Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Neighbor won’t keep his cows up.

Don’t paint with a broad brush. That Russian interior decorator on The Sopranos was a badass. He took it to Pauly and Christopher big time. I agree that racists are scum, btw.

I do just that with my other neighbors’ cattle. Unless it’s bad, I don’t even call. Just put the cows up and fix the fence. These cows rarely get out.

As I said before, these animals are coming a long way and crossing one if not two other farms to get here. I don’t know how you feel about trespassing, but I’m not inclined to do it.

Could be you don’t know what you’re talking about. I asked for advice. It is evident that is above your pay grade. See the post above for further explanation if you are capable of reading comprehension.

On someone else's schitt that gains me nothing.

Kill a beef and have 500+ pounds of beef in the freezer within 3 hours seems more reasonable.

get a rope......

And a gambrel.

I'd call his boss.

We had a similar problem years ago. Neighbors cows getting out and getting into a hay barn. Told the neighbor about it and they claimed it wasn't their cattle, so I told the neighbor that since they were wild cattle (didn't belong to anyone) that I was gonna shoot them, starting the next afternoon when I went to the barn to get hay. That next morning, the neighbor had about a doz. people fixing their fence. No more problems.

I'm pretty sure there's a fence law in Tn. You have to repair your fences, and keep your stock in. If your stock is out and gets in the road, and somebody hits it, it's pretty much your ass.

I have read most of the thread. I get it that you don't want to spend money or have ill will with your irresponsible neighbors. You have a problem that you shouldn't have to deal with but you do. The law may not help you they tend to hang together. That leaves you the reasonable option to fence out. The cheapest way to do that will be electric fence mentioned. Or at least fence your garden off.

A simple...Hey, your cattle got out and I fixed the gap this time. Sure hope it doesn't again.

I had a close neighbor that had goats , a couple of ‘‘em kept getting out and getting in my calf feed in my tractor shed, I peppered their azzes with a 12 gauge one afternoon, problem solved.

I’m having cow meat for dinner.





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One is a sheriff's deputy haha

We had that happen one time. They got into my wife's Hosta plants. We showed the neighbor a picture of the damaged Hostas with a row of 4 A1 Steak sauce bottles by them. The neighbor is a nice guy who offered to pay for the damage but we refused. The Hostas grew back and the neighbor fixed the fence... that day

I would expect that this isn't a matter of quickly fixing a fence. I bet his fences are in terrible shape all the way around and he probably likes the idea of them ranging around the countryside eating what they find. Pasture and feed are the huge cost with cattle and he probably doesn't have enough of either. Compounding the problem is that now those cows are used to roaming and it will be hard for any but the best of tight fence to hold them in. Fences are just a suggestion if cattle really want out or in.

I think you will either have to live with this or do what I did with my deputy neighbor. I penned the cattle in my corral and told him if he didn't want to sell them to me that they had to leave on a trailer and not come back. I gave him a price I would pay which he wisely turned down and they ended up sold at the sale. I wasn't even considering turning them back loose on my place so they could try to drive them home. Once they had gotten filled up on my clover they would have walked through the other 3 properties to get back on our place every day. My fences hold our cattle really well but those cattle came right on in.

Go borrow some portable pen panels and capture them. He will not enjoy having to come get them.

Cut out the slicks and take em to the sale barn 😏

Haven’t seen them in a couple of days. Maybe they finally fixed the problem.

If that's the case then your first discussion should be with the sheriff himself.

I'd be a shame if one disappeared and coincidentally you found a freezer full of beef......It could happen....