Who said cattle were just there for milk and meat? Not this bunch of Dederang farmers.

Sitting together in their local on Saturday, a charming little pub on the Kiewa Valley Highway in the state's north east, Glen Barton had an idea.

Giddy with excitement after his football team the Tigers had just won the preliminary final, Barton yelled to his son and his friends: "Let's paint the cows!"

Barton's son Corey thought his dad might be half serious, but didn't realise how serious until the next morning when he and his friends got a call from Glen asking them to come over to his cattle farm wearing painting gear.