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Heifer found dead on her back
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<blockquote data-quote="rainie" data-source="post: 354885" data-attributes="member: 6006"><p>To Pheah. Sorry for your loss. I rode pasture (community pasture) for twenty years. I've seen this happen far too often, and it is the absolute worst way to find an animal. You spend the summer caring for these cattle and then loose them like this.Depending on what side they lay down on they can live for acouple of days. If they lay down on the wrong side and get cast and start to bloat , they have a couple of hours.They don't have to be old cows either. They can be healthy yearling heifers.I've found them cast on perfectly flat ground, and you can see where they were scratching trying to get up. Probably it's just because they take on a big belly full of feed and water. Not much you can do.I remember selling a good young cow one time because of the amount of feed and water she would take on. She would just balloon up. I thought she was an accident waiting to happen so I sold her before I found her with four legs up in the air.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rainie, post: 354885, member: 6006"] To Pheah. Sorry for your loss. I rode pasture (community pasture) for twenty years. I've seen this happen far too often, and it is the absolute worst way to find an animal. You spend the summer caring for these cattle and then loose them like this.Depending on what side they lay down on they can live for acouple of days. If they lay down on the wrong side and get cast and start to bloat , they have a couple of hours.They don't have to be old cows either. They can be healthy yearling heifers.I've found them cast on perfectly flat ground, and you can see where they were scratching trying to get up. Probably it's just because they take on a big belly full of feed and water. Not much you can do.I remember selling a good young cow one time because of the amount of feed and water she would take on. She would just balloon up. I thought she was an accident waiting to happen so I sold her before I found her with four legs up in the air. [/QUOTE]
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