Post by tt on Apr 3, 2006 11:22:43 GMT -5
Last Wed. 4/5/06 I was headed over to Marathon, Ia. to talk to a family about their Haunted House. On the way I listened to stereo in my minivan, hoping to find a station that had some upbeat tunes playing on it.
It was becoming increasingly difficult to find a radio station that wouldn't cut out on me, or fade in & out due the weather and rolling hills. But finally I found a station that was coming in clear. But to my dismay it was time for the news report.
The DJ who was reporting on the Radio Station droned on about the Farm Markets, and the futures in corn and soybeans. Then the DJ started to report the damndest thing I had ever heard. They said there was a new strain of Mad Cow disease that was causing Mother Cows to eat their new born Calves.
As is Mother Nature's way for a Mother Cow and her Calf to bond in the early minutes of the Calf's life, the Cow will lick and consume the muck off the Calf, and go so far as to consume the after birth membrane too. This membrane actually gives the Mother Cow a lot of needed nutrition after having giving birth to the Calf.
But this new disease causes the Cows to start eating their Calves too.
Luckily Vetinarians have found this strain of disease only occurs in Mother Cows who have multiple briths ie: twins, and triplets.
The Cow's seemingly don't stop at eating the after birth, and the continue to eat until all seven of their stomachs are full.
The Vet's say these Cows are deficient in critical Amieno Acids which causes the Cow's to become canabalistic in their behavior. But once the nutients from the Calve's bodies have started to equalize the Cow's nutritional deficiencies, the Canablaistic tendencies seem to wain.
So if you are a farmer, with Mother Cows who are having multiple births, and you notice your cows are consuming their young, just leave the Cow alone. They usually don't eat more than one calf.
There was one report where a Farmer tried to intervien to save the Calf, only to have the Cow turn on him, and start to devour the Farmer!
Once the Cow was captured in a pen to quarentine the animal, it was heard to be mooing in the direction of other nearby Cows. An Animal Behaviorist who was at the farm, testified in Court that the Cow was saying Human's taste like Chicken!
Go figure!
TT
It was becoming increasingly difficult to find a radio station that wouldn't cut out on me, or fade in & out due the weather and rolling hills. But finally I found a station that was coming in clear. But to my dismay it was time for the news report.
The DJ who was reporting on the Radio Station droned on about the Farm Markets, and the futures in corn and soybeans. Then the DJ started to report the damndest thing I had ever heard. They said there was a new strain of Mad Cow disease that was causing Mother Cows to eat their new born Calves.
As is Mother Nature's way for a Mother Cow and her Calf to bond in the early minutes of the Calf's life, the Cow will lick and consume the muck off the Calf, and go so far as to consume the after birth membrane too. This membrane actually gives the Mother Cow a lot of needed nutrition after having giving birth to the Calf.
But this new disease causes the Cows to start eating their Calves too.
Luckily Vetinarians have found this strain of disease only occurs in Mother Cows who have multiple briths ie: twins, and triplets.
The Cow's seemingly don't stop at eating the after birth, and the continue to eat until all seven of their stomachs are full.
The Vet's say these Cows are deficient in critical Amieno Acids which causes the Cow's to become canabalistic in their behavior. But once the nutients from the Calve's bodies have started to equalize the Cow's nutritional deficiencies, the Canablaistic tendencies seem to wain.
So if you are a farmer, with Mother Cows who are having multiple births, and you notice your cows are consuming their young, just leave the Cow alone. They usually don't eat more than one calf.
There was one report where a Farmer tried to intervien to save the Calf, only to have the Cow turn on him, and start to devour the Farmer!
Once the Cow was captured in a pen to quarentine the animal, it was heard to be mooing in the direction of other nearby Cows. An Animal Behaviorist who was at the farm, testified in Court that the Cow was saying Human's taste like Chicken!
Go figure!
TT