OT--checking for stolen cows at stockyards.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 23, 2010

A group of my cows disappeared. Has anyone had luck getting the stockyards to check for a certain person selling cows? How would a person go about this? I am thinking only the law could do this, especially across state borders.

jimva · Oct 23, 2010

If you know the stockyard owner, he should be more then willing to help. Talk to him the day of the sale, hang around there from the time it opens, and see if any of your cows happen to show up and who brought them there.

Also you may have to try and come up with someway of proving those cattle are yours, tag numbers, brand, description etc.

How it has worked here, is that the yard owner/ and actual cattle owner, will go ahead and let the cattle be weighed and then put them in a seperate pen. While getting the name etc of who brought them in, then sheriffs office is called and it goes from there. Not sure about your area and respective laws, but what I described is how several cattle theives have been caught.

As for out of state markets, i have no idea.

On a side note, Dont rustle cattle that belongs to the owner of the stockyard and then try to sell them at that stockyard. That made one interesting sale day that day.

Nebraska Cowman · Oct 23, 2010

A "certain" person? I suspect your local law enforcement have run into him before. They should be more than glad to help.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Oct 23, 2010

Probably aliens beamed them aboard, but in the event that they didn't, were the cattle branded?

Kansas has brand inspectors that will gladly work with law enforcement for such issues as stolen cattle. Only two for the entire state so they can't go to every sale barn on sale day.

I sure hope that you can recover the missing ones.

railhead · Oct 23, 2010

I would check with the IA Cattlemen's Association. They may have better resources to investigate and help with reward offers etc.

Jerry/MT · Oct 23, 2010

I"m sure Iowa has brand laws and brand inspectors to enforce them. You need to contact them. Heck when I send cows to auction and I mis identify a brand on the forms, I get a call from the brand inspector and they"ll hold up my check til I provide the correct bill of sale.

MN Scott · Oct 23, 2010

No brand laws in Iowa or MN for that matter. Branding is a western thing not done here.

WCS · Oct 23, 2010

Not many cows in Iowa are branded.

Bill in Colo · Oct 23, 2010

My suggestion is to contact your local sale barn that is a member of the Livestock Marketing Association and have them put out to their members a description of the stolen cattle, or get in contact with LMA directly.
This might be a good reason for national animal Id, which we in the west have with our tough brand laws most of which are tied to premise id.

Lou from Wi. · Oct 23, 2010

Jeff, Darn Shame that happened. Brought to mind the movie TOM HORN with Steve Mcqueen. Need some one like that to protect cattlemems property. Hope you can get em back ar at least find out who is the thief. Reguards LOU.

Tx Jim · Oct 23, 2010

The movie Tom Horn was good but I didn't like the way he got HUNG for doing what he was hired to do.

LAA · Oct 23, 2010

You state a ""certain person"" if you think you know who stole them and he is a local no goodnik then most business people probably know to steer clear of him. No sale barn wants to fence stolen cows, if you tell them there is a good chance that so and so stole your cows and is going to try and sell them then I bet they will make him show some kind of proof of ownership before letting him sell. Just speaking for myself, if I knew who did it I would go find them and stick a pistol barrel in their mouth and keep it their until my cattle were back home.

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