Just another Monday

[BCCC]

Well we have had an eventfull day! Woke up this morning to some lovely thick fog, little did I know a half hour later we would have 7 dead calves on the highway. We moved 95 head of stocker cattle yesterday to a different wheat pasture along the highway. Had the fence good and hot but something must have spooked them and they broke the fence all but 27 head were out. Well 3 got hit by a trash truck, and 2 got hit by ford trucks and no idea what hit the others. After 12 hours of looking and each cowboy wearing out 2 horses we finally found all but 3 calves in about a 5 mile radius. Even worse these calves were going to the sale this Friday. Well we had finally given up on the last 3 and where headed to town, and got another cow that 150 cows were out about 30 miles away. So we headed that way and got them all back in and started trying to find the break in the fence, and guess what we found? The seismograph crew had drove through the fence and spliced it with a 6 foot piece of ROPE We have had quite the Monday and the perfect start to the new year! <beer>

 

[DFSC]

That just plain sucks ... I'm sorry to hear!

 

[farmboy]

Legal action now.

 

[linnettejane]

wow

 

[braunvieh]

Sorry to hear about your day. No one ever wants to have that kind of luck and I hope there is a way you can recover some of your loss.
We had a bad start to our new year as well. Could not find two young cows after the Xmas storms and after 3 hours of walking the pasture creek and trees and all around the area we found them....dead, drowned in a boggy area where they fell through the ice. My dad has rented this pasture for over 30 years and has never had a cow drown in it but it happened. No fun but part of the deal I guess.

I hope your week gets better.

 

[shortdawg]

Similar thing happened to my neighbor but his was with the electrical crew. They wired the ground for the light pole to his fence and killed it. Took forever for him to find it. Only one calf dead ( struck by truck ).

 

[coachmac]

dad gum, nothing good right there, but I am with Zach, I wouldn't take the blame for someone elses ignorance.  Sorry to hear that! 

 

[the angus111]

Karlton,my wife passed that yesterday said it was a mess,sorry to hear that.those seismograph crews act like they own the place,i thought they were gone.was it last year seaboard dropped a load of hogs around that area?rusty

 

[CAB]

These ponds and watering holes are going to be different this winter. The ice isn't very thick b/c of the deeper snow on them. Sorry to hear about everyone's losses. I'm ready for  a Jan thaw. The longer this weather hands on, the worse it seems to get. The cold is burrowing into things as the cold days slowly go by. Be careful all. Brent

 

[Jill]

Sounds like 2010 isn't starting out to be any better than 2009. :'(

 

[herefordfootball]

Sorry to hear about that Karlton. Hope you guys can get some sort of compensation for your calves. Hope 2010 gets better, thats a sad way to start off the year.

 

[Diamond]

and here was to havng a better year, sorry for wat happened. We have two really close friends who left for war and new years would be my last goodbye... but we had one of our mares colic so I had to stay with her, go figure this horse never gets sick but that night, lucky. well I hope it goes up from here for you, everyone, and myself.  :

 

[mark tenenbaum]

Im really sorry to hear that-nobody wants thier animals hurt-especially thru that kind of carelessness-you have allways been real helpfull on SP-Id get a lawyer-they are also responsible (probably) for damage done to the vehicles-drivers that hit your cattle. O0 (angel)

 

[BCCC]

It was definitely a mess yesterday. I am talking about 2 different sets of cattle. The set that the seismegraph crew ran through the fence was a set of older cows that nothing got hit just a another pain. The ones that got hit were 750 that have been on a few different wheat pastures by the highway and we had never had a problem with them. Well we moved them Sunday AM and something must have spooked them late at night as Monday the fence was broke and when we finally spotted them in the fog they were very waspy. We had a terrible time getting them to the feed yard(closest set of corals) we were getting close(only a mile) and we had to cross a paved road that went to 2 feedyards so pretty busy. I had called the sheriff a couple hours earlier and told them that we would need some help with the traffic well we got the cattle to the road and they werent gona stop and the cops weren't there yet. Well the cattle decided that they were goning to stop on the road(in the bottom of a very steep draw. Well guess what comes through a semi. He saw my boss on the road first and then all the cattle and luckly got slowed down fast and didn't hit anyone or anything but he was scared $hit less(litrealy). Just got done hauling water to the cows and the thumpers had been through again but actually put the fence down(just not back up) sorry for the long post! Hope everyone elses year has had a much better start.

Rusty it was 2 years ago when seabord was having quite the time with droping pigs off trucks. And it was deffinatly a mess I drove up on it and as the fog cleared up as you drove you would just see more dead cattle on the sides of the road