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bison

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I sold and loaded out 31 bison calves and yearlings in four diff groups yesterday morning, positive count independently both by me and the trucker, me when assembling the groups..him as they were going into the liner
After arriving at the destination in late afternoon(5-600 ml trip) both buyer and truck driver counted only 30 bison getting of the truck.(none dead or stayed behind in the liner) (none left in my corrals either and no chance of one having escaped)
My records show 31 head individually weighed and tagged 3 days before loading out.
I trust the buyer for 100%. The trucker has no stake in the game.
1 calf is missing, we just split the difference 50/50.

You go figure
 
Alien abduction. Common thing. Somebody will find it with parts removed with surgical precision.
 
(quoted from post at 08:38:34 05/29/15) My records show 31 head individually weighed and tagged 3 days before loading out.
You go figure
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Missing in action before they were loaded. You owe the buyer half a calf.
 
I'd be wondering if the trucker made a detour.You need to come up with a seal to put on the trailer door(s) after its loaded to be taken off by the buyer only.If the truck arrives without the seal intact then the driver has problems.
 
Back in the late 20's-early 30's, Dad's only way to get pigs to market was to pull a 4-wheel trailer behind the Model T Ford. He departed with a load of hogs to the stockyards and discovered when he unloaded that he was one pig short of what he loaded originally. Dad figured that the pig had climbed on top of the other pigs and managed to jump out.

On the way back, he stopped at a farm that had the same breed of pigs that he raised. Farmer denied having an extra pig, even though there was one pig larger than the rest in the pen.

Dad wanted to sell more pigs a week later and the 2 hired men insisted that they take the load this time. When he got the check for that load, there was one more pig than he had loaded. Hired men wouldn't admit that they went to that farm and took a pig they were sure was Dad's. All's well that ends well.
 
Or the Conservatives' new "farm tax" and a rather unorthadox (but positive) method of collection....

Ben
 
(quoted from post at 09:27:04 05/29/15)
(quoted from post at 08:38:34 05/29/15) My records show 31 head individually weighed and tagged 3 days before loading out.
You go figure
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Missing in action before they were loaded. You owe the buyer half a calf.
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Or if he had a dead one on the truck and did not admit it then owes me half a calf.

not worth fighting about it.
 
(quoted from post at 10:41:49 05/29/15) [b:1c7eb465ab]I'd be wondering if the trucker made a detour[/b:1c7eb465ab].You need to come up with a seal to put on the trailer door(s) after its loaded to be taken off by the buyer only.If the truck arrives without the seal intact then the driver has problems.
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doubt it, the calves were on the top floor and the yearling in the back, the yearlings would have to come out first.
We had trouble loading a couple yearlings,..took 3/4 of an hr to get them finally on.I don't think he would risk it not getting these back on the truck again
 
Will a 4 strand electric fence keep bison in? Planning on pasturing about 2 acres for a couple beef but would really prefer Bison if it was feasible.
 
I think you did right by the split. I have hauled a lot of critters in my life time. Had a yearling crawl into the "jail"or "doghouse"one time. Got a few
miles down the road before I figured it out. Had to turn around and unload again. Only time its ever happened to me.
 
(quoted from post at 13:50:18 05/29/15) [b:a8a145e73e]Will a 4 strand electric fence keep bison in?[/b:a8a145e73e] Planning on pasturing about 2 acres for a couple beef but would really prefer Bison if it was feasible.
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They might if you train them in a corral first.
I would not attempt it without training, first thing a bison does when released in a unfamiliar pasture is to check the fence.
 
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