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.