Lynette Brock had resolved to move the mob. What followed was a search, an injury resulting in a trip to hospital, and a rescue operation requiring the jaws of life, two chainsaws, and the remains of the children's little lunch.
Ms Brock, who runs and breeds Angus cattle on the family farm she inherited from her father, had agisted 45 head at a friend's property at Louth Park near Greenhills in the Hunter for the winter.