Cows out again

[Jogeephus]

Just got another call from 911 telling me my cows are out. Funny how I just happen to be standing there watching the cows eat and don't see the first one out. Don't hear the first horn blowing. Look down the highway both ways and no cows on the highway for as far as I can see.

Dispatch tells me they are at mile marker 3. Its only 200 yards from me so I glance in that direction and don't see the first cow on the highway. I tell them I don't see any. Dispatch tells me the deputy is looking at them and they are on Keefe Road and some are in the churchyard right there at the mile marker. I explain to them that there is no church here nor is there a road by that name at this location but the church and the road she is describing is 9 miles down the road.

Glad I'm not fifty miles away because this would have really screwed up my day. Am also, glad I'm not in the ditch needing help and I also feel much better about my decision to keep a gun with me because if I ever needed help and I had to rely on these folks you might as well send the coroner because I'd surely be dead by the time help arrived with these fuddled directions.

 

[slick4591]

How many mile marker 3's y'all got?

 

[Anonymous]

Go up there with Eli, a trailer and some panels and catch em up. Then barter them bake to the owner for a calf of your choosing. Hahaha

 

[Jogeephus]

How many mile marker 3's y'all got?

That's a good question. They were put up by the DOT so its anyone's guess. :lol2:

Hook, I knew whose cows they were and told the dispatcher. Why the deputy didn't know is beyond me. Seems to me the name on the road would have been a clue - if the name on the mailbox at the only house within three miles of this wasn't enough.

Just for fun, lets see if anyone can guess whose cattle they belonged to. I'll send out a telepathic mind meld to ya'll just to help. If you get it right you will qualify for Chief Detective. :mrgreen:

 

[Anonymous]

Martin Luther king?

 

[snake67]

LOL

Your mind meld is working I think I got it.

One thing about deep snow here - I can leave every gate on the place open - and we often do - the cow are always within 50 yards of the feed.

No grass means no wander.

Bez

 

[cow pollinater]

My dad and I had that problem for awhile when I was a teenager. We had one cow get out on the highway one time on a Sunday morning with no cars on the road except for one CHP (and a few of his buddies in pretty short order) and we were the proud new owners of every cow in the road within our patrol area for the next year.

 

[mwj]

It's very obvious they belong to the 3 Marker boys! :cowboy:

 

[Jogeephus]

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: Ya'll are killing me.

In a way I should get pi$$ed with these calls but I just have to laugh. I am actually glad they call me because you never know. In the last 20 times I've gotten phone calls about my cows being out there was one time that I actually did have one out. (And thanks to someone on the board, I was talked out of shooting the idiot)

My worst situation happened a few years ago when we got a new yankee transplant who is drawing a government pension and decided to get back to nature. He bought a piece of property at mile marker 1 and put up two fences then began purchasing a wide array of cattle and other critters. Several people's gardens were eaten to the dirt by his animals as a result of his two-fence mob grazing technique and yes I was always informed that my cows were out.

His method was scrutinized so by the gardenless neighbors that the humane society was called out and they just couldn't understand how the cows could continuously get out of his "ranch" till one of the neighbors took the inspector by the hand and led them away from their vehicle and showed them the property only had two fences. Then it became clear to the inspector what the problem was - on their third trip no less.

But who am I to judge? Heck, when you consider only fencing half your property would save at least 50% on fencing this could be viewed as a brilliant money saving strategy and I guess a dimwitted southerner like myself just has a hard time seeing the brilliance of this yankee rancher.

 

[Anonymous]

So, mlk is alive then :shock: that's gonna throw a wrench in about 49% of people lives.
We've got a local that has goats and only has 3 fences. On the front there's no fence but there's a fat across his driveway. That stops the police from comin in without a warrant. His goats magically get loose anytime the grass is gone. I've had them in my field and eating my hay. Animal control won't do squat , but next time I see them inside my fence I'm have a BBQ

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Jo, at least it was in the middle of the day. I got a call from dispatch at work one morning at 2am, they said that lines and poles were in rd on US 321 near box 5500. Deputy on scene, traffic blocked. I drove an hour up there, found 5500, no deputy, no poles in the rd. Drove on out Hwy 321 several miles, nothing. I called the contact number, which was the deputy on scene. He said he was beside the mailbox at 5500. Hmmm, I had just went past there, so I asked him "you are a Johnson County deputy right"? He replied, "no Greene". Dispatch had missed it by two counties and 110 miles. If they only missed your place by nine miles they are doing pretty good.

 

[Commercialfarmer]

Got a call this past fall about a calf out on the highway- unknown tag or brand, just black calf. Had caught a steer earlier that day that had been missed in the summer coming off grass in a rough 1/2 section. Finally caught him, moved him with some pairs on a place to be easily gathered. Thought surely it wouldn't be him, it was several miles from the pasture with the pairs, and it had only been a few hours. Went out to check, just to make sure. Dang if it wasn't him, and if he hadn't been creamed by a semi a couple minutes right before we got there. We beat the sheriff deputy to the scene, but failed to beat the semi.

What a waste. Tracks showed he went to the far north fence lime and jumped a really nice 5 wire fence and never looked back. Apparently heading back to where he came from all alone. Wouldn't have thought he would have wanted out with the other cattle there, wouldn't have thought he would jump that fence, but he did. Lesson learned.

Do you all have every county road marked with a sign? We do now. Every corner has a street sign. Hate to guess what that cost.

 

[Jogeephus]

If they call you, you just have to go check cause you just never know do you? Narrowing it down to the right county does limit the number of false alarms though. :lol: We do have road signs at every road and mile markers but it takes a trained eye to use this complex system.

Apparently heading back to where he came from all alone. Wouldn't have thought he would have wanted out with the other cattle there, wouldn't have thought he would jump that fence, but he did. Lesson learned.

That was the same with my most recent escapee. No reason for him to get out and leave the herd other than he could and he did. He has a ticket to go for a ride.

 

[1982vett]

How many mile marker 3's y'all got?

News Release....

The prestigious firm, HeadUpMyButt was paid $150,000.00 plus expenses to study the situation....It was found that numbering all the signs with the same number would significantly reduce time and errors when installing the signs. The county commissioners voted 3 to 1 to use the number 3, however, future orders for signs will use the number 1. Shortly after these signs were installed, it seems a growing number of non-resident citizens are getting lost. It has been suggested a new study be commissioned to look into the reasons why these citizens seem to not be able to know where they are. The cost for this study has been set at no less than $250,000.00 and will be conducted by a subsidiary of the same firm.....

 

[slick4591]

You know one of our commissioners, don't you?

 

[Shantilly]

When i worked security out at Mosaic my job was to patrol the property that the company owns for trespassers and loose cows. Mosaic leases out some of its reclaimed land to cattle owners .. Anyway I was driving down a graded road on my way to check a "hot spot" for trespassers and low and behold a couple of grown cows were out in the road along with a younger one. I am a city girl and have no idea about age or anything else. I knew the owners name and contacted our main guardhouse to have that guard call the owner while i tried to get the escapies out of the road and see if i could see where they got out. No break in the fence line that i could see, 3 wire fence. I came back around behind the cows with my truck and they started to head back to the main road..not knowing a thing about cows besides "dinner" i decided to hit the horn and see what happened. Lucky me, it scared them back the way they needed to go. the older cows walked between the barbed wire and back into the pasture, the younger one was having none of that. After about 15 mins of me backing up hitting the horn it finally had had enough and jumped the fence. ( I didn't know cows could jump) About 10 mins later the owner showed up. *Now comes the totally embarrassing part for me. :oops:
(I grew up in the city of Miami and we had a few cow pastures around that were owned by Grahams Dairy. I was always told that the way to tell the difference between a cow and a bull, besides the obvious, was that bulls have horns and cows do not.)
The man and his son, who was about 9 yrs old, came up and I proceeded to tell them what had happened and what I did and i then pointed out which cows had been out and what they did to get back in the pasture. I told him that the younger one, "the bull", had jumped the fence to get back and he gave me a "wth"? look and said." That COW is not going to be a problem anymore, I wont have cows that get out." "So I will sell them off and ya'll shouldn't have any more problems and of course if you do give me a call and I will take care of it." I explained what I had been taught about cows and he just shook his head in disbelief and then his son came up and told me, "everyone knows cows have horns too." Guess not everyone did, but I do now :) A little bit later I caught a few people trespassing up that graded road so at least i knew for sure i could still do that part of my job with some intelligence :D

 

[jedstivers]

You didn't know that cows could jump? Ever hear that story about a cow and the moon?

 

[Shantilly]

I always thought it was a fairy tale ... cows don't jump over the moon and the dish didn't really run away with the spoon. I know they jump now:) I also learned that chickens can in fact fly and that goats and chickens get into trees at night. :)

 

[Tim/South]

You were not alone. Many people on the street do not know cows can have horns and they will argue the fact. Many also do not know we keep our cows for many years. We make our money when we sell the calves.
Billy goats are also the only ones with horns.
Buck deer keep their horns year 'round and add a new point each year.
Ponies grow up to be horses.
Horse shoes are nailed on and last a lifetime.

 

[Shantilly]

You were not alone. Many people on the street do not know cows can have horns and they will argue the fact. Many also do not know we keep our cows for many years. We make our money when we sell the calves.
Billy goats are also the only ones with horns.
Buck deer keep their horns year 'round and add a new point each year.
Ponies grow up to be horses.
Horse shoes are nailed on and last a lifetime.

wait..what? ours or theirs? and I'm guessing that's why we don't have to many farriers around. Or do vets also do farrier work? Horses I know more about because my family was big on horse racing and mom used to take us to breakfast at Hialeah Race Track to watch them work out :) I didn't care to see some of the horse being abused by idiot trainers.. but i did learn about them and they are on my "most wanted" list :)