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My beef died this morning
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<blockquote data-quote="J Hoy" data-source="post: 1814896" data-attributes="member: 16398"><p>A quick death for an animal that appears healthy until it is suddenly dead, is usually caused by a blood vessel bursting in the thoracic cavity. I necropsied a number of animals, both wild and domestic that died like that. Basically they drown in their own blood. One was an injured elk calf with a cut on its leg that I was caring for when I rehabilitated wildlife. I checked on it to see if it needed more grass and it seemed to be fine. It had eaten the grain I had given it a half hour before. It did need more grass so I went out in our hay field and cut an arm full. When I got back to the elk calf ten minutes later, it was dead. A necropsy showed that its thoracic cavity was full of blood, which kills an animal almost instantly. That calf had a normal bite, just so no one will need to ask!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J Hoy, post: 1814896, member: 16398"] A quick death for an animal that appears healthy until it is suddenly dead, is usually caused by a blood vessel bursting in the thoracic cavity. I necropsied a number of animals, both wild and domestic that died like that. Basically they drown in their own blood. One was an injured elk calf with a cut on its leg that I was caring for when I rehabilitated wildlife. I checked on it to see if it needed more grass and it seemed to be fine. It had eaten the grain I had given it a half hour before. It did need more grass so I went out in our hay field and cut an arm full. When I got back to the elk calf ten minutes later, it was dead. A necropsy showed that its thoracic cavity was full of blood, which kills an animal almost instantly. That calf had a normal bite, just so no one will need to ask! [/QUOTE]
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