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<blockquote data-quote="ineedaremedy" data-source="post: 703729" data-attributes="member: 13379"><p>Hi, Im not a cow person and rarely eat beef, but I had to register to ask this question.....actually Ill just tell the story of what happened and if anyone would like to give their opinion feel free to do so.</p><p> I live in Missouri and love the outdoors. The other day my roommate and I were out looking for arrowheads on some land that has a bunch of cows on it. Ive noticed in the past a blind calf thats always alone wandering around bumping into things. No big deal, he's always there. This time when we went, there was a cow bellowing nonstop for her calf, so we looked around and saw the calf. At first we thought it was in a pen trying to get out. We got a little closer and realized it wasnt penned up but was foaming from the mouth and nose, tongue hanging out and in a mad frenzy. It then began to frantically run in circles, faster and faster until it was head to tail, head to tail...this lasted maybe 45 seconds and it fell down still trying to run circles on the ground, it got up, convulsed and killed over dead. This all happened in less than 5 min......Ive never witnessed anything so crazy in my life and have not a clue what caused it. As soon as it killed over, the bellowing stopped and the mama cow went back to grazing like it was nothing. Anyone ever encountered such a thing? If so, please let us know because it is driving my roommate and myself nutts not knowing why it died so fast........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ineedaremedy, post: 703729, member: 13379"] Hi, Im not a cow person and rarely eat beef, but I had to register to ask this question.....actually Ill just tell the story of what happened and if anyone would like to give their opinion feel free to do so. I live in Missouri and love the outdoors. The other day my roommate and I were out looking for arrowheads on some land that has a bunch of cows on it. Ive noticed in the past a blind calf thats always alone wandering around bumping into things. No big deal, he's always there. This time when we went, there was a cow bellowing nonstop for her calf, so we looked around and saw the calf. At first we thought it was in a pen trying to get out. We got a little closer and realized it wasnt penned up but was foaming from the mouth and nose, tongue hanging out and in a mad frenzy. It then began to frantically run in circles, faster and faster until it was head to tail, head to tail...this lasted maybe 45 seconds and it fell down still trying to run circles on the ground, it got up, convulsed and killed over dead. This all happened in less than 5 min......Ive never witnessed anything so crazy in my life and have not a clue what caused it. As soon as it killed over, the bellowing stopped and the mama cow went back to grazing like it was nothing. Anyone ever encountered such a thing? If so, please let us know because it is driving my roommate and myself nutts not knowing why it died so fast........ [/QUOTE]
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