64 calves stolen

[Rye Miles #13621]

This is unbelievable to me!
 

Investigators in Mercer County, Ohio, are searching for suspects after 64 Holstein calves were stolen in what the sheriff describes as a highly coordinated livestock theft.

Sheriff Doug Timmerman told Farm and Dairy that the scale and speed of the theft, committed sometime the night of May 2, suggest the perpetrators were experienced in handling cattle and had a ready outlet for the animals.

“This is somebody that completely understands the industry and how it works,” the sheriff said.

[Rev Willy Dunkum, SASS # 61027]

This story has so many variable paths to go down that has me asking a lot of questions.  I hope they catch this group quickly.  I wonder if they've done this before somewhere else?  Have they expanded from another area?  Why dairy cattle?

[Texas Lizard]

7 minutes ago, Rev Willy Dunkum, SASS # 61027 said:

 Why dairy cattle?

Someone who did not difference in gender......

 

Texas Lizard

[Rev Willy Dunkum, SASS # 61027]

A standard cattle hauler would hold that many calves and may be easier to load and get out than a bunch of smaller trailers but that would have to be highly executed with a ready disappearing market.  Weird.  Do they still hang rustlers?

[Oak Ridge Regulator]

At the price of steak if your gonna steal cattle at least steal some black angus or maybe Herefords or one of the other decent beef breeds, there ain’t a lot of easy money to be made with milk cows

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

gotta wonder , IF , they are being sold as replacements to established herds 

 

 CB 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Get a rope.  Get several ropes, and find a tree, a hay  loft, or a wagon tongue.

 

Hang them, bury them, go get pancakes, and don't tell anyone. 

[Matthew Duncan]

Chickens retaliating against cows in all those Chick-fil-a commercials.

[Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L]

Is cattle rustling still a hangable offense? If not it should be.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

54 minutes ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:

Is cattle rustling still a hangable offense? If not it should be.

What I just said.  My Dad, in one  of his non-religious moments,  said "Jerk 'em to Jesus."

[Eyesa Horg]

6 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

What I just said.  My Dad, in one  of his non-religious moments,  said "Jerk 'em to Jesus."

It's effective, generally not repeat offenders.

[JP McLintock]

The boy was at the livestock sale last friday, baby calves, less than 10 days old were selling for $2500 per head .

Rustling is going to be a thing again.

[Cypress Sun]

14 hours ago, Matthew Duncan said:

Chickens retaliating against cows in all those Chick-fil-a commercials.

 

I wondered all those chickens crossed the road....now, I know.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 6 by Cypress Sun

[irish ike, SASS #43615]

depending on their age Holstein calves are raised to become "veal" cuts of meat.  My opinion but the process is horrible and abusive to the animals.

[Rye Miles #13621]

5 minutes ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said:

depending on their age Holstein calves are raised to become "veal" cuts of meat.  My opinion but the process is horrible and abusive to the animals.

I’m no vegan or animal rights activist like the PETA people but I won’t eat veal because of this^^^^^^^^^^

[Stump Water]

Last fall when we bought the new tractor (Solis) it was from a diary farm that sold farm equipment as a side gig.  Their other side gig was  processing Holstein steers into beef.  Is that horrible?

 

When we first moved to this county we rented a place.  The house next door sat empty for about two years, then it was sold.  The back yard was fenced in and a makeshift barn/shed was built, then the horses showed up.   The horses stayed until the small lot was bare dirt and they ate all the bark off the trees, then they were gone.  For the last year we were there horses would come and go  - one or two at a time.  We figured they were boarding them.  Some time after we moved on we found out they got busted for rustling.

[Eyesa Horg]

Yeh, I had to do phone work at a packing facility once decades ago. The work was in the part of the building where the beef are herded down the chute to the building.

I advise no one to ever see that. Nuf said. I refused to ever go back, but I still love a good steak!

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Apparently cattle rustling is on the rise in several states.  High prices are the primary motivation.  According to some articles thousands of cattle are stolen annually.  

[Stump Water]

16 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

I advise no one to ever see that.

 

It's not pleasant.  While I've never been to a commercial packing facility, when I was a kid grandparents/relatives on both sides of the family killed &  butchered beefs, hogs & chickens.  Been there from the gun shot (or hatchet) to the freezer.  When a community comes together it's pretty amazing how fast they can work up a beef or a hog.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

12 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

It's effective, generally not repeat offenders.

A guillotine is more certain in that respect.

 

[watab kid]

im told by LEOs i know this happens all the time and doesnt make the regular news 

[Eyesa Horg]

4 hours ago, watab kid said:

im told by LEOs i know this happens all the time and doesnt make the regular news 

What? Guillotines or jerkin em to Jesus?

[watab kid]

18 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

What? Guillotines or jerkin em to Jesus?

cattle rustling - its more common than anyone thinks and not as easy to track as it was back in the day when they moved them on the hoof ,