Fortin, who co-owns Ferme ForThé in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, said he initially thought his calves and cows might have got loose, but the presence of tire tracks and a fence that appeared to have been dismantled led him to conclude that something more sinister had occurred.
Rustlers or space aliens?
ReplyDeleteAnother good reason to freeze brand rather that only rely on ear tags for ID. Hope they find his cattle (Rotten fvcking thieves)
ReplyDeleteThe advent of Allflex RFID technology, 20 years ago, ramped up for (mainly) Canada and Australia cattle rustling put a dent in the criminal element’s modus operandi. A warden or feed lot could simple wand each cow in the chute and know it was stolen and who is the true owner. Having worked on the reader wands the system is generally foolproof, but thieves will continue unless they get their “just do” once caught.
DeleteCattle and horse rustling goes on more often than people would suspect. Taking an entire herd is pretty gutsy.
ReplyDeleteProbably grazing in New Hampshire right now...
ReplyDeleteI've expected to hear about more rustling these last few years. I was thinking as I read the article, those cows had to be bellering and making all sorts of noise. I guess they did and he was at work and his neighbors ignored it thinking it was a business pick up. I dunno, sounds like it was dark. As a neighbor I would have checked it out.
ReplyDeleteThat's the difficult part to understand. Night ops are not unheard of. But to move that many cattle with that many trailers in such a short time and the neighbors don't think much of it. You know there was noise but neighbors don't even come out of the house.
DeleteIt sounds like new neighbors. The kind who are new to rural life, who don't know much of anything.
With DAY OLD dairy crosses currently at $630, up to $1,000 in the midwest, it's a big deal.
ReplyDeleteIf you have the feed. The checks from dairy cow culls & those calves are what is helping us to make payroll in Brandons great economy. Not pay the rest of the bills, mind you.
I'll admit the market prices are improving but we've got to work through more than a year of going backward AND the interest rates are not dropping. It's going to take a while to get out of this hole. Back in the 2008 depression, they said 2012 was not a great year too. We did not notice because it wasn't until 2014 we got back above $0 net income.
Jerry
Starker here,
ReplyDeleteInstead of the cattle rustling you should have caught the story of a Quebecois woman who couldn't be treated for Lyme disease but could and did get physician aided suicide.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10529000/lyme-disease-assisted-death-canada/
Current head count is said to be at 1951 level, when we had half the pop. we have now.
ReplyDeleteStarving us into eating bugs if we won't do it willingly, it seems.
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Probably Justin Idioté's doing.
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My senior year of high school, 1977-78, my football team had to switch opponents and play a team 2.5 hours north of us at the Mackinac Bridge. The team we were scheduled to play had over half of their players arrested just after the fall football season started due to rustling pigs.
ReplyDeleteThe team north of us was the only other school our size with no game scheduled that week.
Damn !!! Good thing I got nothing worth stealing up here ... I'm only a couple hours north of that ... Angus is worth bringing back the old rustling punishments , hell , any animal rustlin deserves a good old fashioned punishment ... ( doesn't have to be a hangin , but it used to be )
ReplyDeleteYes it does. Rustlers hurt and kill people when caught in the act.
DeleteEven if not caught red handed, they need hanging. In this case they stole a chunk of a man's life. Plus the cost to him of clawing back.
Quebec is becoming as lawless as Mexico in some places.
ReplyDeleteSnowmobilers venturing north to ride have been robbed at some of the hotels, waking up to find snowsleds, trailers, and in some instances the attached vehicle missing.
The local "cops" seem reluctant to do anything about it which smacks of collusion with the thieves.