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| I sold my cattle, rented my pasture out. Got call @9am. “The renters cattle are out on your soybeans”
So I called owner, went out, opened my corral. Owner shows up, “not my cattle”.
But we lock them in corral, calling anyone who they might be. @11am owner shows up.
He was thinking of driving them home. .??? I suggested he haul them. 23 @+1000 lb cows, couple steers.. so I ask. “Do you have a trailer”. It’s @ 5 miles by road. Driving them across everyone’s fields?
Yes he has a trailer. I mention 97F they have not had water since 6am (when he said he saw they, others were out)
I told him. It would take me 2 hours to bring @250 gallons. Those cattle were overheated, breathing way to fast, tongues out after we walked then into corral. He said a hour to start getting.
1 pm I call, leave message. 4 pm I get his wife. “He is broadcasting fertilizer, he plans to get them tonight.”
I am a bit ticked. It’s 4 pm, no call, those poor cattle are locked in a corral I have not maintained for @8 years, 150 yards from the river.
I would have aired up tires on home built cattle trailer, hauled them 5 at a time. I am worried there will be dead animals by 7pm.
I have a @250 tote I used to use for water, could fill, give most a sip. Who leaves cattle in sun, 97F+ 16% humidity all day? | |
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Concern about cattle that are not mine…
