TxBrangus
Active member
Looking for some advice on what you would think to be a fair price to charge this gentleman whose cow has been on my place since August. I'll give you a little background on the situation, there were (4) cows out back in July no brands, tags or anything to identify ownership. They we're eating my neighbors deer corn and driving him crazy running loose on his place as he doesnt have fences on the majority of his property, he doesn't have any animals, just leases his place to hunters. In August my neighbor contacted sheriff to have this cows removed from his place, they had been there almost a month at this point. The sheriff sent out some guys to catch the cattle. They were able to catch 3 of the 4, while in the process of trying to catch the last cow she ran through my fence and in with my cows. Of course the guys didn't try to fix my fence nor retrieve the cow instead they packed up and left with the 3 they were able to catch. I contacted the sheriff on multiple occasions for them to get the cow off my place. Needless to say they still haven't got around to picking her up, I asked the Sgt. what happen to the other (3) cows he said they were never claimed and auctioned off. Well now this gentleman has contacted me and says the cows were his, I told him the cow had been on my place since August and had torn up a section in my fence. This cow for (4) months has been an expense to me and due to the period of time she's been here I believe I should be somewhat compensated. The cow has had everything that my cows have access to hay, feed, mineral, even vaccinated and worked her when I did my fall workup on my cows in case she hadn't been properly taken care of. I'd just like a fair price to tell this guy, if it had only been a week or something like that I wouldn't even bother, but (4) months is ridiculous for someone not to notice 4 of their cows missing.