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Cows on my lease

Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:05 pm
Posted by JOJO Hammer
Member since Nov 2010
11907 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:05 pm
This week I’ve had 3 cows on my lease. Is it legal to take one out?

I don’t think I would kill one because I don’t want to piss off the owner but just wondering if it was legal.
Posted by Catahoula20LSU
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2011
2102 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:10 pm to
No it’s not legal. Call the owner and tell him to come get his cattle
Posted by MoarKilometers
Member since Apr 2015
17884 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:10 pm to
What legal right do you think you have to kill someone else's livestock?
Posted by Semper Gumby
Member since Dec 2021
273 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:20 pm to
quote:

What legal right do you think you have to kill someone else's livestock?


What legal right does the livestock owner have to someone else’s property?
Posted by JOJO Hammer
Member since Nov 2010
11907 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:23 pm to
quote:

Call the owner and tell him to come get his cattle


That’s what I did. He’s coming get it tomorrow.
Posted by MoarKilometers
Member since Apr 2015
17884 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:24 pm to
quote:

What legal right does the livestock owner have to someone else’s property?

There are plenty of states the onus is on you to adequately fence them out thanks for asking.
Posted by JOJO Hammer
Member since Nov 2010
11907 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:25 pm to
quote:

What legal right do you think you have to kill someone else's livestock?


I did not say I would kill it.

I know exotics are fair game if they get out.
Posted by rsbd
banks of the Mississippi
Member since Jan 2007
22163 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 6:53 pm to
Do they have collars on
Posted by Junky
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2005
8362 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 7:06 pm to
If you shot one of our cows.....You're talking thousands of dollars in lost revenue depending on her age.

Now, it sucks they get out, but really, you're going to kill a beautiful animal? If it is a one-off that shouldn't bother you. When it is constant problem then I'd involve the local police. Farmers are responsible for their livestock.

Either way - it is probably the landowner's issue depending on how your lease is set up.
This post was edited on 12/10/23 at 7:08 pm
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
12423 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 7:10 pm to
Shooting it would cause a huge shite storm for the landowner that will almost certainly end in you losing your lease.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
57160 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:09 pm to
I miss the "woods cows" on our property. They kept the brush in check and made nice paths along the river which made it easy to access my favorite hunting sites.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30369 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:10 pm to
quote:

This week I’ve had 3 cows on my lease. Is it legal to take one out?
Wouldn't be a very sporting thing to do. Finding a bull and then climbing a fence to shoot him in the nuts with a BB gun might be a more sporting pursuit, especially if it's a small pasture.
Posted by Jack Daniel
In the bottle
Member since Feb 2013
25418 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:20 pm to
Fenced exotics are fair game
Posted by WarMonkey
Constantinople
Member since Dec 2023
23 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 9:25 pm to
quote:

I don’t think I would kill one because I don’t want to piss off the owner but just wondering if it was legal.


But then, you say this...

quote:

I did not say I would kill it.


My friend, who asks such a question about killing an animal yet then says they wouldn't actually do so? A strange bird you are.
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired
Member since Feb 2019
4553 posts
Posted on 12/10/23 at 10:10 pm to
Each state may have different laws on this. In MS, I think you can charge the cow's owner x amount of money per cow.

Usually if cows are kept feed they don't roam much. I had a neighbor who wouldn't keep his cows feed during the winter. They kept getting out and on to my property so I got the sheriff involved and the cows were soon sold.
This post was edited on 12/10/23 at 10:15 pm
Posted by Bama Shadow
Member since Jan 2009
575 posts
Posted on 12/11/23 at 4:27 am to
Good friend of mine had a lease where the adjoining landowner would purposely let his horses "escape" and feed on their green fields. Local cops weren't any help and he finally just gave up and let the lease go.
Posted by latech15
Member since Aug 2015
1169 posts
Posted on 12/11/23 at 5:20 am to
Don’t shoot the cow. But if you did, you would get much more, and better, meat than you would if you shot a deer.
Posted by boudinman
Member since Nov 2019
5023 posts
Posted on 12/11/23 at 5:35 am to
It's only legal if it's truly an accident. Around dusk dark a cow/horse could be mistaken for a deer. I told that to a guy that put horses on my hunting lease during deer season. He had grazing rights lease. Needless to say he moved them off the hunting lease, when I told him that.

He had given me some trouble and he saw i was serious about a possible mistaken for game accident.
This post was edited on 12/11/23 at 5:36 am
Posted by Quatre Pot
Member since Jan 2015
1543 posts
Posted on 12/11/23 at 7:10 am to
It is legal but I would say unethical without exhausting all means of notifying the owner of the cows.
In other words killing another man’s cows is a serious dick move
This post was edited on 12/11/23 at 7:11 am
Posted by Turner River Terror
Member since Apr 2022
257 posts
Posted on 12/11/23 at 7:27 am to
I have about 100 cows on my Lease.
I love having them there. the Game trails look like highways , the underbrush is cleared out regularly and the deer don't seem to be bothered a bit.
Now if I had food plots and feeders it might be a different story but I don't have any of that.
I hunt Natural Deer living naturally
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