Shootin' the Bull

[Earl Thigpen]

No, I ain't talkin' about tellin' jokes. Some place I recently read about a feller who had his neighbors cattle in his place and I really wanted to tell him "been there, done that". Well, my favorite neighbor (the one who wouldn't pay for his half of the new fence and the one who stole my "T" posts when the new fence went up) has this really ugly bull that always tears up the fence. He was in my place again and I really thought long and hard about shootin' the SO_ but you folks talked me out of it. (and my .45 was out of ammo)

I think this animal's EPD's are in the negative range. For one thing, his "undercarriage" nearly drags the ground (normally) and I guess when he came through the fence it got caught - really looks bad (poor baby). Hope it rots off.

I didn't shoot him but you know that thingy you mount on the front of your truck to keep cattle out of the grill - he did get a taste of that just as he went back through the fence. Wound up having to fix the fence in three places, though. Guess I'm gonna have to electrify the fence again.

Oh, well. Life is a beach then you die.

 

[KNERSIE]

next time put him in the chute and use a burdizzo, tell no one.

works a treat, been there, done that, neighbour's got very few calves to prove it :roll:

 

[Ryder]

next time put him in the chute and use a burdizzo, tell no one.

works a treat, been there, done that, neighbour's got very few calves to prove it :roll:

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :clap: :clap:

 

[Ryder]

Well, my favorite neighbor (the one who wouldn't pay for his half of the new fence and the one who stole my "T" posts when the new fence went up) has this really ugly bull that always tears up the fence. He was in my place again and I really thought long and hard about shootin' the SO_ but you folks talked me out of it. (and my .45 was out of ammo)

Sounds to me like you were thinking about shooting the wrong SO_.

 

[Earl Thigpen]

next time put him in the chute and use a burdizzo, tell no one.

works a treat, been there, done that, neighbour's got very few calves to prove it :roll:

HA! Never thought of that!!!!! I got a pair of those, too. Hot dang, good idea.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Earl, The sherrif started rounding up one neighbor's cattle and taking them to the county shelter. He had to pay to get them out. That was on his place about 8 miles up the road. I fed a dozen of his cows for a couple of months on his place next to mine. He didn't feed them during the winter. I fixed fence every day. Now all I have to do is pen them and call the sherrif, if I wanted to. Those cows have not been a problem for the last month or so.

 

[oscar p]

Load him up on your trailer and haul his a$$ to the sale barn and sell him in your neighbors name and tell them to mail the check. If he ask deni the hello out of it. I tranqulize cattle for the public, and 3 salebarns. I have tranqulized and hauled more bulls to the salebarn than I can count that belonged to other people, that wouldn't keep their bull on their side of the fence. After they signed a release form releaseing me from any liablity.

 

[dewey]

Load him up on your trailer and haul his a$$ to the sale barn and sell him in your neighbors name and tell them to mail the check. If he ask deni the hello out of it. I tranqulize cattle for the public, and 3 salebarns. I have tranqulized and hauled more bulls to the salebarn than I can count that belonged to other people, that wouldn't keep their bull on their side of the fence. After they signed a release form releaseing me from any liablity.

that license plate written down on that check-in slip is hard to deny. if someones cattle stay on your place best is contact the SO and then let them haul them to the sale barn. after 30 days if they are not claimed by anyone then they can sale in the SO of the county they was in and you can collect your feed bill or any fees out of that check. if they do come and claim them then they have to pay all feed bills catchin fees etc before getting them back. i dont know how things in other states work but that is how most do it around these parts.

 

[oscar p]

Take your tag off. Case closed.

 

[Txwalt]

About 300ft of my property line is not fenced. The part the barn is on. Most of my property is cross fenced. The neighbor one property over doesn't care to much when his fence goes down. His cows have been grazing on my property and the neighbor between us. They got in the barn once on the day we ran out of feed, luckily. We put a gate on the barn so they can't get in when we restocked the feed. I've talked to him twice already. Three strikes and your out. I just don't have the time to get the fence up for a couple of months due to prior commitements. I didn't think my neighbor would be so flippant about his cows wondering around. With the spring foliage they don't get on the road and stay on the pastures. I don't want to start a fued with the guy so I'll try to talk to him one more time. :roll:

Walt

 

[peg4x4]

We truley do have a Livestock Officer here..you might also..Call the SO and do everything legal ..You might be supprised at how well that works out..

 

[Caustic Burno]

Load him up on your trailer and haul his a$$ to the sale barn and sell him in your neighbors name and tell them to mail the check. If he ask deni the hello out of it. I tranqulize cattle for the public, and 3 salebarns. I have tranqulized and hauled more bulls to the salebarn than I can count that belonged to other people, that wouldn't keep their bull on their side of the fence. After they signed a release form releaseing me from any liablity.

Thats rustling in Texas better hope he is not a TSCRA member because they will prosecute to the fullest.

 

[Caustic Burno]

About 300ft of my property line is not fenced. The part the barn is on. Most of my property is cross fenced. The neighbor one property over doesn't care to much when his fence goes down. His cows have been grazing on my property and the neighbor between us. They got in the barn once on the day we ran out of feed, luckily. We put a gate on the barn so they can't get in when we restocked the feed. I've talked to him twice already. Three strikes and your out. I just don't have the time to get the fence up for a couple of months due to prior commitements. I didn't think my neighbor would be so flippant about his cows wondering around. With the spring foliage they don't get on the road and stay on the pastures. I don't want to start a fued with the guy so I'll try to talk to him one more time. :roll:

Walt

Laws are very plain in Texas call the Sheriff and get his animals impounded.

Sec. 142.003. DISCOVERY OF ESTRAY; NOTICE.
(a) If an estray, without being herded with other livestock, roams about the property of a person without that person's permission or roams about public property, the owner of the private property or the custodian of the public property, as applicable, shall, as soon as reasonably possible, report the presence of the estray to the sheriff of the county in which the estray is discovered.
(b) After receiving a report under Subsection (a) of this section that an estray has been discovered on private property, the sheriff or the sheriff's designee shall notify the owner, if known, that the estray's location has been reported.
(c) After receiving a report under Subsection (a) of this section that an estray has been discovered on public property, the sheriff or the sheriff's designee shall notify the owner, if known, that the estray's location has been reported, except that if the sheriff or his designee determines that the estray is dangerous to the public, he may immediately impound the estray without notifying the owner. If the owner does not immediately remove the estray, the sheriff or the sheriff's designee shall proceed with the impoundment process prescribed by Section 142.009 of this code.

 

[bward]

We are neighbours to people who raise rodeo stock... both bucking horses and bucking bulls. The horses have been the worst as they tend to just run through the fences and take out long lines of it when they do. The neighbours are a pain in the neck. They don't feed well and the animals overgraze whats there and the livestock go looking for feed elsewhere. ie my breeding pastures.

Then there is me who raise purebreds and have certain bulls out with certain cows in seperate feilds. That is quickly ruined by rodeo bulls looking for a good time. Once they are in here they are almost impossible to move as they don't "herd" and they get po'd in a hurry. I have dented fenders on my truck to illistrate that point.

This year one of our commercial cows had a white speckled baby. I was extremely annoyed over this but I had to make the phone call. He offered to pay for the calf as it is unmarketable with my calf crop, and I asked him to put up a solar powered electric fence on the inside of his property line along the fence.

One time his bull got in here we had managed to trap him in the cow shelter and this bull was charging the vehicles and was a danger to all. We did get the 3030 and were prepared to use it when finally the owner showed up. He couldn't believe his gentle bull was misbehaving and hopped into the shelter with him and promptly got put under a truck. I just hate being neighbours with this guy because he is often not at home as he has a lot of other projects on the go... land elsewhere, a job etc. He spent a time and money pounding in posts along our fenceline to double the amount of posts and also add another wire but it didn't take long for the horses to run through that.

The joy of neighbours. :x

 

[GMN]

I guess the animals that get out could just disappear one day, and you could play the game, nope don't know what happened to them.

GMN