Urgent: 2 day old calf stolen from a field in Stowmarket last night

[JP1]

2 day old solid red Galloway bull calf stolen from Stowmarket last night

Please keep an eye out for any evidence such as eartags thrown away etc UK229161 .........

I just posted this on Facebook, I'm so saddened that this is likely to have been by one of our "own"

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To the pansy who stole a 2 day old calf from my grazing field in Stowmarket, I would just point out that I do believe in karma and if we ever meet, it won't be pleasant for you. FYI two of us spent three hours combing the field this morning in the pouring rain and the Mother is clearly very distressed

The most sickening aspect of all of this is that that calf has virtually no value at such a young age except to another farmer who may have lost a calf and needs a foster replacement. If I ever discover and prove who you are, I promise through The Farming Forum and every social media, you won't be able to live in this country

Suffolk Police have been notified, predictably I had to state my DOB and how I classify my ethnicity before we got on to anything about the calf. Equally predictably it was decided no Officer attend.

 

[Forever Fendt]

i hope you find out who it is and they get named and shamed it is disgusting what people do

 

[H.M.]

That's awful! How can people stoop so low [emoji35] have you notified the local vet practices? They might be able to look out for it when they're visiting farms in the area

 

[JP1]

That's awful! How can people stoop so low [emoji35] have you notified the local vet practices? They might be able to look out for it when they're visiting farms in the area

No, good idea

I am still hoping I've got egg on my face and she's hidden him in the rushes but George is a very experienced beater and we combed that field

 

[Forever Fendt]

That's awful! How can people stoop so low [emoji35] have you notified the local vet practices? They might be able to look out for it when they're visiting farms in the area

i think barstewards like this would be below vet radar

 

[Forever Fendt]

no man holes in that field is there i know some one who lost one into a sewer from a dislodged manhole cover only a small gap you would not think it possible to get a calf into

 

[JP1]

no man holes in that field is there i know some one who lost one into a sewer from a dislodged manhole cover only a small gap you would not think it possible to get a calf into

None

 

[H.M.]

i think barstewards like this would be below vet radar

Yes that's probably true[emoji17] but they'll have to have the vet at some point for tb testing

 

[H.M.]

No, good idea

I am still hoping I've got egg on my face and she's hidden him in the rushes but George is a very experienced beater and we combed that field

Hope that's the case, we lost one last year, searched everywhere then finally gave up on it, it emerged out of a neighbour's wheat field a few weeks later! It was a couple of weeks older than your calf though

 

[C.J]

No, good idea

I am still hoping I've got egg on my face and she's hidden him in the rushes but George is a very experienced beater and we combed that field

The hours I've lost looking for 2 day old calves. Hope you get it back soon.

 

[choochter]

Oh dear, jp, I hope you are mistaken and that you find it. Not the first time I've gone looking for a calf, found it and called to the mum to come and get it. Sometimes they can be quite thickos and thet really cant remember where they saw their calf last.

 

[JP1]

Oh dear, jp, I hope you are mistaken and that you find it. Not the first time I've gone looking for a calf, found it and called to the mum to come and get it. Sometimes they can be quite thickos and thet really cant remember where they saw their calf last.

I hope so.........

 

[choochter]

Have you tried the fields next adjacent, it might have crawled away somewhere stupid

 

[Lincs Lass]

Iff someone has taken it they must know its going to need bottle rearing or a foster mother ,,could another breeder or cattle owner put another tag in and register it as one their own

 

[JP1]

Have you tried the fields next adjacent, it might have crawled away somewhere stupid

Yes all surrounding fields checked and a local farmer was going to check later as was the Museum Estate Manager

The house next door heard a vehicle pull in to the gateway and a door slam at about 4am, who knows.

 

[Cowcalf]

thats where the mother that wants to kill any body that gets too close to her calf comes in

 

[Forever Fendt]

thats where the mother that wants to kill any body that gets too close to her calf comes in

and then see how interested the police will be, a sight more than when some one robs you

 

[simon-0116]

Someone Christmas present. hope you find it and them

 

[tanker]

I've spent long enough looking for young calves to know that finding them is pot luck.Usually reappear at some stage,found one that had slipped down a badger sett,a very faint bawling noise and a lot of digging and it ended well.I hope this one emerges from somewhere,pretty disquieting to think that people could do such a thing..

 

[gone up the hill]

I've spent long enough looking for young calves to know that finding them is pot luck.Usually reappear at some stage,found one that had slipped down a badger sett,a very faint bawling noise and a lot of digging and it ended well.I hope this one emerges from somewhere,pretty disquieting to think that people could do such a thing..

A couple of years ago in a heatwave I spent about 5 hours looking for a calve in a 4 acre field with a ditch with brambles running thru it, I looked up and down the ditch around every square inch of the hedgerow etc, had given up, stood in the gateway on the phone to a baling customer, looked up the field and what came out the hedge with not a care in the world, the calf..

Sometimes they will hid away in rushes/ gorse etc and you wont see them for two/ three days, someone might have nicked this calve but it would be very unlikely to do it in the middle of the night and if they did this it must be someone local that knew the calve was there!