[casuist]

Set aside the issue of animal cruelty. What blithering idiot allows livestock to just die?--this represents a significant investment by someone, at sometime, and anyone in agriculture knows that you never neglect any of your investments, ever. Sell the animals. Sell them at a loss. Or give them away in return for transporting them off of your property. Any one of these options is cheaper than the damages and clean-up costs of turning your stockyards into a death-by-starvation killing-field. This is psychotic behavior.

[tiki]

My first speculation is that it is maybe in foreclosure and the former owner just abandoned the place and the bank wasn’t privvy to the information.

[ZULU]

Psychotic and probabloy spiteful as a result of the divorce.
The same kind of behavior that makes kids helpless pawns in an ego contest.

[MrEdd]

Set aside the issue of animal cruelty. What blithering idiot allows livestock to just die?

Judges. Judges, you see are blithering idiots.

You have been on these forums long enough you should have anticipated who the responsible screwhead would be - a lawyer of some stripe.

We have a divorce. the wife left, filed for divorce, and was awarded the property by the presiding judge. The man left in August - place was no longer his. He had no responsibility to keep up the farm now belonging to the woman.

The woman didn't get around to visiting the property until now. The presiding judge should have made the couple have some arrangement for the life stock as part of the divorce proceedings. He is the one who is supposed to be the rational party facilitating the dispersal of the formerly common property.

[dhs12345]

Not justifying... but it may be analogous to people walking away from a home and mortgage that is under water. Pretty cold hearted, though and stupid. I am betting that the "family" can be found.

[Fresh Wind]

If all else fails, send ‘em to Mecca.

[Tucker39]

I would question whether this might be one of those deals where a feed mill supplies the feeder pigs and the feed, and the farmer just keeps the animals fed and cared for until they reach market weight.

But if they have been dead since August that doesn’t seem to hold water. The feed trucks would have been in there several times since August.

In set-ups as big as this one SOUNDS to be, the hog feeding equipment is automatic. As long as the feed bins out beside the barn have something in them, the feed is supplied to the feeders on an hourly basis.

Gives me brain cramps!