branguscowgirl":3qxe1zp2 said:If the shoe were on the other foot and my cow or bull was in the neighbors pasture, I would want to get them myself. Mainly because my cattle are halter broke (or at least bucket broke) and would follow me anywhere. Making for an easy, quiet transfer. I would try to call them back over to the hole in the fence, otherwise I would not enter the neighbors property with out their permission first.
However if we were friends and had an understanding about entering one another's property, that would be ok too.
The ones that need that I make sure that I tell the owner before I even try to get them out. I got reamed by a guy that accused me of trying to steal a cow after she died while we were loading her that way. He'd lost the lease three years earlier due in no small part to the disposition of his cattle and we got one of the worst of them in the corrals and she fought herself to death. I called him and told him and he accused me of selling his cattle so the next morning I showed up on his porch with her brand and notched ear in the flesh and told him where to stick them.Bigfoot":61lt8xl1 said:We had to neck this one, and drag it on a trailer.
Tim/South":zj41sfod said:I have kept stray cows here for a while until the owner realized they were missing.
I had one strange thing happen a few years ago.
We had sold all our cattle, got out for a couple of years. A neighbor told me our electric fence was down and our cows were close to the road. I went to look and there was a small herd of cows, calves and a bull in that pasture. It was winter and they were healthy living on the stockpiled fescue and clover.
A cattle trader leases a pasture down the creek but had sold everything that fall, never took any through the winter. I called the land owner and asked if they were about 20 head short when they sold that fall. He said the trader said the numbers came out exact.
A few hours later the trader called and asked how many head were there. I said About 20 and a bull.
He said that was exactly how many he was missing.
They brought some panels and fed them up, hauled them to the sale.
Deepsouth":16q3yi0h said:Im sure glad I have good neighbors. I'd hate to have the neighbors that some of you guys have. I'd also hate to have some of you guys as neighbors. It's a lot easier working with people than against them.