The Grass Doctor - Herd of cows filled my lawns with hoofmarks. Best way to repair ?

Herd of cows filled my lawns with hoofmarks. Best way to repair ?

The ground was boggy after all the rain and some of the holes are really deep. 3 lawns 11/2 acres probably in area so BIG solution needed. Also cheapest so please dont suggest relaying it all. One lawn was only made this year.

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IF I TELL YA CAN I HAVE FRESH STEAK`S ON THE HOOF
You can rent a roller that attaches to your lawn mower. Its weighted so you just drive over all the yard and it smoothes it out. We use it on mole and groundhog holes.
Rake fine earth/compost into holes, then reseed.
oh MAN that sucks! i would call the cows' daddy and ask 'what he gonna do about it?'
Sorry, but I have bad news. This happened to one of our friends too. They had to have good top soil brought in by the truck loads. If you do this, make sure it is good top soil or it will turn hard as rock. Hopefully you can get the type with compost mixed into it. We have another friend who only brings in compost as a top soil.
If there's still grass growing in the holes, fill them with sand and continue watering/mowing as usual. The sand will sink below the grass and push it back up. If there isn't any grass in the holes, just fill with regular fill-dirt. Re-seeding is faster, but not necessary. By the end of next summer the holes will be filled in with grass again.
Sorry about this but.... LOL! THAT was hilarious. .... ahem.... Sorry about that.
wet very well and roll yard..repeat once or twice than fill worse marks with a few shovel fulls of top soil an plant some grass.should be good as new in no time
My parents got a new fence surrounding their property and it worked a treat (Wire fence, nothing expensive). No more hoof marks as cattle kept out. Watch yourself, because if you run on your garden you can easily damage your foot like i did. Never been the same since! Let me know how you get on.
Darling Darling Darling the answer to this is make sure you have sheep on your lawns in the future then you wont need to worry about the hoof marks of the cattle, WHY? you will have no lawn at all. Only a laugh dear but i am called The Jolly Roger
Fill up a few barrow loads of soil and mix some grass seed in with it, fill in the holes tread it, and rake it level, no need to roll it, the rain will soon do that for you, but after you fill in the holes give a good watering to get it started, and nature will do the rest.
After a couple of good rainstorms they will fill themselves in and grass will start growing again. Otherwise, take a hoe and fill them in yourself with the soil around them. 1 1/2 acres isn't that much area and you can do it in a days time
Top dress the damaged areas of your lawn with soil/sand mix , re seed the areas that need doing.
This happened to me as well. The farmer should be responsible for the cost of any repairs. Find out who owns the herd, contact them and invite them round to view the damage. Unless it was your herd of course. Use a good quality top soil to fill the holes and re-seed. If the farmer is reluctant to come up with the money for the soil try to make him at least give you a worker for a day to fill the holes. As an aside, on one occasion our neighbour came home to discover a bull in her greenhouse! Honest. it's true, and yes, he did totally demolish it.
If you're a private land owner..why not build a wall or fence to keep the cows out. As for restoring the lawns,you could fill the holes with compost and throw in grass seeds.
Several large bags of J.Arthur Bowers Compost to fill the holes, and a box or two of grass seed to refill the affected areas. See also: THE LAWN EXPERT by D.G. Hessayon http://astore.amazon.co.uk/jdcouk-garden-21/detail/0903505487/026-4949720-3315662 £5.99