Screw that! I don’t care how big the cow is, I care how much it farts! The feds are looking to tax cow farts now.
Show me a cow that doesn’t toot, then I’m interested.
The Feds won’t even know you have only one or two, especially if you raise them for your own freezer beef.
If you don’t sell them at a sale barn, they won’t know jack.
Here’s a tip from production farmers: what Uncle doesn’t know won’t hurt you.
There are dairymen in the Twin Falls, ID area who have stacked up 1-ton hay bales in such a way that you cannot see into their dairies from the road, and they’re using hoop buildings so that you can’t see their herds from the air. These guys aren’t hiding one or two cattle - they’re hiding hundreds to thousands of head of dairy cattle.
All cattle fart and burp. Don’t sweat it. If you want to get a steer or two, ain’t no one gonna know you’ve got them unless you go bragging on it. Just make sure they have enough feed and water and they’ll stay pretty quiet. Let them run out of food and/or water and they’ll bellow until you do something about it - and then neighbors for a half-mile around will know there is a pissed-off bovine somewhere in the neighborhood.