Hurley, he bought the property behind me, from his sisters kids. Even after this, I'm not denying him access, yet. I'm just trying to understand it, I certainly wish I hadn't lost my temper, but i can't wrap my mind around doing someone that way.
Ya, @snoopdog . Bake him a pie, go over there and apologize for you high level of character, cut him a check for shredded pasture, pick his bull back up and take it back to you place until he needs it and make things right.
Absolutely, there's been a lot of bulls ruined due to fighting, as well as open cows. We have a situation next to us that has a survival of fittest beef cattle herd comprised of mainly Jerseys. Every year twice on average we end up with Jersey bulls in with our cattle even have a jersey cross heifer calf this year from it. Had it been a bull calf that would have been a major monetary loss. We try to keep our fences maintained and when something gets out we try to get them back as soon as possible. We expect the same in return within reason.
The farm that I rent now had a herd like that. In 2005 all the neighbors came to us and asked if we could please help do something with this neighbor 's cows. Everyone was tired of them in there corn fields.
That's pretty much the situation that we have currently. There is a never ending supply of Jersey bulls that are just as you described. This last ordeal was 2 of them one of which had a white eye making it more erratic and aggressive. We had to get a man on horse back to rope it and get it into a trailer down at the bottom of a hill. We then then had to pull that rig back up the hill with a tractor as it started raining and was too slick to come up. My arm was jammed trying to close the cut gate in the trailer thankfully it wasn't broken but I felt it for a month or more. I don't mind helping people at all, and believe that should be the way it is, but it does get frustrating when it's the same scenario replaying over and over with seemingly no effort to lessen the problem on the their part.The farm that I rent now had a herd like that. In 2005 all the neighbors came to us and asked if we could please help do something with this neighbor 's cows. Everyone was tired of them in there corn fields.
A wind storm 3yrs prior had taken down a barn and no cattle had been sold since. To my knowledge a vet chute had never been on the place. I asked my neighbor what his head count was, he said 65. When we finally got everything caught we had 83. Including a bull that had traveled 4miles and gotten in to this cow herd, with no way to get him out the owners had just written him off as a loss. There were cows that had been in the corn so much they were foundered. We shipped 17 2yr old bulls, a dozen or so yearling, and four mature herd bulls. They were like the wild cattle that got posted about a while ago. Never been crowded, never been sorted, would run you over as a group, scared out of their mind crazy.
Kind of fun to tell the story, but I will be quite content if I don't have to ever do that again.
Fence I agree as a whole respect is about as scarce as hens teeth these days. I also know that lots of times partnerships or working together don't always work out too good, especially when families are involved. I don't know anything about this man or his uncles story, but the generations in my family starting long before my time were into some pretty heated lifelong feuds. When it came down to the younger generations the ones of us on one side of it saw how bad and just silly some of it was that we have made it a point to try and get along as best we could and maintained a decent relationship with the other side of the feud. Neighbors and even family fussin and cussing with each other, unfortunately was pretty common n these parts. I grew up hearing it so I think that has probably instilled in me a desire to try to get along with others. I'm a firm believer in good fences make for good neighbors.
Took me a little age to understand it's best to address issues when I'm not tired, frustrated and having a problems. Sometimes it's needed to get a little rough, but not flying off the handle. Uncle most likely didn't think nothing of it, a simple mention of it over a beer probably have done some good.
Yes, most times it's two bulls across a fence from each other equally at fault for fighting and tearing up fence and getting together. When we have a bull causing trouble we move him if possible or usually just replace them. Cattle with very little to eat on one side of a fence is a whole nother story that don't take a bull on both sides to be problematic.
I will tell you something, NOTHING was left for me, I pay my mother fair market value to lease the place. I'm not a millenial or a snowflake, but it sure sounds like you are. I could give a good shize about your opinion of me, clear? And learn some grammar.
Again you show your true colors.
