Laying up in thicket under bunch of pines. Looked like prob bout 5 strikes in the pines all around em killed all but 3.
I've heard of people losing several from being under a tree and lightning but that is some bad luck there. If they were insured I'd say you shot them suckas. If they weren't, that was a huge write-off,
Insurance on them was only liability for if they got out. Far as a write off not really as the one that could show any significant value on was the young angus bull we had just gotten. There was some "future value" figured in somehow I'm not up on all that exactly but it def wasn't near the value of the cattle. Why we haven't got back in it just can't afford to buy enough to get started so now it's just an occasional one to feed up and butcher.
Don't know exactly I wasn't the one with the policy but it's not much for general liability on a farm though. Whole lot cheaper than what it would cost you in a lawsuit the way things are today.
When we had registered cattle I'd tell people that a good bull is the best investment to improve herd. 1/2 the genetics of every calf. It's not where you want to skimp.
