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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1810599" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Saw two particularly memorable lightning strike cases when I was in practice. </p><p>First one was a pile of 9 Brangus cows & calves on top of a hill, with a live, but recumbent calf about 30 yards away. I could smell the singed hair by the time I got within 50 yards of them. You could see the linear singe marks in the hair where the lightning had danced over them. </p><p>Second was a pile (don't recall how many) beneath a tree... big split in the bark and dirt blown up all around the roots. </p><p></p><p>One of our dairy clients kept finding dead cows out in the barnlot, with no apparent lesions or illness. Partner was there for something, and a cow came walking across the lot, past the big blue Harvestore silo, bawled loudly and fell to the ground writhing around. Wires running to the silo unloader had swayed in the wind, rubbing on a metal housing and were intermittently shorting out on the metal silo, and running down to electrify the soil in the vicinity, especially dangerous when it was wet, like after a rain. </p><p>Another client was riding cross-country on his horse, which stepped on a downed powerline he'd not seen and dropped out from under him, dead. He was wearing rubber boots and kicked out of the stirrups as the horse dropped, and escaped with no injuries. </p><p></p><p>Have seen pigs electrocuted to death, or still alive, with femoral/pelvic/spinal fractures after electrical short-circuits electrify the bars of pens on a feeding floor. Femurs look like you set off an M-80 in the marrow cavity (see photo below), spinal fractures usually at lumbosacral junction. Placed call to referring vet immediately to have the producers get an electrician out immediately, before a person got electrocuted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1810599, member: 12607"] Saw two particularly memorable lightning strike cases when I was in practice. First one was a pile of 9 Brangus cows & calves on top of a hill, with a live, but recumbent calf about 30 yards away. I could smell the singed hair by the time I got within 50 yards of them. You could see the linear singe marks in the hair where the lightning had danced over them. Second was a pile (don't recall how many) beneath a tree... big split in the bark and dirt blown up all around the roots. One of our dairy clients kept finding dead cows out in the barnlot, with no apparent lesions or illness. Partner was there for something, and a cow came walking across the lot, past the big blue Harvestore silo, bawled loudly and fell to the ground writhing around. Wires running to the silo unloader had swayed in the wind, rubbing on a metal housing and were intermittently shorting out on the metal silo, and running down to electrify the soil in the vicinity, especially dangerous when it was wet, like after a rain. Another client was riding cross-country on his horse, which stepped on a downed powerline he'd not seen and dropped out from under him, dead. He was wearing rubber boots and kicked out of the stirrups as the horse dropped, and escaped with no injuries. Have seen pigs electrocuted to death, or still alive, with femoral/pelvic/spinal fractures after electrical short-circuits electrify the bars of pens on a feeding floor. Femurs look like you set off an M-80 in the marrow cavity (see photo below), spinal fractures usually at lumbosacral junction. Placed call to referring vet immediately to have the producers get an electrician out immediately, before a person got electrocuted. [/QUOTE]
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