That brings up another point of confusion. Everything that we've heard says that the carcass should feel stiff and crackly; this one had been dead apprx. 24 hours and was soft and mushy.
We do vaccinate. However, we have only been here a short time and these bulls were bought elsewhere. The new owners are not sure if they had the booster shot or not and don't know where the previous guy bought them from.
We had a bull die from what the vet said was black leg. We were told that vultures and coyotes would not eat an infected carcass; however, the next day, it was covered with buzzards and you could tell the coyotes had gotten hold of it. The vet also told us that we didn't need to burn or haul...
This is something that I haven't heard of before, maybe should have but it's never come up. What is a slide? Just in case I'm not making sense, we were offered $ for calves, 2% shrinkage and 8 cent slide. What is this exactly?