cattle broke out

[Roadapple]

Drill a hole in the hinge, slip a washer on, and stick a cotter key in it. Easy to take gate off if you have to.

 

[msscamp]

If you ever figure out what makes them go elsewhere, let me know.

That one's easy - because they can! :lol: :lol:

Arizona is a fence-out state (that mean's it is the property owners responsibility to fence range cattle OUT) - ...

So is Wyoming.

I WILL rush over to get my strays off of other folks property - if they have the freaking common sense to actually call instead of GOING AND BUYING THEM HAY. But I did refuse to go clean up "droppings" from the guest ranch up the road. WTH? a guest ranch that can't handle a little genuaine bs? THANK GOODNESS they have new owners - still morons, but not CRAZY morons.

I kinda figured you were that type of cattle owner from your posts. As for the rest of this paragraph, :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: Thanks, I always enjoy a good laugh!

And if you plant a lawn or garden in the middle of the DESERT, right next to a range fence, you just might want to add a few strands or some other reinforcement...a fence that has the same range on both sides may hold fine, start irrigating one side and you are going to have a problem.

:nod: :nod:

 

[MoGal]

I guess it depends on what the state laws are but in MO, it is not MY responsibility to keep YOUR animals off my lawn.

My horses stay in but the neighbors horses were constantly out and after about the 20th time of running them back home I went and had a little talk with him. Told him it was not my responsibility to keep his horses in and I was tired of chasing them home. I then learned he'd been turning his electric fence off to keep the electric bill down...........

 

[Alan]

Sound like the old saying... Good fences make good neighbors! I'm with Mogal on this, it's not my responsibility to keep my neigbors live stock off my lawn. I understand different states have range land laws, but I would think that range land is a long way from a neigbors lawn. If my livestock got out and did any damage to my neighbors place, not only would I clean it up but I would pay for any repairs needed. Saying it's good fertilizer on a new lawn doesn't cut it.

I lucky that I have good neighbors, a few years ago their horses were always getting out and in my yard. I went over and ask him if he needed help fixing his fence, he was real polite and said he would take care of it on the weekend, he ran two strands of hot and apoligized again, horse haven't been out since, and we are good neighbors and freinds.

It's not fertilizer to everyone.
Alan

 

[Anonymous]

Move to the country to raise cattle where people don't have lawns, people that raise cattle in the country would be growing hay as close to the house as they can to use every inch of land.

I've got about a 3 acre lawn in front of my house that I mow and weed whack around the fence ...and I live in a place thats about as country as can be...the least populated place in all of Virginia actually :lol:

 

[Bez?]

Move to the country to raise cattle where people don't have lawns, people that raise cattle in the country would be growing hay as close to the house as they can to use every inch of land.

I've got about a 3 acre lawn in front of my house that I mow and weed whack around the fence ...and I live in a place thats about as country as can be...the least populated place in all of Virginia actually :lol:

We just turn the animals out on the lawn to keep it mowed.

Bez?

 

[Anonymous]

Move to the country to raise cattle where people don't have lawns, people that raise cattle in the country would be growing hay as close to the house as they can to use every inch of land.

I've got about a 3 acre lawn in front of my house that I mow and weed whack around the fence ...and I live in a place thats about as country as can be...the least populated place in all of Virginia actually :lol:

We just turn the animals out on the lawn to keep it mowed.

Bez?

I tried that one time...rest of the cattle got jealous and started trying to get through the fences onto my lawn...so I left that idea out the next time :lol:

 

[IluvABbeef]

Had some neighbor's horses get out, so we locked them up in the front pen before they could do any more damage to our front lawn, and phoned the neighbors to come pick them up. Horses have been up around here again a few years back, but instead of meyandering to the front lawn, they stayed inthe back behind the bales for a while then moved on. We didn't know we had visitors until I seen their roadapples!

Have had cattle out in the past many times, one time the whole herd high-tailin' it to the highway a mile away from the farm, neighbors phoned and told us some kids on quads got them turned around and where heading back home. I doubt if they got on anybody's lawn...

Another time, castrated stag and two steers got out (probably cause of thunderstorm previous night) and did a might of damage to our lawn (I thought they were moose tracks )
Backtracked the tracks to where they got out, and figured out they were those three escapees! Found them lying down at the four-way "old-school-road" intersect. And the rest of the story is pretty obvious. Lucky those three did the damage to their owner's lawn, and not the neighbour's.

There's other stories of cattle escapades, but that's good for now.

 

[C HOLLAND]

Move to the country to raise cattle where people don't have lawns, people that raise cattle in the country would be growing hay as close to the house as they can to use every inch of land.

I've got about a 3 acre lawn in front of my house that I mow and weed whack around the fence ...and I live in a place thats about as country as can be...the least populated place in all of Virginia actually :lol:

Me too HF, I live about 1/4 mile from the town hall and I have a 1 acre lawn, but the weed wacker is broke or I would do those darn weeds next to the yard and pasture too. I am surounded on 3 sides by hundreds of acres and thousands of cows. ???? does that sound like COUNTRY or CITY living.....) I kinda like it when my cows escape and they decide my lawn is good eating instead of wandering off through the woods.

 

[Anonymous]

Move to the country to raise cattle where people don't have lawns, people that raise cattle in the country would be growing hay as close to the house as they can to use every inch of land.

I've got about a 3 acre lawn in front of my house that I mow and weed whack around the fence ...and I live in a place thats about as country as can be...the least populated place in all of Virginia actually :lol:

Me too HF, I live about 1/4 mile from the town hall and I have a 1 acre lawn, but the weed wacker is broke or I would do those darn weeds next to the yard and pasture too. I am surounded on 3 sides by hundreds of acres and thousands of cows. ???? does that sound like COUNTRY or CITY living.....) I kinda like it when my cows escape and they decide my lawn is good eating instead of wandering off through the woods.

I don't think the lawn thing has much to do with living in the country...just because we live in the country don't mean we cant try to keep our lawns lookin good ...especially in the summertime when we're out there for BBQ...dont want to be knee deep in alfalfa when were trying to have a cookout

 

[Susie David]

We also have a nice sized front yard...tried the cow mowing once, just once....you'all know that cows like roses.
Much easier living with the bride when the cows are in pasture and the son cuts the lawn...still have the cows line up at the fence as soon as they hear the tractror start up. DMc