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 Dead cow
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09/22/09 03:43 PM
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I went out to a 600 acre lot for dove hunting this weekend in Denton and noticed there were quite a few large skeletons and one still had some skin on it of dead cows.
For you land owners/cattle owners, what is the likely cause? Do coyotes take down full size cattle?
If you think about it, that's a large sum of beef $$ that went down. And there were like 5 scattered about.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 03:52 PM
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rifleman
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could be a lot of things..lack of water, died while calving, laid down wrong and couldn't get up, old age. And could be a lot scattered in one location b/c that is where the landowner moves them to when they die.
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Re: Dead cow
[Re: rifleman]
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09/22/09 03:59 PM
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a lot of times they can die from a lack of grasses/hay when it gets dry like it has been, I think they get what they call gout? could be wrong there, I just know we lost a few a few years ago under the same conditions.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 04:00 PM
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BOBO the Clown
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could be a lot of things..lack of water, died while calving, laid down wrong and couldn't get up, old age. And could be a lot scattered in one location b/c that is where the landowner moves them to when they die. Very true.. Cows can die from just about anything, eating baling twine and or plastic trash, to many oak leaves, to much johnson grass at the wrong time of year, all kinds of parasites, deworming for grubs when they already have them.. ect. Sounds like that his dead pile.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, b/c they know not victory nor defeat"- #26 TR
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 04:02 PM
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Could be shotgun hulls that were not picked up.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 04:08 PM
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BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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Could be shotgun hulls that were not picked up. x1000 
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, b/c they know not victory nor defeat"- #26 TR
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 04:08 PM
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rifleman
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oh yes... the dreaded plastic bag. We had a steer die last year from blockage. And when we cleaned it, we decided to investigate exactly what caused it and we found... 1 plastic bag, 2' of waterhose, a small portion of carpet, and a lead rope. Not sure how it got ahold of any of it.
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Re: Dead cow
[Re: rifleman]
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09/22/09 04:16 PM
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BOBO the Clown
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oh yes... the dreaded plastic bag. We had a steer die last year from blockage. And when we cleaned it, we decided to investigate exactly what caused it and we found... 1 plastic bag, 2' of waterhose, a small portion of carpet, and a lead rope. Not sure how it got ahold of any of it. smiple thier cows!!!! Catus tongue my personal favorite that with in it's self explains everything
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, b/c they know not victory nor defeat"- #26 TR
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 05:25 PM
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I use to work in a slaughter house when I was young. You were the Shiznits if you found a magnet while running guts, lol. A lot of dairy farmers used them cause you'd never know what got baled in some of that hay or what else the cows would eat. They looked like big ol' worm pills and they gave them to the cows the same way, worm gun. I used to have a bunch of them, but ....not anymore. I wonder if they still use them? Answered my own question, lol: http://allmagnetics.com/education/cowmag.htm
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Mmmm Hmmm
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Re: Dead cow
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#920463
09/22/09 05:37 PM
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 05:39 PM
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BOBO the Clown
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I use to work in a slaughter house when I was young. You were the Shiznits if you found a magnet while running guts, lol. A lot of dairy farmers used them cause you'd never know what got baled in some of that hay or what else the cows would eat. They looked like big ol' worm pills and they gave them to the cows the same way, worm gun. I used to have a bunch of them, but ....not anymore. I wonder if they still use them? Answered my own question, lol: http://allmagnetics.com/education/cowmag.htm Learn something new every day. Cool stuff
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, b/c they know not victory nor defeat"- #26 TR
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 05:51 PM
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d.g.ruff
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I found a Coors can in a cow stomach once. Of course it had been all chewed up, lol.
Mmmm Hmmm
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 07:01 PM
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A few years back we had a bad lighting storm and found five cows with their horns and hoofs blown off.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 08:19 PM
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PrimitiveHunter
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I went out to a 600 acre lot for dove hunting this weekend in Denton and noticed there were quite a few large skeletons and one still had some skin on it of dead cows.
For you land owners/cattle owners, what is the likely cause? Do coyotes take down full size cattle?
If you think about it, that's a large sum of beef $$ that went down. And there were like 5 scattered about. Whatever it was it probably highly contagious and airborne. Hope you didn't get within 300' for the carcasses. 
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 08:28 PM
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I heard Indian corn is bad for cows.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/22/09 08:30 PM
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I heard Indian corn is bad for cows. 
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Re: Dead cow
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#920884
09/22/09 08:42 PM
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TX_LT230FH
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smiple thier cows!!!! Catus tongue my personal favorite that with in it's self explains everything Huh?
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Re: Dead cow
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09/23/09 01:02 AM
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BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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smiple thier cows!!!! Catus tongue my personal favorite that with in it's self explains everything Huh? cactus tongue sorry was typing to fast earlier. Some cows find cactus very yummy no matter what other food is around. If it hasn't been burned they get spines in the tongue... tongue gets infected and swells up... can't eat very well any more... then die. Point was if a cow will eat a spined cactus it will eat anything
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, b/c they know not victory nor defeat"- #26 TR
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Re: Dead cow
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09/23/09 02:14 AM
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Sounds like the farmer's graveyard to me.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/23/09 03:17 AM
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could be anyting, ive seen em die from all kinda crap.....remember, if a cow brakes a hip, and cant walk, it dies.. if u brake a hip, u get in a wheel chair. basically, they can get all kinda problems as mentioned above.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/23/09 04:13 AM
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oh yes... the dreaded plastic bag. We had a steer die last year from blockage. And when we cleaned it, we decided to investigate exactly what caused it and we found... 1 plastic bag, 2' of waterhose, a small portion of carpet, and a lead rope. Not sure how it got ahold of any of it. perfect case of hardware disease.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/23/09 11:50 AM
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When we had cows we had a place we dumped the carcasses at on the property and ussualy had one or two die every year from varios causes. Most farmers do that run cattle.
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Re: Dead cow
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09/23/09 01:57 PM
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Re: Dead cow
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09/26/09 07:22 AM
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Re: Dead cow
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09/26/09 06:54 PM
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We had a bunch last year get caught up in the mud of the low tanks.
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