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When you find a dead one, what happened?
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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1096930" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>It was hard being there, seeing her physical distress, although I concluded that for a large part of it, she was probably hardly conscious. I'm not really familiar with seizures, but I presume if there's that much disruption going on, there must be damage to the brain as well? The whole thing went on for such a long time and I expected at any moment she'd quieten - as she appeared to do at one point in my recording - but then it started up again and she looked closer and closer to dying. </p><p></p><p>If there is a hereditary component, better that she's gone; but she was a combination of two favorite cow families and was shaping up to be a fantastic animal. I'd been particularly admiring her for the last three or four weeks, with my close work with her in my insemination mob.</p><p></p><p>I've discounted lead because I can't think of any possible source. There are no buildings they can access and no known lead or lead paint anyway, the old farm dump site has been carefully tidied - and in any case, they were in that paddock for only two days over the last few months and not recently - but certainly I will give that more thought. The vet told me that test is pretty expensive, but I hope to discuss that further later today. Interesting that an animal would return to a source though - it tastes sweet, I believe?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1096930, member: 5956"] It was hard being there, seeing her physical distress, although I concluded that for a large part of it, she was probably hardly conscious. I'm not really familiar with seizures, but I presume if there's that much disruption going on, there must be damage to the brain as well? The whole thing went on for such a long time and I expected at any moment she'd quieten - as she appeared to do at one point in my recording - but then it started up again and she looked closer and closer to dying. If there is a hereditary component, better that she's gone; but she was a combination of two favorite cow families and was shaping up to be a fantastic animal. I'd been particularly admiring her for the last three or four weeks, with my close work with her in my insemination mob. I've discounted lead because I can't think of any possible source. There are no buildings they can access and no known lead or lead paint anyway, the old farm dump site has been carefully tidied - and in any case, they were in that paddock for only two days over the last few months and not recently - but certainly I will give that more thought. The vet told me that test is pretty expensive, but I hope to discuss that further later today. Interesting that an animal would return to a source though - it tastes sweet, I believe? [/QUOTE]
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