Re: Cows are out!

Posted by wisbaker on September 11, 2017 at 20:36:05 from (173.30.119.179):

In Reply to: Cows are out! posted by DeltaRed on September 10, 2017 at 19:24:24:

We had someone stop by our farm one day to inform us we had cows out, and we had a group of bottle calves that were for what ever reason pretty good at finding all the weak spots in our fences so we weren't that surprised. Anyway I loudly dump some feed in the bunk and start calling our cows and they come into the barnyard I start counting trying to figure out what's missing, after all we had 9 cows out in the pasture it shouldn't be that hard right? Well I counted 10 cows, yep 10 and I hear some noise in the swampy area to the side of the house, it turns out to be another cow. Well we get the one out of the yard into the barn and the stranger out of the herd into the same barn and we're wondering what to do (call neighbors? call the sheriff/animal control?) when we see a local live stock hauler driving down the road real slow and rubber necking, we wave him into the farm yard and ask him what's going on. He sheepishly admit's he's missing two steers, we asked him a few more questions than asked him if he'd like to back up to the barn and load his steers up. Seems his trailer had a double kind of gate where the whole gate was hinged like a regular door and part of that door was a slider, he didn't have the slider latched it slid open and the cows bailed on him. He was pretty happy to find the steers although one of them got a little road rash when he jumped and he felt he was going to have to turn that one into his insurance. He offered to make it worth our trouble but with all the problems we were having with that group we were raising we declined any reward because we'd probably need some grace from the neighbors on our cows being out within a month or so anyway. He offered to haul cattle to the local auction or slaughter house for us once for free and we left it at that, don't know that we ever took him up on his offer.

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