Steers finally showed update on the fugitive

Had two steers delivered today took all of about 10 seconds for one to blow across the pen and through the brand new woven wire. He is now in about 1500 acres of timber..... wish me luck! I'm about to put this new horse to the test!

Good luck. I hope you get your steel back safely and quickly. If there's any other cattle in the area, it may try to get in with them, especially if it stays lost for a while.

I've gone on all the escaped cow hunts i ever want to. The worst hunt lasted 11 days and went from near Sydney, Ohio to near Covington, Ohio, a distance of a little over 28 miles, if you flew straight between the two and likely hundreds of miles as the scared, chased cow rambles. That cow was in it's new pasture about as long as your steer. That cow lost a few hundred pounds over the 11 days it was loose. My friend Dennis, who the cow belonged to and I, lost some weight too.

The best advice I can give to make it easier to retrieve a lost animal is to feed train all your livestock and domestic animals to a feed call. The call can be anything you want as long as it's consistent and you enthusiastically use it when making a production out of feeding your animals. Animals, like people, are food greedy and it makes even very dumb animals somewhat trainable with food.

For a few years, my friend James had serious problems with dead ash trees on his neighbors property falling on and smashing down his fence. His cows got out a lot. All of his cattle were trained to "Sook Cow!" and would come running if they ever heard you yell it. They would also follow if you carried a small amount of feed in a bucket, giving them the occasional mouthful. We walked them back from at least 4 miles on one occasion.

I have feed trained ducks, geese, quail, peafowl, guineas, chickens, pigeons, mice, rats, dogs, cats, goats, cattle, doves and pheasants to a feed call and it works on all them if they're loose, or if you just want to make it easier to catch them in a pen, or bring them in sight in a large pasture.

Keith

Hope you get the steers back in.

No matter how he does, the new horse will try, and at the same time getting to know you.

He deserves some good treats and TLC from the heat when you're done. He won't ever forget this.

Sounds like you need a Huey to help !

Good luck with the steer and the horse.
Hope you all come back unscathed

If the horse doesn't work out the 30/30 is about 100% reliable

Train them to a white bucket and feed is Correct

Just like KeithC said

I say Come cow loud ...they come running

Had to chase a lot of em around here. The cows here are trained to a Grey f150 they get fed on. I can go thru the field on a silver f250 and they will look but not come running lol

I never found him but it was a adventure. Hooked a rear horse shoe on an old fence luckily I was able to get off and cut it with the pliers I still had in my pocket from fixing the fence. That was a bit of a rodeo... i was kind of suprised that it didnt rip the shoe off. like Donnersurvivor it might come to the ol 30-30 but I hope it doesn't! I have a funeral in the morning then I'll be back at it. The horse worked hard and we had alot of time to get to know each other.

About 63 years ago my great uncle sold his small herd of Holsteins and started raising beef. He bought stockers fresh off the grass from SD. There was a train car load that came and dropped them off near Fairchild WI. They were loaded into trucks and hauled to his farm about 4 miles. I believe there were roughly 60 head maybe a tad more. They were let out into the barnyard lot. The first day he fed hay and some grain. The next day he turned on the silo unloader to feed some silage. The whole herd bolted, knocked down the strong barnyard fence and ran all over the place. It took 4 days to get the most of them. This was in November so they got a crew together and shot the last half dozen and they were butchered. l I got to help with that process.

Bryce

I want to see pictures.

A 12 or 20 ga pump shotgun works wonders on wayward beef or horses 7 1/2 or 8 shot will get its attention.

A good stock dog is helpful also .

Put about 5 hours in the saddle today still no luck..

I would check with the sheriffs department for sightings of your steer. We found Dennis's cow that way a few times. We just couldn't get a rope on it. It mostly stayed in thick woods and was hard to approach. People would report it when it was near roads and we would take off after it. It eventually found a herd of dairy cows and went in with them when the farmer opened the gate for it.

I hope you find your steed and can catch it.

Keith

Dad said during the Depression their bull got out. The bull visited everyone’s garden. Finally shot him. Grocer in our small town paid two cents per pound.

We had a steer get loose near here last year, a couple sightings but I don't believe it was ever recovered, at least not officially, and the area it was in was pretty suburban...

I figured some guy found it in his yard, shook a can of cheerios at it and locked it in his garage till he could process it,,,lol

If you own livestock, I mean real ones, I don’t include goats alpacas ponies. But hogs sheep cattle and horses, you will always have wonderful stories to tell! As a kid “cows er out” was great to hear. Especially at night, when we would get to be late for school. Also I’m sure you can handle this one rogue but if ya ever get in a fix, there’s an outfit called Ohio Cow Hunters, I’m sure something similar is found in other states. No idea what it costs, sure it ain’t cheap but might be better than 30/06ing a champion bull you just had shipped over from Scotland.

My brother had a young Scottish highlander calf get out on him and disappeared for three months. One day he got a call from a farmer several counties away. Seems he's the only one with scottie in the area and this farmer knew it. Said three months on the run and it looked good.

Wow

About 10 years ago I was deer hunting when late one afternoon I was sitting in my stand when a holsteen cow walked by about 40yards away surprised the heck out of me because I was several miles from any know farms deep in the northern Minnesota woods, reported it to the local sheriffs office, turned out it had been missing for over 2 years from a farm over 20 miles away, continued to see it now and then for a couple of years till some hunter shot it

That thing was spooky as can be any little noise or movement and it would hit the deep brush and vanished

My grandsons other grampa told us to shoot one a few years ago. Got loose and was wild as a deer. We saw it while deer hunting. I wanted to try and catch it but he said shoot it and we will eat it. So we did. I didnt butcher it just gutted it. Got to show my grandson how to gut a big animal without hanging it up. Other grandad was working clear up in KC. He got out a skid steer to drag it to the barn and hang it up When he got home.

Sorry to hear about your steer and dilemma. I understand he's a new purchase, but his attitude is a preview of what's to come. I had a few like him early on and they went to the sale barn as soon as I could get them loaded. I couldn't have that nonsense in my herd.

Every now and then a wayward rogue cow will step outta the Texas brush to see what I'm up to while trapping and as soon as I change body positions to look at it better.... poof, back into the cactus it steps. WILD looking hombres who've been REAL wild a long time since none of my deer ranches raise any cattle.

Always surprised how quiet they can be. And how they live around the deer hunting going on with a price on their heads.
I call 'em Comanche cattle cause they are the last hold outs.

Blessings,
Mark

I hope that charlois walks past my deer stand I won't hesitate! I beautiful fence is wrecked! Haha I got a new black one this morning he walked out of the trailer and started eating grass I like him alot better but the that got away sure was a looker.

Dang that sucks. Hope he shows back up. Here there is a guy that specializes in live stock recovery. No idea the cost but has to be better then a complete loss.

What a bummer, hopefully he shows back up for you.

Cattle are herd animals so sometimes those stages will show up runnin with the neighbors herd or better yet come home on their own.

I'm not that patient but I've seen it work out for others

Little update. I got a phone call yesterday that a guy about 3 miles away saw my steer in one of his milo fields so I grabbed a rifle and flew over there. When I get there he said it came running toward the tractor while he was mowing but fled when it saw his dogs. I made a phone call and had a friend bring his drone over. 5 minutes in we located the steer and watched it lay down so I made another phone call to a guy who cowboys he brought his wife and a couple other guys. An hour later we were pushing that milo via horse back but he must have moved. I'm hoping we didn't put to much pressure on him and he is still in the area. I took my e-caller over there this morning and played it on calf bawl in hopes to get a shot on him. He is definitely living in that field by the sign I saw. I think I will go get a bucket of molasses and some corn today and put my cell trail camera up. Not sure what else I can try. I do know that I need to get him out of there.

We had one do that once. Off the trailer, through the barn wall, through the fence, across the field, through another fence and away it went... 4 days later at about 15 yo I came across it and it got a 16ga slug between the eyes standing in a side ditch. It was a funny tasting and textured beef after three days of running around with anxiety and hormones. Turns out ours was prego and half crazy. Anyway, good luck.

Wow, still on the chase!

Hope you Get it

We had a young bull come through the plantation. Came through the horse pasture, stepping between the 3 strands on electric fence.
I rode through one day and saw a cow in the pasture and called the manager asking if we was in the cow business now. He had no clue what I was referring to. I sent him a pic and he said he had seen on FB of a young bull on the loose from a farmer about 3 miles away. As I was talking to him that joker just stepped on through the fence and continued on his way.
About 2 weeks later we got an update the bull had made it home, lol.

I wish mine would come home but that's not going to happen he is in heaven out there. One thing I can't figure out is where he is getting water.