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Calves Reported Stolen

HAY MAKER

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Freshly Banded Bull
Calves Reported Stolen

HEREFORD, Texas — Law enforcement authorities were looking for rustlers and missing cattle this week in the Texas Panhandle.

Kenneth Chambers with the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association says rustlers cut the lock on the front gate of the XCL Feedyard on Farm to Market Road 1058 six miles west of Hereford sometime the night of April 10, and stole 63 head of mixed steers and bulls weighing about 550 pounds each.

"There were 23 head of steers and 40 head of bulls," Chambers says.

The cattle had come into the feedyard the morning of April 10 and were worked.

Chambers says two of the bulls were castrated, but they were heavy bleeders so the other 38 were banded.

"Most of the cattle had tipped horns," he says.

The cattle had gray eartags in the left ear with the number 1305 on the tags.
"There may have also have been three head of mixed steers branded with a 4X on the left hip or left side," Chambers says.

He asks anyone with any information to contact him at (806) 258-7555 or Deaf Smith County Sheriff Brent Harrison at (806) 323-2311.
 

Lonecowboy

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too bad the gray eartags wern't the new mandatory NAIS electronic
eartags-----then these cattle could be tracked down in 48 hours !!! :)
 

Faster horses

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..."may have also have been 3 mixed steers with them". Good grief,
don't they KNOW??

If they don't know that, what else don't they know?

Just a thought.
 
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Anonymous

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Lonecowboy said:
too bad the gray eartags wern't the new mandatory NAIS electronic
eartags-----then these cattle could be tracked down in 48 hours !!! :)

:lol: :lol: :lol: Thank you- made my day!!
 

ranch hand

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quote="Faster horses"]..."may have also have been 3 mixed steers with them". Good grief,
don't they KNOW??

If they don't know that, what else don't they know?

Just a thought.
[/quote]

I am sure they have lots of cattle in this feedlot. Heck if someone stold animals from my boss we probably wouldn't know what or how many unitl fall.
 

Faster horses

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I'm sorry, but don't they have to know how many cattle are in a pen for
the purpose of feeding them the right amount?

I think most feedlots know how many are in a pen.

The Padlock had 13,000 cattle on feed and they always knew how
many were in a pen.

Just a thought~
 

pknoeber

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Faster horses said:
I'm sorry, but don't they have to know how many cattle are in a pen for
the purpose of feeding them the right amount?

I think most feedlots know how many are in a pen.

The Padlock had 13,000 cattle on feed and they always knew how
many were in a pen.

Just a thought~

FH, I think the 3 head deal was just for ID purposes. They knew how many head were in there, but I think they meant that out of the total, 3 of them might have that brand.

I would hazard a guess that this feedyard is probably at least 30-40,000 head. I have family that lives N of Hereford & I know that at times the airport right next to town gets closed b/c of the pall of dust from the yards. It's amazing the number of cattle in that county, within probably a 2 mile radius of the city limits of Hereford would be at least 200,000+ capacity in feedyards.

Phil
 

Jerry H

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isn't this a heck of a deal i live maybe ten miles from that feed lot and i have to hear about this on the internet
i think that if we had brand laws here as thay do in other states we would have fewer cattle stolen in this area and we would have better brand inspectors also
we run a lot of cattle on these ranches we take care of and we have to count them almost every day for that and other reasons
 

Ben H

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passin thru said:
And if you had one of them ear tags in yer pocket they could track you also...................wouldn't life be great.

Is that supposed to be a joke or do you really believe that? Electronic ID's don't work like that, they aren't GPS transmitters. All they do is give a reading device a number when scanned from a close proximity. The way animals are tracked is that scanned number is typed into a database which will show movement records...if the database is created and maintained that is.
 

Brad S

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Pssst, check your sarchasm meter Ben; those guys are ridiculing MID


Don't mean to be Cap'n Obvious here, but those big theft deals were employees.
 

Ben H

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just checking that's why I aksed the first question I did, I wasn't sure if it was a joke or not, there are actually some people who believe that.
 

Heel Fly

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I've got a way to track cattle without eartags or chips and it works like a charm when reinforced it's called BRANDING. Our government is going to spend how much? And if they would just make branding manditory they could find the origin of the cattle just as fast and the brand won't fall out!! Furthermore stolen cattle are easier to find.
 

Faster horses

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Heel Fly, that has been discussed and cussed on this forum in the past.
There have been both pro's and con's. As for me, I wonder what good
does the brand do when the hide is off? You have all those thousand
upon thousand of carcasses...and the hides are in a pile. So what hide
goes with what carcass?

Just wondering, actually been wondering this for quite awhile. :p

Maybe it's not a problem after the hide is off. Maybe the reason for
tracking something is while the cattle are still alive.

I hope someone can answer my ponderings...
 

ranch hand

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Faster horses said:
Heel Fly, that has been discussed and cussed on this forum in the past.
There have been both pro's and con's. As for me, I wonder what good
does the brand do when the hide is off? You have all those thousand
upon thousand of carcasses...and the hides are in a pile. So what hide
goes with what carcass?

Just wondering, actually been wondering this for quite awhile. :p

Maybe it's not a problem after the hide is off. Maybe the reason for
tracking something is while the cattle are still alive.

I hope someone can answer my ponderings...

Doesn't the ear come off with the hide? Maybe they are hanging carcasses with the head still attached now.
 
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Anonymous

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ranch hand said:
Faster horses said:
Heel Fly, that has been discussed and cussed on this forum in the past.
There have been both pro's and con's. As for me, I wonder what good
does the brand do when the hide is off? You have all those thousand
upon thousand of carcasses...and the hides are in a pile. So what hide
goes with what carcass?

Just wondering, actually been wondering this for quite awhile. :p

Maybe it's not a problem after the hide is off. Maybe the reason for
tracking something is while the cattle are still alive.

I hope someone can answer my ponderings...

Doesn't the ear come off with the hide? Maybe they are hanging carcasses with the head still attached now.

Yep- Or whoever has possession at the moment can stick in a new eartag :???:

I'm not going to argue the pros and cons of Mandatory ID concerning cattle--Making their proposed system work with cattle will be extremely difficult in the real world- but the nightmare will come with horses...

I received a notification from AQHA and the working committee that had developed the proposed ID system for horses-- they are now asking USDA and APHIS for a couple more years to implement it-- appears they are seeing what the real problems will be out in the real world.....

As proposed horses will need to be inspected and/or have a movement report filed every time they leave a designated premise or area (county ?) and/or are comingled with other horses or animals...That would mean getting an inspection and/or filing a movement report each time you went to a neighbors to help brand, sort cattle, trail to pasture- or when your neighbors came over to help you and brought their horses...Also each evening you went to team rope, o-mok-see, rodeo, trailride, or whatever....

It is, as proposed, so restrictive to almost be unworkable-definitely is not user friendly...Hopefully USDA will listen and allow some major changes......
 
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