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First the birds, now 200 cows dead in Wisconsin

hypocritexposer

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The Portage County Humane Society is investigating the death of about 200 cows on a town of Stockton farm.

The Portage County Sheriff's Department was notified this afternoon by the owner of the cattle at 8055 Fourth Ave., town of Stockton.

A local veterinarian, who was not named in the news release, suspects the animals died from infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus/ bovine viral diarrhea. Samples from the dead animals were sent to Madison to confirm the diagnosis.

The sheriff's office says there is no threat to humans or other animals.

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20110114/SPJ0101/110114132/New-200-dead-cows-found-on-Stockton-farm
 

John SD

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The information I have from this NAT thread is that is the cattle actually were 1200 lb Holstein steers and cause of death was a pasteurella outbreak. http://www.talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=207726&mid=1549934#M1549934
 

jingo2

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Bad deal for someone....but we all know that cattle will die.... Sounds like they need better health management
 

burnt

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When something like that hits, it may have nothing to do with management.
Back in the '80s a wave of BRSV tore through this part of the country and wiped out huge numbers of red veal.

We had 240 on feed at the time, just smashing good calves, healthy as could be. Within 3 weeks, we were treating over half of them and within 3 months, lost 1/3 of them.

What was just as bad as the mortality was the resultant morbidity. Half of the survivors were poor doers and never got back to their original condition.

Not many corn-fed veal guys, if any, escaped that round.
 

Dwight

New member
Here is what they finally came up with for the cause. Just really bad luck on the owners part.

http://magissues.farmprogress.com/WSA/WA03Mar11/wsa009.pdf
 

balestabber

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i feel sorry for the owner.but i think 'mold' can be a bad word.be it hay,silage,or sweet potatoes.altho dairy cattle probably love alfalfa and sweet potatoes,they both can be harmful if fed at the wrong time.
 
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