Trespassing Cattle/Bad Neighbor

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Anyone ever have an issue with trespassing cattle on your land? How did you eventually resolve the issue? Thanks.

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Can you give more info?

Is the fence down or poorly maintained? Or no fence at all?

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Anyone ever have an issue with trespassing cattle on your land? How did you eventually resolve the issue? Thanks.

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Catch them and send them to stockyard. Notify owner where they are and he can pay the transportation/dockage to the stockyard if he wants them back. Legal and he won't let it happen again as high as beef is now.

Have already done that once. Guy is a moron.

Sign of bad management- no grass in his pasture or they would stay.

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The fence between neighbors property and mine belongs to me. I paid for and built the fence. Initially my fence contained 4 strands of barb wire. But I have since added a fifth strand mid height.
The neighbor had 3 cows that would Houdini through my 4 strands and craze on the buffet of grass that was there. I would mow a 4’ wide strip along my fence to a height of 1” as a prevention. The neighbors available grass was almost to the soil. My fence would suffer broken wire, broke posts(wood) and ripped out wire staples (1.5”). I would make repairs routinely. I did talk with the neighbor about his cows and made sure he understood it’s not the cows fault it’s his as the owner. They’re animals and they are going to eat fence or no fence. Following the neighbor began to make shoddy repairs to my fence his cows would cause.
Once again I talked with the neighbor about my fence and the damage his cows was causing and his shoddy repair attempts.
This time I let him know that I did not build my fence to keep his cows in and that was his responsibility. I conveyed to him I’ve done my part as a neighbor by adding another wire, mowing grass short along my fence and even spraying weed/grass killer at times to deter his cows. I communicated it was past time for him to take steps on his side of property to deter his cows from crossing.
All this communication was done respectfully, clear and to the point. There is now a hot wire in place on my neighbors property which he installed and all is well at the farm.

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Anyone ever have an issue with trespassing cattle on your land?

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inform your neighbor in writing that any cows you find on your property will be sold for slaughter and you will be keeping the meat.

if he wants his cows he will make sure the fence stays repaired to keep his cows in.

when neighbors dont act in good faith or act responsible, its up to you to solve the issue on your end. all you can do is act accordingly when a stray animal is on your property. you have no obligation to protect someone elses property when they act irresponsibly

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Anyone ever have an issue with trespassing cattle on your land? How did you eventually resolve the issue? Thanks.

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Had it happen a few years ago. I had about 30 cows get in my food plots. I contacted my neighbor and he apologized and said part of a fence was down. He offered to pay for any damage they did. Told him not to worry about it. shite happens and I figured it was good idea not to be an a-hole about it I may need to get a deer of his place one day.

I have a friend in bum frick egypt with some land and some horses. A neighbor has cows. The cows kept getting loose. Eventually he called the cops, and the cops handled it and the guy finally got his fence fixed. In GA.

Make sure when you call him and the sheriff to tell them his cows are on your place you do it at 3am to make it more of an inconvenience on them. You aren't going to turn an a-hole neighbor into a nice guy no matter how much you try. They won't change until it becomes a pain in the arse for them to a point they feel it's easier on them to solve the problem.