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.
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.