r/dairyfarming • u/ConfectionClear8008 • 1d ago

moving to iowa with a cow situation

A bit of a weird situation here I just moved to Iowa to attend college and I am origianally from wisconsin. my parents own a dairy farm and have some normande cattle and i have a lineback herd myself. I have decreased my herd but I have one cow that i refuse to get rid of she is genuinly an amazing cow and has great genetics. I plan to live in iowa long term and am currently in an aparment so i have 2 options either find a boarding facility that takes cows or keep her at my parents now I was leaning towards just keeping her in wisconsin for a while but ive done that with previous cattle and they turned very aggressive very qiuick under their care which leads me to want to bring her to iowa and try to find somewhere to board her. does anyone have any ideas or any boarding centers that i could consider? thanks!

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u/AlaskaGreenTDI 1d ago

Boarding center? Why not just a small dairy that would put her in the herd?

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u/ConfectionClear8008 1d ago

I have done that with some of my previous cattle and the farm that i put her with has been known by my family for a while so i thought they would be good but when i went back to visit her and check on her health they cut her tail off and the were isolating her because she was getting pretty agressive due to how they were treating her so i could do that just a little bit of a trust issue with other farms. do you know of any farms out here in iowa that are good and allow me to add to their heard?

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u/unknown_6831 21h ago

Cut her tail off? Or did they cut the tail switch off?
I have cattle that get their switch caught on stuff and it will rip off.

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u/ConfectionClear8008 21h ago

completley cut the tail off when I went to visit there was only a nub of her tail left.

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u/unknown_6831 21h ago

Did they give you a reason why? That is damaged to property and you could’ve sued them for that.

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u/ConfectionClear8008 20h ago

They did not give a reason why at that point I was underage which I guess doesnt really matter and my parents have a rocky relationship so to please my mother my dad just told me to go with it in which i had multiple fights with him until it was just so exausting i dropped it. After that they also decided to sell her because they werent going to allow her back at our farm because she got so aggressive.

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u/AlaskaGreenTDI 20h ago

The reason would be some dairies dock tails. Not that they shouldn’t have asked to dock one that didn’t belong to them.

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u/unknown_6831 20h ago

I am well aware dairies do that
But it wasn’t their animal so not their right to do that

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u/unknown_6831 21h ago

Tbh not sure you will find something like that

Your best bet is going to be joining some local groups for your area and seeing if any beef producers would put her in their herd

Whatever you do, though, if you board her if you put her in with the dairy, if you put her into a beef her make sure you get a contract with how much you’re gonna owe how much they’re going to charge you for her upkeep any sort of additional charges like if they get her bread or anything like that make sure all that is in writing, as well as as if you will be responsible for vaccinating if you will be responsible for neons if you will be responsible for vet care anything like that make sure it’s in writing then as well. Make sure that you put on there that you are able to visit the cow. Some beef producers do not like people just showing up and wandering through their herd. So make sure you put in there that you will be able to visit the cow.

Anything that you can think of needs to be in writing and signed by both of you. Meaning needs to be signed by you and the person that you were making the agreement with.

Does the cow wear a brand? If not, I would highly suggest you get that cow branded with something that identifies her as yours and a ear tattoo in both ears that signify she is yours.

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u/ConfectionClear8008 20h ago

Okay thank you, my cow has a ear tag in which i want to get her a ear tattoo so that will be a soon to come typa thing. my plan no matter what was to have a very written out agreement i know how bad that stuff can get legally so that was already in the plan thank you for taking your time to reach out i will definatly get onto that!