Neighbors Cows on My Property

[SC-Texas]

You know nothing about ranching. Cows are penned up, but sometimes the fence gets knocked down for whatever reason. And you know what, half of the fence is yours. Pony up, grow a set, and fix the dang fence. Or call the neighbor. Or run the cow back onto its property. It is not that dang hard. But surely, dont shoot the cow. That way of thinking is absolutely ridiculous and will get you sued and get your *** kicked.



So, now we went from 400 lbs of protein to 500 lbs of corn. Again, fix the fence, call the neighbor, run the cows off, etc.



Obviously, you don't know much about cows and that shows. Do you know how much a cow can eat in one day, if the source is there? Apparently not and that is obvious. It does not take long for a cow to clean up 500 lbs. Why do you think ranchers feed bales of hay, rather than letting the cows in the barn and eat whatever they want. It is not like the cows are there for a week or 2. When the food is gone, the cow will most likely move on or by that time, the owner will know he is missing a cow and come looking for it. Would you want a farmer looking for his cow during the day while you are hunting and tromping all over your hunting land? Heck no because then you would be on here whining and moaning about that. I can tell you that if I am missing a cow, I sure am not going to be walking around the woods looking for it while hunting season is going on. If hunting is the business, they might want to check that high fence and get it repaired. I dont know many deer "business" that are on low fence.

I dont advocate cows running loose and agree that the fence should be fixed and cows kept penned up, but to shoot one like someone on here said earlier in the thread is absolutely ridiculous and stupid.

Lol. I know a lot more than you think I do. So thanks for playing.

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[doghouse]

Invasive species will also be spread by critters. Look under big tree's at the cedar, etc, growing underneath them.

[SC-Texas]

Invasive species will also be spread by critters. Look under big tree's at the cedar, etc, growing underneath them.

There is truth to that

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[Kbar]

Apparently the original thread that I revived from 3 years ago that went sideways while I was driving home. I think this is some good information so i am reposting it.


SC - could you please provide the original post?
I just find it hard to believe that this one (post) is a year old and it is back-tracking to something from 3 years before 2017.

Thanks

[Lawhunter]

About those briskets....

I don’t have a problem hunting feral cattle. What do you charge?

[stevieray54]

what about the birds and critters that eat your corn, who do you make pay for that or do you all kill the song birds.
Some of you guys that call yourselves stewards of nature and example setters to younger generations.

[meltingfeather]

And if thats all you focused on. . . . . . 400 or 500 or typo. Doesn't change the facts and the general issue.

And there’s that...

[SC-Texas]

Apparently the original thread that I revived from 3 years ago that went sideways while I was driving home. I think this is some good information so i am reposting it.


SC - could you please provide the original post?
I just find it hard to believe that this one (post) is a year old and it is back-tracking to something from 3 years before 2017.

Thanks

It got nuked from orbit.

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[twobanger]

Our neighbor sprayed his land to kill everything on it to plant a better kind of grass for his cattle but then the drought hit. We used our property to grow hay for goats kept at another hill country property.

When we went there his cattle were on it and when we walked our property we found he had cut the fence to let them go on ours. We pushed the cattle back through the fence (not an easy job for us “city slickers”) and fixed the fence. When we went back a couple of weeks later the cattle were back on and he’d cut the fence again. This time I didn’t fix it and ran them out the gate (access to this property is on a dirt road off off another dirt road off of an fm road).

Problem solved.

[MB650]

Call the sheriff department. I catch cattle for ours and most departments have a cowboy that will come do that.

As for the invasive species, birds and deer probably spread more than cows, mainly birds.

Put up a single wire electric fence along the boundary fence if the original fence is beyond repair. That is a lot cheaper than a new barbed wire fence.
Problem solved.

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[sharpstick35]

yup. a solar electric fence works wonders. I have about 40 head on one of my places so I fence off all but 1 feeder ( keeps out hogs too ) and from around the house they'll chew up things word than a dog.

[MDemel]

Looks like your doubledown is putting the weight on that Beefmaster.

AntlerMax 20 for the win.

Ran double down sid by side next to AntlerMax 20 and hands down the deer tore up the AntlerMax. Were running through about 200lb/week (without the pesky beef).

[texan4ut]

Put a fence/pen around you feeder,feeders they will quit coming.

[MDemel]

According to some people on here, you should probably shoot that cow for chasing the deer away from the feeder. Use the SSS method that a lot of people.on here use. Just like all those dogs that are chasing the deer away, this cow is chasing the deer from the feeder.

Im going to take the high road on this one, Both our ranches were hit by Harvey, it has been a long process to fix especially with the continuous wet conditions we have been experiencing. At the end of the day, a hundred pounds of protein here and there ain't worth the cost of a good neighbor.

[Flint knapper]

From what I've been told:
1. you should first contact the owners of the cows.
2. Then you should contact the local sheriff and let him know about the animals being on your place.
3. Document any damage to your place( feed that they ate, or damage to fences or other property)
4. Send a bill to the rancher that refuses to come get his cattle!
5. There is a time limit where you can take the cattle to the local sale and then have them send the selling price to the owner of the cattle!