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When you find a dead one, what happened?
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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1099200" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>I was doing a bit of self-kicking this morning, thinking we should have cut her up a bit more. But it's hard at the time to do that stuff. I was so shocked by the whole thing, both from watching it happen and because she was such a lovely heifer, carrying high hopes for a long future. My pretty-tough partner cried when he shot her! We both found it extremely distressing.</p><p></p><p>I bravely cut open the head of my favorite-ever cow, her grandmother, and that achieved nothing except a permanent memory of unpleasantness and some residual annoyance at the vet. In this case it presumably would have been hard to see whether any bleeding or other abnormality was present before or because she was shot. Shooting her seemed the only reasonable thing to do at the time. </p><p></p><p>A brain sample may have eliminated the Thiamine question.</p><p></p><p>Results back so far are simply that her liver stores of copper and selenium were ok. I wondered about the copper, having not injected that group lately (our iron levels disrupt copper absorption in the cattle on this farm). I'm told the lead test takes a couple of weeks.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate all your thoughts on this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1099200, member: 5956"] I was doing a bit of self-kicking this morning, thinking we should have cut her up a bit more. But it's hard at the time to do that stuff. I was so shocked by the whole thing, both from watching it happen and because she was such a lovely heifer, carrying high hopes for a long future. My pretty-tough partner cried when he shot her! We both found it extremely distressing. I bravely cut open the head of my favorite-ever cow, her grandmother, and that achieved nothing except a permanent memory of unpleasantness and some residual annoyance at the vet. In this case it presumably would have been hard to see whether any bleeding or other abnormality was present before or because she was shot. Shooting her seemed the only reasonable thing to do at the time. A brain sample may have eliminated the Thiamine question. Results back so far are simply that her liver stores of copper and selenium were ok. I wondered about the copper, having not injected that group lately (our iron levels disrupt copper absorption in the cattle on this farm). I'm told the lead test takes a couple of weeks. I appreciate all your thoughts on this. [/QUOTE]
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