49 cattle stolen from Mass. farm

Chief Cook · #21 09/06/12, 01:43 PM

The pastures out here are so big that most animals are killed and quartered up right there. If they go out during the middle of the week, the thieves really don't worry about anyone coming along. Still I haven't heard of many cows being taken. One man killed a calf down here by the river. I'll bet he wondered how they found him. He left his knife next to what he left. Duh. I hope that no one on HT gets hit by these thieves. Please stay safe out there!

sugarspinner · #22 09/06/12, 02:03 PM

Bret, don't know where you live in IN but the "tip off cows" don't live near us because we've had this sort of thing for years; cattle and hogs. Once we installed a night light to help discourage hog stealing and the thief used that light to just butcher the hog right in the barnlot; took the hams and loins. Once our son announced (when he thought the "right" people were in attendance) in a local hang-out that we were through calling the sheriff and planning to put the Colt policy into practice. The calf that had been stolen the night before showed up the next morning about 2 A.M. in the barnlot, bawling for mom. Not been any livestock stealing here since.

grandma12703 · #23 09/07/12, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

I havnt heard much of that here in Okla. I guess its cause we have trees with limbs that hang straight out, and some of them are in down and lowly places in big range pastures where nobody would notice them, Or the pecans or whatever that was hanging from them lol

Oh it happens in Oklahoma. We came from a town where there were several arrests for that very thing. It is usually people you would never think would do something like that. One was a guy who worked for a very large rancher but he never took their cattle only the neighbors..

solidwoods · #24 09/07/12, 10:44 AM

Could the ID device that can be inserted in domestic animals be used for Cows?
If it contains material that a metal detector sees it could be cut out.
But if sales private and commercial had to be predicated on "the Cow must have the ID device" then stolen Cows would have to go far underground to a very small scale black market which typically collapses that business model.
jim
P.S. I'm not a more rules person.
I'm a less rules, simpler rules person.
Good luck.
jim