The unmitigated gall of some people is a real head shaker.
My neighbor has sheep, he is a retired school teacher. This spring we were having issues with his sheep getting out and decimating the deer corn piles, mineral blocks and trampling the food plots. Two week ago they went through 800 pounds of corn in about 12 days. trampled the food plots all to hell and made a mess. I called Dave and offered to help find the hole in the fence. He said "we have looked for the hole and can't find it". I took the Honda 500 out and found the hole in 15 seconds. Dave had "fixed" it with a length of 14/2 Romex. the sheep pushed right through it, like a gate. So I got fence wire, some posts had a couple of friends help patch this fence. Dave and his wife live like slobs and of course being retired they have no time to do ANYTHING right but expect me to figure out their fence problems for them and then fix it.
Today, I was out mowing around the food plots. I can't mow because the damm sheep are eating all the corn. The guys dumped a 4X8 trailer load of corn there last Sunday, it is GONE. I went back got the Honda and chased the sheep out with it. They went to the hole we fixed and seemed flustered but headed down the hill where I could not go with the Honda.
I called Dave, I said "I think they are getting out down by Kathy's pond. He said "Oh, we are letting them out and thought they were behaving". I was incredulous. "Dave, they ate an entire trailer load of corn, you have to keep your sheep on your land and out of our food plots." He seemed surprised saying "we thought they were behaving". Well, they are they are "behaving" they are acting like sheep and going beeline to my food plots eating my plots, corn and mineral licks.
This idiot is letting his sheep out of his pasture ON PURPOSE, ignoring them and expecting them to not act like sheep. He thinks they will be staying on their property when the sheep know corn is piled high only 500 yards away.
Grrrrrrr, this is really bad. The corn is expensive, the sheep are not mine and he is LETTING them out of his pasture to free graze on my land. The messed up thought processes of some people amaze me. Oh, imagine this they are Obama, Biden lovers......
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if they do happen to disapear in the near future, you may not want to post it in this thread..... 0 -
Good fences are one thing, purposely opening gates is hard to wrap my head around.
That is wild.
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Lazy and letting you repair the fence, scratch your head and mumble. Purposely letting them out to obtain your corn and plots, no Bueno. Time to send him a bill for the feed.
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I think it is past time to turn into a major league pain in the butt. Call the cops every time his sheep are out. Call animal control every time his sheep are out. Send a bill registered mail, return receipt requested on all damage to date. Send a new bill every time they are out again and eat anything at all. Go to small claims court. Ask the township trustees (you are in Ohio right) have them decide which half of the line fence between you is yours. Build a new fence on your half. Call the township trustees again to put up his half of the fence and it goes on his tax bill. I'm guessing 6 weeks of doing all these things and he will either get his fence fixed or sell his sheep.
Also, I can't remember what the law says in Ohio, but in some States you can load them up and take them to a livestock auction. Have fun!!!!!0 -
Does sheep taste like lamb?
No, Tastes like a sweater.6 -
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Does sheep taste like lamb?
No, Tastes like a sweater.Too funny.
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With credit to Johnny Cash....
A sheepherder came,
And put up a fence.
I saw him once,
But I ain't seen him since.
But if it's mutton you're wantin'
We got mutton to sell,
Cause we're cowpunchers
And mean as hell.3 -
I truly hate to dispose of a animal just doing there thing at the owners carelessness
just video and report it and have the local lawyer sue for damages and hardships loss of property and food sources have the lawyer tack on his 90% fee ( LOL )
but then again ( green font and in fun no way suggestion ) a fence of dead sheep bodies on the property line would have a visual impact6 -
Just some thoughts for the day.
You say:
A retired school teacherOh, imagine this they are Obama, Biden lovers......
Already past time for YOU to get the: You know nothing attitude and be a quiet type of a neighbor. ( For example: I do not know anything about any of your missing sheep)
How do I know this sort of stuff? I did not read it (taking care of business and staying quiet) from a book and I was not taught such in a school room. I'm just a good ole country boy and a good neighbor.
That retired teacher is a slow learner and he has tried to teach brainwashed and taught some of our future generations.
We all have seen highly educated people that do not have any common sense.
I'm going to have to stop saying, How dumb can you be, People take it as a challenge.
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I pulled the game camera SD cards this morning and sure enough they devoured the corn over 4 days. I am going to point out to Dave that Ohio law prevents them from free roaming their flock on other peoples land, they must be kept fenced on HIS property. I sure can't blame the sheep, they are just doing what comes natural, they are gentle domesticated creatures. The owner is 100% at fault for letting them out on purpose, untended to roam properties of several people eating lawn grass and being a nuisance flock blocking the roads. 0 -
I'd be tempted to trap them when they get on my property and start keeping them. Make him come ask for them and tell him the ones you have are wild ones that you captured on your own land and you don't know where "his" sheep are because he obviously has a fence and they couldn't possibly be the same sheep. 9 -
Reminds me of when I 1st moved on to my property. I had been here a couple weeks and had left to go buy a used riding mower. When I came back, someone had pulled a huge Horse Trailer with a Dually 4X4 onto my front yard and parked it. (We are a trailhead to 8000 acres of Wilderness trail access.)
I put a padlock on it, with a note to come see me/knock on the door when they came back.
Got my point across.
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Back in the '60's in the Texas Panhandle some feral dogs got into a pen of calves dad had just received attacked several. As a result the calves broke through a 5-wire fence and scattered several miles across the county. Some got hit on a divided highway and some got killed on the Santa Fe right of way.
Santa Fe had agreed to pay for any livestock it hit that was contained in a "quality fence" and there was no question of that, but the lawyers had to bill some hours and found ways to make dad jump through hoops, etc before judge ordered them to pay.
That was mid July and calves had gotten hit in February. Lawyers wanted them dug up and counted. Judge said they'd been counted and for them to pay the claim immediately.
What the city lawyers didn't notice is that the dead calves weighed the same as their brothers -- they'd gained weight every time the lawyers pulled some nonsense on dad!
The sheriff knew it was feral dogs since the nose membrane on several was torn. Wild canines go for the legs.
Time for a sheriff or lawyer to visit them and explain their responsibilities. Maybe their insurance agent?
Paintball guns, different color each time you find them on your property. Mark the "habitual" fence crossers.0 -
Just out of curiosity, do you know anyone that shears sheep? If you do tell them you will give them the wool and afterwards see if your neighbor notices his bald sheep. If he does tell him it sounds like to much corn in their diet is causing their hair to fall out. Bob 3 -
Go buy a bucket of red ink.
Hang several ropes around with inked ropes.
When the red sheep show up he will start being more careful.0 -
To drill down to the real issue is pretty straightforward.
The hole in the fence, the one he said he could not find was EASY to find and fix. His "repair" of this hole with a length of house wire was a joke, the sheep had been getting out for weeks. My repair is still there and holding the sheep in, most of his fencing along the Township road and another landowner is a mess but seems to keep his sheep in his pasture. The issue is the owner of the sheep has a pasture too small for the number of sheep he has. It is over grazed.
He owns PLENTY of land (three times what I own) to make a new fall/winter pasture for his sheep. He has that land planted with deer plots and of course does not want his sheep tearing up his deer plots so he was opening the gate letting them roam the area untended eating the neighbors lawns, my pastures and of course my corn piles.If it happens again I will not be so neighborly and my "conversation" with him will be more of a stern lecture and a final warning before I call the sheriff and file a complaint. I want to help, I will help fix any fence issues he has even if they are not on my property line. But, his letting his sheep roam over hill and dale is going to end!
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"It was coming right at me" An episode of South Park and the justification for shooting almost anything LOL
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Time to invite the local kids over for some mutton bustin'! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-NkfdqM44
Can you put a padlock on the gates into your fields. Bpost?3 -
Well that explains it all, they're fattening up their sheep on your dime and hoping they'll "behave" while out carousing around the area,bpost said:The messed up thought processes of some people amaze me. Oh, imagine this they are Obama, Biden lovers......
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I am waiting on Don to come along and offer a Dances With Sheep joke.
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Sounds like the fence around his deer plots should start falling down. 0 -
Nope, there are no gates to my land, he lets them out about 3/8ths mile down the road across from his driveway near the sheep barn. Of course the sheep know where the corn is so they beeline it to my land for a nice treat; my "pastures" are mowed and kept free of invasive weeds. It is perfect fodder for sheep. His land straddles the road, the bulk of his land is on his house side. He is too lazy to put up more fence for pasture and mess up his deer plots. Why fence in his sheep when he has free vittles for them on someone else's land?....NeoBlackdog said:Time to invite the local kids over for some mutton bustin'!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-NkfdqM44
Can you put a padlock on the gates into your fields. Bpost?0 -
Maybe offer sheep counseling for misbehaving? They have animal psychiatrist. Just a thought. 3 -
I agree with your sentiment. I have had the same or similiar issues with my land. I had put up gates to keep dirt bikes out that don't have persimission to be out on my land and they completely tore down the gates. In addition they were cutting new trails in like they owned the land. I posted it to hunters who do not have permission to be on my land and they tore all those down.
Nothing suprises me any more.3 -
Ive got 4 apple trees 1/2 mile from the nearest road near my food plots, and someone picked all 4 trees completely in one nite. Needed an apple picker and had to be at least 15 gallons of apples. 0 -
It it happens again, call the Sheriff and have a Deputy speak to your neighbor. 0 -
That happened to a local orchard last year that had peach trees far away from the barn. Someone came in and cleaned off all the peach trees. It was much more than 4 trees. Cannot understand it as we are not in a really depressed area that people need the food.JimmyJack said:Ive got 4 apple trees 1/2 mile from the nearest road near my food plots, and someone picked all 4 trees completely in one nite. Needed an apple picker and had to be at least 15 gallons of apples.
We used to attend a Farmers Market, at the end each week the farmers would donate a bunch of products that would not last on their stand to the homeless shelter. Yet people still steal.0 -
Yet if you offered them $50 per hour to pick peaches, they’d turn you down. 6 -
In old England, churches would plant Japanese yew in the churchyard. Highly poisonous to livestock.. hmmm. 0 -
I currently work in a grocery store while I am waiting to resume my radiology program.......I have to say, people really suck. Retail is hard. People come through the store and just destroy all of the work that the employees put in to make it look nice and stocked and present the merchandise. Working retail has made me really not like people in general. 0
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