cows on the road!

[cowman]

My local county now allows you to throw your cows out in the ditches! I suspect there are going to be all kinds of problems with this one if it becomes widespread! You have to either tether them out or have electric fences or flagmen! Now I'm not a great fan of electric fences but maybe they would work. What happens when someone hits one of these cows? Who gets sued? The farmer, the driver or the county? What happens when these cows get into someones crops or yard? What happens if somebodys dog puts them through the fence?
I think the county may have opened up a can of worms they might not enjoy in the end. When it gets to the point where you have to feed them in the ditches maybe its time to consider selling them?

[wilagro]

I don't know if our county allows electric fences on the shoulders of the roads or not BUT everyone is doing it. Sometimes they go for miles. Most are flagged with seismic tape. So far not too many problems except from moose and deer damage. The moose are the worst as they even take out barbed wire fences as well. I turned my cattle onto a unused road allowance which should keep them for a month or so. Desperate times and desperate people will try all kinds of solutions to keep the cows fed.

[cowman]

I drove by a bunch of cows and calves that were turned out in a wide ditch about a mile long. The farmer had strung up seismic tape! Right across part of the mile was a pretty decent wheat crop with no fence! They must have just been turned out because none were through the tape yet, but it won't be long before they are out and in that crop! I suspect the owner of the wheat will not be impressed!

[dfarms11]

you know what, in all the crops that cattle have been turned into that I have seen, its not the crops they munch on, they go straight for the sloughs. I dont' know why, you would think they would prefer the grain.

[pandiana]

I live on a dead end road shared with 3 others with cattle. I told one of my neighbors that I wanted to pasture the 1/2 mile along my frontage (I rented pasture on the other side of the road as well). He must have told another neighbor who just has a cottage which he occupies on the occassion weekend. Three days later we came home to find that the ditches had all been hayed and was informed that if I tried to pasture the ditch my occassional neighbor would report me to the county. Desparate times you say..!

[dalek]

Sounds like you need to put up a hog finishing barn.

[15444]

Now there's a idea!