Missing cows in Colorado

[Silver]

Interesting article. Anyone heard about this?

Nearly 200 cows disappeared. The case remains cold.

OLATHE, Colorado - The first report was filed just before Thanksgiving. Twenty-nine cows and calves, a rancher told a state agriculture official, hadn’t come home. One week later, three more reports from three other owners: 46, 38 and 31 head of cattle, all gone. Three days after that, rancher...

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[greybeard]

ya knew it was coming........

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

You mean the invasive Vaqueros took them?

In Texas stolen cattle and horses are investigated by the Texas Rangers. In that state cattle rustling is serious business. They tracked down a stolen horse for me, he was in another county. The woman got in big trouble.

 

[Rafter S]

"Ranchers and local authorities suspected they might have a modern-day case of cattle rustling on their hands."

Ya think?

 

[Brute 23]

There was some local teenagers that got caught stealing cattle in the late 80s around here. One of the guys was from a well known ranching family that did day work and all kinds of stuff. After all the smoke cleared the dad told that son to get in the truck because they were going to the pasture. They thought it was odd because there was like 4 or 5 boys and a sister, I think, so just one never went any where like that. When that son got out to get the gate the dad took a bull whip to him.

I wasn't old enough to remember it but supposedly it was a pretty controversial deal around town. Nothing happed to the dad but I heard he got a pretty stern warning from the sheriff and some other men in town.

 

[greybeard]

You mean the invasive Vaqueros took them?

In Texas stolen cattle and horses are investigated by the Texas Rangers.

And TSCRA

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I brought this sign from Texas.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I have only 'raised' a Texas cattle one time. I was tubing a scouring calf when she struggled, pullled back and got ReSorb in her lungs. She fell down laying flat out gasping and gurgling like they do when they die. I bent over, 'raised' and carried her outside and put her down on a slope facing downhill by the barn to try and drain the fluid. This pulled my shoulder out of joint but that was the least of my problems. She lay there gasping. I went someplace to get help and when I came back and fearing the worst saw turkey vultures circling. I ran to the barn and there she was standing up looking around like Hey, what's happening? In fact this is the calf in the picture.

 

[Ouachita]

There was some local teenagers that got caught stealing cattle in the late 80s around here. One of the guys was from a well known ranching family that did day work and all kinds of stuff. After all the smoke cleared the dad told that son to get in the truck because they were going to the pasture. They thought it was odd because there was like 4 or 5 boys and a sister, I think, so just one never went any where like that. When that son got out to get the gate the dad took a bull whip to him.

I wasn't old enough to remember it but supposedly it was a pretty controversial deal around town. Nothing happed to the dad but I heard he got a pretty stern warning from the sheriff and some other men in town.

I have a great uncle that our family hasn't seen since 1975.
I was born 1970, so just a kid, but I can still remember the few times I seen him; cigarette in one hand and a pint of bourbon in the other.

He was my grandmother's youngest brother, about 20 years younger than her, which would be the same age as my mother. I think that makes him my great uncle.

He got caught rustling cattle and got shot. He was arrested, and healed up and then disappeared while out on bail. Hasn't been seen or heard from since. He'd be about 75 years old now if he's alive.

 

[Dave]

About 15 years ago something similar was going on in SE Oregon / Northern Nevada. They never did catch anyone for it. Portable corral, well mounted cowboys, and a semi to haul them. Vast area and large number of cows. They never missed them until gather and came up 40-50 cows short.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

A friend of mine was once hired to load a set of cows out of pens and haul to the sale barn. He said he'd never been as scared in his life as when the last cow was barely off the trailer and he was "detained" at the sale barn for stolen cattle. He had the neighbor's cows and the sale barn was watching for them. It was a mix up. The set he was supposed to have were a mile down the road. The neighbor just happened to have penned his set as well the night before. My friend assumed he had the directions wrong and got first penned cows he came to.

 

[Brute 23]

A friend of mine was once hired to load a set of cows out of pens and haul to the sale barn. He said he'd never been as scared in his life as when the last cow was barely off the trailer and he was "detained" at the sale barn for stolen cattle. He had the neighbor's cows and the sale barn was watching for them. It was a mix up. The set he was supposed to have were a mile down the road. The neighbor just happened to have penned his set as well the night before. My friend assumed he had the directions wrong and got first penned cows he came to.

That's bad luck

 

[Dave]

Over 50 years ago I was working at a sale yard in Washington. Right after the sale Bob and I left and drove to Tulsa to the IPRA finals. I don't remember how but they got in touch with me in Oklahoma. There were some cattle missing from the yard and me leaving the state at the same time made me a suspect. I talked to them and said I would come in as soon as I got back. Turned out another young guy working there loaded up 5 or 6 head in his girl friends trailer. Dumb thieves. An odd assortment of easy to recognize colored cattle. And they turned them out in a pasture near where I lived. I spotted the cattle a month or two later and the cops got things figured out. Had they taken straight Hereford or Angus they would have got away with it. No brands it was just the certain mix of colors that identified the cattle.

 

[gcreekrch]

There was some local teenagers that got caught stealing cattle in the late 80s around here. One of the guys was from a well known ranching family that did day work and all kinds of stuff. After all the smoke cleared the dad told that son to get in the truck because they were going to the pasture. They thought it was odd because there was like 4 or 5 boys and a sister, I think, so just one never went any where like that. When that son got out to get the gate the dad took a bull whip to him.

I wasn't old enough to remember it but supposedly it was a pretty controversial deal around town. Nothing happed to the dad but I heard he got a pretty stern warning from the sheriff and some other men in town.

I'll bet the kid never stole from anyone again.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

That's bad luck

I failed to that the mixup happened in the Great State of Texas.

 

[Ouachita]

A friend of mine was once hired to load a set of cows out of pens and haul to the sale barn. He said he'd never been as scared in his life as when the last cow was barely off the trailer and he was "detained" at the sale barn for stolen cattle. He had the neighbor's cows and the sale barn was watching for them. It was a mix up. The set he was supposed to have were a mile down the road. The neighbor just happened to have penned his set as well the night before. My friend assumed he had the directions wrong and got first penned cows he came to.

I did the same thing with a trailer that I borrowed to haul a truck from two states away. I pulled into the wrong driveway and latched on to his neighbors trailer, completed the job without him even noticing it was gone.
We both laughed about it and I offered to compensate him for the unintended usage, but he settled for a sack of vine ripe tomatoes

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

It's not a rustling thing but some teenage boys road hunting at night shot one of my husbands cows between the eyes. The next day the kid's dad showed up and wrote a check for the value of the cow and her unborn calf. I bet that kid never did that again.

 

[bird dog]

There was one at Decatur. TX. He would unload calves at the unload area the night before the sale. Pull around to the back of the barn area to the load out area and load up somebody elses's. The few people on duty late in the evening never watched the back of the barn after dark.
It took them a while before they figured that one out.

 

[Ky hills]

It's not a rustling thing but some teenage boys road hunting at night shot one of my husbands cows between the eyes. The next day the kid's dad showed up and wrote a check for the value of the cow and her unborn calf. I bet that kid never did that again.

I've had 2 different instances of people shooting my cattle over the years.
One was somebody must have been driving down the road and shot a registered Angus bred heifer less than 2 months away from calving.
The other time some city move to the country neighbors had some of their relatives visiting them and apparently a youngin got a clear shot from their front porch at one of my around 6 months old Charolais calves.