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Ok. I thought I would try this to get a little help and insight on what I can do. At least 3 times a month my neighbors bull "calls" up our bull. They do their pushing and hitting each other until the fence is tore down. Ok, this is MY fence. I have been on this property for 24years. The neighbors have only lived there not even 10 years. Everytime this happens I call the neighbor to inform him that his bull has once AGAIN tore down the fence...MY FENCE. He has no concern. Most of the time he will not answer the phone or door. GROW UP! My father is unable to fix fence being 70 years old and my mom being 63. I am not there full time to help them with this so here they are doing the best they can. No neighbor help ...money or man power. What can be done? We are in the state of Texas.
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Here is how my neighbors fixed their fence I saw it before it got tore down but I didn't have a camera!

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No, you aren't imagining things, that is orange plastic twine.
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Of course you cut every wire so short it won't wrap around the post. I am 40 years old and this is the second time they fixed fence that I know of. The first time my Dad replaced the whole fence on one side and they took every other post out to fix the rest of the fence!
 
if you are talking about only 2 bulls and niether one can be moved further away, is running them together an option? you feed his bull and send him a bill or vise versa. that maybe easier than fixing fence all the time.
 
Around here both would be at fault and if the fence was on the line it would be both parties fence. Of course the people that have lived in an area longer think they are the rule makers. If I buy a piece of fenced land tomorrow I have as much right to it as the adjoining landowner even if he was here since conception.I'd say put up a couple hot wire's one on the fence and the other 10 ft. inside your own this works for us on a couple parcels.
 
At least it's new twine lol. A powerline outfit was going through fences here and splicing them together with strips of inner tube it worked real great on electric fencers. I got a whiz bang neighbor wants to tie onto one of my fences-it ain't happening!!!!
 
Sometimes there's not another pasture to move them to, alot of places just aren't that big. We have basically the same situation, with an uncle. Tho I've never seen our bulls at his fence pushin and fightin with his......the fence is tore up none the less and his bull is usually over in our pasture, when it happens. We repair that fence on average, once a week when bulls are with the cows. (friend of mine told us to buy ugly cows hehe)
Now don't get me wrong and think that I'm sayin our bulls aren't involved....haha because they probably are, I just haven't caught them at it. But it's weird that our bulls are never over on his place after all the barbwire manglin takes place. It would be nice if some of the fence fixin was done by him. He sees it...just don't do nothin about it. Then most times expects us to pen his bull and bring him home. And we did that a time or two. But we don't anymore. We call him and tell him where his bulls at....and eventually he comes and gets him cuz he knows....if his bull is in our pasture breedin our cows...then his breedin schedule will be all messed up.
 
Electric fence down here is almost as bad as havin to go repair fence daily. With all the trees droppin limbs and such.....unless it's in open big pasture and attached to a permanant fence, it's almost pointless.

Nearly every fence on our place crosses some sort of creek. And where there's creeks there's trees. I have wondered how affective it would be just to string hot wire up along the section they tear up the most.
 
I don't have any good advice. The old adage that good fences make good neighbor is true. So the opposite is also true. Poor fences make poor neighbors. IMO, the best thing to do would be to be the bigger person and just go ahead and fix the fence and go on with life.

Bless his soul, there used to be a neighbor here that liked to stir up fencing issues with some of the neighbors. Between us there was a section line gate that he used to take and twist the top gate hoop tight so it couldn't be opened. I didn't need to use the gate unless cattle got through one way or the other. That wasn't often because the fence between us was good and of recent construction (during my lifetime) But at the time both the REA and telephone guys needed to get through this gate to get to their stuff.

Sometimes I could unwrap the gate hoop enough to work again. Most of the time I just cut it off and put on a new wire. That went on for a long time and suddenly quit. He got more involved with even sillier things with other neighbors.

I still miss the ornery old coot, he did keep things interesting! :wink: :lol: :twisted:
 
Just move their bulls off your place. You must have a road near by that will serve to help them waunder 5 to 10 miles away. Then fix your fence and add a hot wire on their side about waist high. A good fencer is worth there weight in gold. I would suggest a 200 miler with plenty of ground rods. Creeks are damp areas are an excellent place for ground rods. The more ground rods the better most fencers work. If their bulls are any good just fix the fence and let them service your cows. The neighbors will not have much of a calf crop with no bulls.
 
I've got one neighbor who will fix MY fences when his animals cause damage.....and some of them are indeed my fences in that the land on the other side is government, not his. His animals like to hike quite a bit.

Then there's the other neighbor who expects me to fix my fence when his animals damage it. That's not ever going to change. He won't fix his own fences elsewhere on his place, why fix mine?
 
I think you should educate the neighbor on how and where to buy really really good bulls. Get him to buy bulls that you don't want to try to afford. That way, when his bulls come into your pasture you will be benefitting from even better genetics than you have on your place!! Then you can encourage them to fight through the fence. :wink:
 
The orange platic twine fence tops my story. Neigbhor drove accross the pasture to watch me fix fence. I handed over to him a new roll of wire and asked him to roll it out only about 100 yards. He put the roll of wire in the back of his pickup and took off for town. Never rolled it out that was five years ago. Last month his bull got in and he actually returned to tell me he was giving back my roll of wire as he had not used it and guess what he convently forgot it...
However he did take a stick to prop up the bottom wire and said that was good enough.
Other than him the neigbors have been generally good.Just use hot wire when bulls each side.
 
I heard a story about a neighbor like that once............so every time one of his bulls wandered it got loaded,hauled 2 counties over and turned loose on a creek bottom,where I hear there was lotsa grass.
good luck
 
I was always told that if you stand in the middle of a fence that the fence to your right is yours and the fence to your neighbor right is his fence. A electric fence is always good but you need power to make them work and sometimes thats not a option.

I heard this story one time about a guy that was having the same problem you have and he got so made that he went out with his tractor and somehow speared this bull with his loader and picked it up and placed it ontop of a steel T post spearing it again. I
 
A rancher I knew who farmed some corn had an adjacent land-owner whose bull liked corn. Apparently. About tasseling time the corn's owner caught the intruder coming through his cows headed for the corn field. He quickly escorted Mr. Intruder back through the pasture, and on his way across a poorly maintained fence belonging to the bull's owner, gave him a hot lead injection in the business end of a bull going home.
When the dust sort'a settled the bull's owner drove down beside the suspect stretch of fence and commented about his bleeding bull, "Well, I guess I was done using him, and I should find him home when it's time to sell 'im."
 
I shouldnt tell this but after I got away with it was funny. I had a neighbor who never fed and his cows were continually in my small trap. I finally got two of them loaded with rope burns into the trailer and took them 40 miles west to town and turned them loose behind the wal mart where the USDA office is, I dont know if the cows filed a complaint or not.
 
nmhighdesert said:
I shouldnt tell this but after I got away with it was funny. I had a neighbor who never fed and his cows were continually in my small trap. I finally got two of them loaded with rope burns into the trailer and took them 40 miles west to town and turned them loose behind the wal mart where the USDA office is, I dont know if the cows filed a complaint or not.
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And you seemed to be such a nice young fellow. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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