Got cattle?

[baboon]

I had to go grocery shopping this morning which for me is 30 minutes one way. I don't know whats going on, but I never seen so much beef outside their fences as today. And they were spread out along most my trip. Just last week I notice a unlucky cow taking a nap along 39. She was fresh because the turkey buzzards hadn't even found her yet. Hopefully whatever she collided with was big enough to survive the hit.

 

[rr2241tx]

When the grass goes dormant in the pasture from heat and lack of rain the ditches are often still somewhat green. Cattle can see the difference. Surprisingly, cattle are pretty good jumpers, easily clearing a 6 foot fence with no run up. Common cattle fencing is just over 4 feet tall. Most will stay inside the fence but now and then you get a jumper. We usually haul the jumpers to the next auction but sometimes a clueless drunk townie tests the frontal impact performance of his vehicle against a cow that’s totally mystified by cars at high speed with brights ablazing. When we drive in the pastures, cows have the right of way.

 

[TexasRedneck]

Yup - the dry pastures are gonna make the roadway look like a bovine AYCE buffet. Happiest day of my life was takin' the last of my cows to market 20 years ago.

 

[Texan79423]

No cows but do have a cowboy hat. Black angus lives matter.

 

[baboon]

In one of the groups of escapees along 164 there were a couple of calves that were playfully enjoying themselves no doubt from a belly full of energy freshly eaten.

 

[TexasRedneck]

No cows but do have a cowboy hat. Black angus lives matter.

Was in a restaurant one afternoon - idiot a table over started up on me for whatever reason, said the old "All hat, no cattle" line (I was wearing my <even then> worn-out straw work hat>. I looked at him and laughed. Buddy I was with told him he'd just helped me move about 50 head from one pasture to another. Yeah - I don't miss them days!

 

[Younggun]

Just takes one cow to make it halfway over the fence, then you got an spot low enough for the rest to step over.

 

[Axxe55]

Just takes one cow to make it halfway over the fence, then you got an spot low enough for the rest to step over.

and cows are pretty good at finding any weak spots they can use to get out!

 

[TexasRedneck]

and cows are pretty good at finding any weak spots they can use to get out!

Unless it's a Longhorn....them SOB's just hook the fence and lift!

 

[Axxe55]

Unless it's a Longhorn....them SOB's just hook the fence and lift!

long horns are pretty smart

 

[Big Dipper]

long horns are pretty smart

Not the ones in Austin.

 

[TexasRedneck]

long horns are pretty smart

Not so much.....had one charge us one day coming out of the pasture after a hunt.

Did I mention I hunt with a 7mm mag? Right in the brain pan.........I HATE Longhorns!!

 

[Eastexasrick]

Never dealt with a long horn but I have had a few close scrapes with a Holstein bull. They will stalk you with all intent to kill you. Not too many fences can hold back a 2000+ pounder with a bad attitude. They belong in the freezer, not my land.

 

[John Sam Rayburn]

When the grass goes dormant in the pasture from heat and lack of rain the ditches are often still somewhat green.

Interesting and good explanation. Thanks.


On another note, I choose to believe that cattle wandering around on public roadways are free for the taking.

Now I need to figure out how to get them into the bed of my truck without shooting them first.

 

[TipBledsoe]

^ that’s a good way to get yourself dead

 

[baboon]

Interesting and good explanation. Thanks.


On another note, I choose to believe that cattle wandering around on public roadways are free for the taking.

Now I need to figure out how to get them into the bed of my truck without shooting them first.

Current law punishes cattle thieves with a third-degree felony, which is punishable by as much as 10 years in prison and a fine of as much as $10,000 if they steal more than 10 head of cattle, horses or exotic livestock.

 

[TexasRedneck]

Current law punishes cattle thieves with a third-degree felony, which is punishable by as much as 10 years in prison and a fine of as much as $10,000 if they steal more than 10 head of cattle, horses or exotic livestock.

Or dead by lead......country folk don't play.

 

[baboon]

Or dead by lead......country folk don't play.

I imagine most cattle rancher have a tractor suitable to bury a body.

 

[TexasRedneck]

I imagine most cattle rancher have a tractor suitable to bury a body.

Or a brush hog an' a passel of hungry hogs......

 

[John Sam Rayburn]

Current law punishes cattle thieves with a third-degree felony

Yeah but see, they are like dogs and ducks at the park.

If they are just wandering around on public land unattended, it's not stealing to take them home.

It's called "Rescue & Re-Home".