB bullocks on the hill one autumn that just would not come home with the others. We threw them a bit of hay now and then and by February they were a lot easier to talk to. Only other advice would be to get a Belgian Blue bull next time. They don't seem to run quite so fast

old mac is right, calm woman will soon get her in, once i worked on a farm with a wild bull, he chased me first time he seen me, to cut a long story short, my other half had the bull eating from her hand in a few weeks, even tb tested without going through the crush

multi-power, I am pleased you had a similar experience. I have always been kind to my animals and do not rant at them or hit them (one exception being a buck that attacked me every day for almost a week earlier this year, but he never saw the following week except from the inside of a neighbours' hunting dogs) yet I do accept that occasionally some animals prefer to be dealt with by female humans. I owned one horse and have heard of several more like that.

My original suggestion was meant to be taken seriously. Even the bit about the Dalmore.

 Thanks for all the suggestions have already tried most of these except the wife one,she's probably more frightened than the Lim. Have had ones in the past and got them in with feed and gaining trust, but this one just panics and jumps at anything in its way.Bottle of Dalmore might be the answer yet, or maybe I should just give it to the Lim.

gor:

Bottle of Dalmore might be the answer yet, or maybe I should just give it to the Lim.

There's only one thing worse than a mad lim, and that's a drunk mad lim.

take its mates back up there, leave them for a day or two and then make sure shes not the last one left in the pen when you load them.

I was always taught by my dad and grandad that its always much easier to let everything back out and start again than just leave one behind, once they know they can beat you it makes handling them a whole lot harder. having said that  all our calves follow a bag of cake and the sucklers follow the tractor everywhere. apart from a jersey heifer we bought because she was cheap who will run rings around us all day until she decides she wants to go out the gate or into the trailer, and then she will just wander in with no fuss whatsoever.