PureCountry
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A local guy found a cow and calf dead the other morning, and not in ANY usual manner any of us have ever seen before. They were both laid out as if they'd been placed, on their sides, and for lack of a better word, mutilated. The cows head had been removed, and a fair bit of flesh had been stripped from the face. The exposed flesh looked charred or cotterized. The head was laying in front of the body where it should be, just - detached. Other parts of her had been removed in surgical fashion, but with everything cotterized.
The calf was downright bewildering. It was opened up, with all of its internals removed, and I mean ALL. I've never seen anything like it. Anyone who's ever dressed a critter out knows what I'm talking about when I say that you never get everything from inside the ribcage. There's always bits and pieces of membrane, tissue, tallow and what-have-you stuck to the ribs. Not on this calf - it was so clean it looked like someone had sand-blasted the insides out. The meat between the ribs was intact and unscathed, but the insides of the rib bones were shiny, glossy white. It's pelvis had also been stripped of flesh and hide, as clean as those bleached steer skulls you see at the fairs.
The kicker of it all was that with all this damage, you don't see a drop of blood anywhere. How do you do that to a WHITE calf, and not get a drop of red on the hide? They had some fella come out who studies these things, and he scanned the area with a gygometer which tests for radiation. He found high levels of it around the carcasses, but nowhere else. He claims that nothing will grow in that area for maybe 2 years, says he's seen it before. Also said that these were similar to others he's seen in the past 10 years.
Strange stuff. I'm not postin' pictures on here - too graphic. But if anyone wants 'em e-mailed, just pm me.
The calf was downright bewildering. It was opened up, with all of its internals removed, and I mean ALL. I've never seen anything like it. Anyone who's ever dressed a critter out knows what I'm talking about when I say that you never get everything from inside the ribcage. There's always bits and pieces of membrane, tissue, tallow and what-have-you stuck to the ribs. Not on this calf - it was so clean it looked like someone had sand-blasted the insides out. The meat between the ribs was intact and unscathed, but the insides of the rib bones were shiny, glossy white. It's pelvis had also been stripped of flesh and hide, as clean as those bleached steer skulls you see at the fairs.
The kicker of it all was that with all this damage, you don't see a drop of blood anywhere. How do you do that to a WHITE calf, and not get a drop of red on the hide? They had some fella come out who studies these things, and he scanned the area with a gygometer which tests for radiation. He found high levels of it around the carcasses, but nowhere else. He claims that nothing will grow in that area for maybe 2 years, says he's seen it before. Also said that these were similar to others he's seen in the past 10 years.
Strange stuff. I'm not postin' pictures on here - too graphic. But if anyone wants 'em e-mailed, just pm me.