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An inconvenient truth

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Soapweed

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A cow got in the tank.
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She died.
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It was inconvenient.
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It's the truth.
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Ten-four, over and out. :roll:
 
The heat get her Soap? That is too bad, we have never lost an adult cow in water but we have lost a calf or two in the mud when it gets real hot.. The strangest cow resuce we ever had was one that was stuck in the old sandpoint pit... Cows broke into the barn, she wandered over to the wood covered pit and broke through, took out th hydrant which flooded the whole area up.. It had just been switched from a sanpoint to a well at that time.. Found her in there and we endedup draiing the water and than getting a chain around her and using soe pullys to get her out..That was on the fourth of July two years ago and my neighbor came over to help and than they stayed and helped me fix the hydrant all at about 11:00 at night.. Something about good neighbors or whatever.. I would be lost without those folks help from time to time, can't ever seem to thank them enough but they won't accept anything but a thank you and say "One day you can help us out"..
 
kolanuraven said:
Surely the poor ol dumb thing didn't lay down & drown!!!! What got'er??
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Kola, she drank too much water and busted a gut.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Prove me wrong! :lol:
 
Mike said:
kolanuraven said:
Surely the poor ol dumb thing didn't lay down & drown!!!! What got'er??
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Kola, she drank too much water and busted a gut.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Prove me wrong! :lol:
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Geeezz, here we go with this " prove it" crap again!!!! :lol: :lol:

Maybe she ' swole' up on hooch!

Ate some bad grain, drank a lot of water...it's been hot....COW BOMB!!!
 
I dunno.... Somehow there has got to be a way to blame Canada :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I'm going to go with heat stress.. See Mike, if it had been one of those white cows of yours she would have been just fine.
 
Look at the faces of the other cows in the crowd. They're like

" I didn't do it"

" Lordy Bernice, what didja do"

" I told her not go swimming w/o floaties"

" I told her not to dive in"

Cows act soooooo weird when one of theirs is dead.
 
I have very rarely found a cow dead by itself, like lightning strike or the one time a poor dumb cow got caught in an lectric fence (The poor dear)... Even worse is when you put one down but I think that works like that for every social animal... We put a dog down once at home 3 years ago, vet came out and everything (I think the vet was as shook up as we were by the whole thing. Put another dog down on Tuesday and used the same vet... She was all shook up again).. The other three dogs freaked out and each one came up as if to say goodbye.. I think that was about as hard to watch as it was for us to know we had to put him down..
 
Yeah i had an old horse i grew up with was a good booger and he got struck by lightning and i went out with the backhoe to burry him i dug the hole and when it came time to push him in i couldnt do it i had to get another guy that was there to do it , i just couldnt bring myself to push him off in the hole or burry him either one .
 
kolanuraven said:
Look at the faces of the other cows in the crowd. They're like

" I didn't do it"

" Lordy Bernice, what didja do"

" I told her not go swimming w/o floaties"

" I told her not to dive in"

Cows act soooooo weird when one of theirs is dead.
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For just being dumb old cows, they seemed to be standing back at a respectful distance from the recently departed. Their mood was properly somber. :wink:

The cow hadn't been dead too long when I arrived. Had I been a couple hours earlier, I might have been able to save her. She was just a young four-year-old healthy cow. In my own mind, I am thinking another cow (or bull) butted at her as she stood near the tank. She fell in with her back downhill and her nose under water. Being disoriented and not knowing which way was up, I think she just drowned on the spot. Having grown up in a dry arid country, she never had the opportunity to learn how to swim. There was still air escaping her lungs when I arrived.
 
The most interesting thing about this to me is, I never realized how shallow those tanks were.. For some reason I always pictured them going down below ground level.. Might have to build something like that tank on this property in a place or two.. Might work out for us better than the 2000 gallon tanks we have.
 
Yep, mine too on a good hot day... I can find some calves or cows in my tanks as it is on the hotter days. I don't recall ever having anyone drown but have had a few calves loose a bit of hair and hide trying to crawl back out.. Generally they need a bit of assistance.
 
I have to wonder just what killed that cow?? The water was not deep enough for her to drown in? Something very strange happened there!! I guess if you stay around lone enough , you will see a lot odd things.
 
Those low tanks are the type the Game & Fish encourages ranchers to use in antelope country. They also encourage that they be placed away from trees, etc. since the antelope won't drink if they're worried about predators.

I'd sure be suspicious that the cow drowned, too. Who knows....strange things happen.
 
Cows are very inovative creatures when it comes to getting themselves killed. I've seen one hanging from a fork in the only tree in a pasture, many dead on their backs on nearly flat ground, bloated on God knows what, drowned like lemmings in the creek, the list is a never ending one.
In the 'Case of Soapweeds Cow', I think I would just chalk it up to another cow finding another inovative method of expiration.
 
Never a good "find" --

We have cows in this country that'd drown in that much water :) It's rare. :) :)


But usually a find like that here would mean a weed of some sort --they eat it, head to water and the first drink drops them over dead. Then you stand there looking around to see where in the tarnation they found ANYTHING green!
 
Usually around here if you find them dead near a waterhole it means algae...Had waterholes go bad over night and the only way you knew was when you found a dozen dead cows laying around it the next day :shock: :( .....

But that tank should be moving water that I would not think would go bad....
I have to agree with Silver on this one....
In the 'Case of Soapweeds Cow', I think I would just chalk it up to another cow finding another inovative method of expiration.
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