@justawhoaman (or anyone), can you comment on this please?
One could say that feral cattle carry parasites/diseases to which hybrid breeds carry no immunity OR someone does not want us eat bovine. Are deer next?
NM is really dark, btw
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As a cattle owner, I would join the Cattleman’s Association that requested a restraining order to find alternate methods of removal. It took us a while but we had a bull that absolutely refused to stay in a field we assigned him. If we weren’t high fenced, he would have terrorized the neighborhood (he was a stout longhorn) and he always managed to tear up the fence he “jumped”- pretty sure he used his foreword-facing weapons to move the fence out of his way. We did eventually sell him, but if I was in NM, we would be out in the forest trying to scare him back to our gate. They undoubtedly will be killing branded cattle that broke out and simply needed to be rounded up.
Remember, I am old school because I raise horses that are specifically bred to round up and move cattle. All cattle that are not fed daily will act as feral cattle in no time but they are all predictable so if you know how they react, there is always a way to round them up. Typical government response- spend the fuel on an easy shot, who cares if it is legitimate food for poverty stricken neighborhoods.
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Thank you @justawhoaman for your response. I have no knowledge on this and was curious of their (US Forest Service) activity.
The Lonesome Dove series featured such a bull in one of the series of novels McMurtry wrote
