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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 418462" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>Yep, came back home, went out to check the cattle, and found a two-week old carcass lying in the middle of the pasture. Third loss this year.</p><p></p><p>Aparently the animal of that carcass dropped dead to too much heat stress, or some other condition due to being exposed to too much heat, and with the heat and being baked in the sun, the meat and insides in the animal started some sort of decomposition-fermentation process, the corpse started to bloat (no, not from just the stomach, but from the butt to the head) due to build up of gases, and when something punctured the hide, be it a bird or coyote, the dead animal would've deflated like a balloon, or exploded, like an un-stabbed potato in the microwave.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, that's my theory when I seen the suddenly-suspiciously-thin corpse with dried, wrinkled hide.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the gory details, but things like that happen. At least we didn't have to spend $500 of medicine on him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 418462, member: 3739"] Yep, came back home, went out to check the cattle, and found a two-week old carcass lying in the middle of the pasture. Third loss this year. Aparently the animal of that carcass dropped dead to too much heat stress, or some other condition due to being exposed to too much heat, and with the heat and being baked in the sun, the meat and insides in the animal started some sort of decomposition-fermentation process, the corpse started to bloat (no, not from just the stomach, but from the butt to the head) due to build up of gases, and when something punctured the hide, be it a bird or coyote, the dead animal would've deflated like a balloon, or exploded, like an un-stabbed potato in the microwave. Anyway, that's my theory when I seen the suddenly-suspiciously-thin corpse with dried, wrinkled hide. Sorry for the gory details, but things like that happen. At least we didn't have to spend $500 of medicine on him. [/QUOTE]
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