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:???: I had never heard of a cow choaking to death on her afterbirth and I've been around ranching almost all my life. :???:

I have seen a cow down and upon digging found a huge wad of hay dislodged in the back of her throat where she couldn't get it to come out or go on down.
 
WEll, it is true! I have seen and heard of other occassions where cows chocked on afterbirth. I have also in ranching all of my life. Also heard they eat it as so preditors less likely to bother them and also heard they may be lacking some mineral(cannot remember what).But I think it is more due to the fact the cow is destoying the evidence for preditors. Anyway, I imagine the cow has it figured out :o 8)
 
Faster horses said:
We had some bad luck this morning. My husband was feeding and he found a bull with a bad broken leg laying down by the creek. He said there was blood all over, so it must be a compound fracture. He doesn't know if they got in a fight or if the bull just slipped on the ice and fell. It is so icy here. We feel pretty bad, hate to see anything in pain.

He just came in and got the gun...
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If he has been injured severl hours, there is a good chance that meat will have a bad flaveor and smell to it. You would probbly get by useing it for tacos or something like that but you probbly won't like it for making a plain hambuger.

had a cow got hit by a car, butchered her the next day and meat had the bad flaver/smell. since we butchered her, the guys auto insurance would not pay anything.
 
Faster horses said:
Its gonna cost about $300 to have him butchered and ground up. It has already been done. :shock:

I hope we don't throw good money after bad! :roll:

Guess we will see. The meat looked and smelled fine and had a nice fat cover. :???:
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FH, there seems to be lots of "luck of the draw" in butchering beef. We really like our grass fat, 3 to 7 year old retired Longhorn roping steers. Our locker guy hangs them 21 days or more and they eat fine, if a bit on the tough side for some steaks.

We have bought corn fed young open hiefer and butchered under same conditions and it wasn't very good. Seemed to have little flavor, and was no more tender than our old steers. So maybe there is an element of individual taste [references involved in different stories on this thread.

I wonder if laying in that cold creek water kept the meat in better condition than had he not been there? Sure glad it wasn't a hot day, for the bulls sake. Seems like that would have added to any suffering. They don't seem to like heat much anyway.

Hope it is some of the best beef you have ever eaten! And you have had your bad luck now, so the rest of the winter should be better.

MRJ
 
Ditto...the best tasting burger I ever ate was a retired and grass fattened long horn former roping steer. Couldn't believe it, this true! Age of the animal I believe is the answer, as he wasn't a long young'n anymore.
 

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