Kulning Cow Singing

[pieter]

Have you ever heard this in Denmark Karl?





Kulning



Kulning or herding calls (called laling, lalning or lålning in Norway and neighbouring parts of Sweden, kauking or kaukning in some parts of Norway, in the provinces of Dalarna and Hälsingland in Sweden and the former Norwegian provinces in Sweden, Jämtland and Härjedalen, also kulokker, kyrlokker or a lockrop) is a domestic Scandinavian music form, often used to call livestock (cows, goats, etc.) down from high mountain pastures where they have been grazing during the day. It is possible that the sound also serves to scare away predators (wolves, bears, etc.), but this is not the main purpose of the call.

The song form is often used by women, as they were the ones tending the herds and flocks in the high mountain pastures, but there are recordings of these calls sung by men. The knowledge about it today originates, however, from regions near mid-Fennoscandia.

For more info read these links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulning
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockrop
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulning
no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laling

[pieter]

[pieter]

[karl]

Pieter

Kulning, oh yes, their were several farms near us, this was the manner of alerting the cows to come in for milking. My self once only tried to help one of our neighbour milk his three cows whilst they were away for the day.. Yes, I knew about fishing, operating the smoke house and working inside the house, but nothing about milking cows.

I was ignorant about each of the three cows had their own spot to be milked. With this, was a 4th cow {young bull} that once closed in the milking stall {Ko stanchen}, would not stand still to be milked and almost broke down part of the milking holding boards, I had to let it out and the poor thing left on a dead run out of the barn.. Then, the other cows would not stand still enough to be milked, the actual fact is, I did not know how to do it... To solve the problem, was to run to the next close farm and ask for help, well ok. I was to meet the neighbour walking quickly as he was thinking I was not a good choice to be asked to milk the cows and he took care of the problem, and in the process settled down the poor steer I had tried to milk.

Kulning is best done in a singing manner to carry the voice further. Ladies did it best, for their voices were better tuned to carry out over most fellows. The simular is used or at least in our part, to call chickens in at night. Chickens in our area, if left out at night, could be killed by foxes on their night prowl.

Karl

[pieter]

Dear Karl,

It is good to hear of your youth experiences. In the Netherlands and Belgium I have experience with farm life in the Wallonia, Zeeland and Gelderland (Low Saxon) area's. Colleagues, higschool mates and friends with a farm background often told me that bulls were and are reason for concern, because they can be dangerous with their hot temper, rage and not seldom a farm kid or farmer was heavily wounded or even killed by a raging bull.

A raging bull cought on the country in the Netherlands. He escaped from a farm and went wild


Also some times cows have their own will and escape from the field to enter a neighbourhood




That Kulning must be a typical Scandinavian thing, because I never heard of it in the Netherlands, and never saw it. It is a nice and very practical tradition.

Cheers,
Pieter

[pieter]

In this video you see how strong and fierce bulls can be. These bulls look the same like large bulls I know from Belgium and the Netherlands

Fact is that you see a lot of cows and female calfs in the fields and on farms, but that you see few bulls and male calfs. I don't know why that is and where they keep them.
Maybe they are kept apart for meat or maybe they are slaughtered?

[karl]

pieter

{Fact is that you see a lot of cows and female calfs in the fields and on farms, but that you see few bulls and male calfs. I don't know why that is and where they keep them.
Maybe they are kept apart for meat or maybe they are slaughtered?}


There are two primary reasons of not keeping more then one bull in and around the cows. One problem of two or more bulls in one pasture is they will compete against one another and very often will injure them selves with fighting. The other reason is a male for other then for purpose of breeding is useless other then for slaughter. For they rob the pasture grass from milking cows that are the life blood of a farm. For the milk and cream is worth considerable more then the value of the one or two male cattle in beef value. Plus add this as a cost of pasture and hay eaten as a loss.

Karl

[pieter]

A Dutch Frisian farm[/b]

[pieter]

The modern Dutch diary farm

[Jaga]

Pieter, I remember these Dutch looking Frisian houses from my travel to Baltic through Vistula Delta - and seeing so called Zurawy, where Dutch people settled some time ago

[karl]

Pieter

Thank you for includant of Friesland with your interesting videos. And of course, my self was watch it with high interest.

Karl