Posted on 01/15/2011 7:38:03 AM PST by The Comedian
Which horseman was “pestilence”, again?
If not fireworks, it can only be climatic warming. First the fish, then birds, then cows, and ,gasp, next H. Sapiens. The sky is indeed falling/s
I think $1000 per animal is not unreasonable, so this would be a $200,000 loss.
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That was my first thought. Easy 200,000. Probably closer to $250,000-$300,000, maybe more if they were breeding stock.
*** ..or gun control, or the Dream Act. ***
Exactly. You have to wonder if those in DC get the same news that we do.
Well... facts don't help when trying to support an internet conspiracy theory. Party pooper!
I hope the farmer was insured. And I hope that it isn’t the start of a bigger epidemic.
If it was a bad vaccine, and they were all vaccinated at the same time, then it would be possible for the cattle to die overnight or over a period of a day.
LOL! Yeah right, short sleeves! Wed. morning in OKC it was 13 degrees with a wind chill factor of -3. We were there for a bucking bull and horse sale, thank goodness it was in an indoor arena.
I am a Gulf Coast girl I am not used to temperatures like that.
Someone poison the cattle tank?
Prince Rebus has willed it.
Well, unless you are the cow on the outside ring of the herd.
Seriously though, if the cows did have some disease (virus), then a cold snap could kill them all at once.
They could have survived the cold, or the virus, but not both.
Now it will be litigated at great expense. If agriculture were centralized in large collective farms with communal ownershop of the means of production, then we could avoid the expensive litigation. The farmer and the veterinarian would both be arrested, interrogated until they confessed to their counterrevolutionary wrecking activities, then be shot and the matter closed. Just one of the advantages of collective farming, comrades. Get on the bandwagon! (Comrade Obama is watching, and planning...)
Keep bragging and I'll have them turn the HAARP transmitter in Puerto Rico back on.
: )
My thought exactly.
Actually they're just resting. Lovely plumage.
I thought one of the farmers thought it was some sort of very contagious viral bovine rhinotracheitis.
Mysterious infection is killing B.C. salmon
MARK HUME
VANCOUVER— From Friday’s Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 6:55PM EST
Last updated Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 7:58AM EST
Excerpt:
Large numbers of sockeye salmon are dying in the Fraser River, before spawning, because of a mysterious virus, new research suggests.
Historical records show that some fish always die en route to their spawning beds, but since the early 1990s the problem has become increasingly acute – with more than two million fish dying in some years. Researchers have long puzzled over what was causing the seemingly healthy fish to suddenly stop swimming and turn belly up.
A large team of researchers from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans and three Canadian universities has now found most of the fish that die before spawning have a common “genomic signature” – or a pattern that shows changes have taken place in an array of genes activated to fight infection.
“Our hypothesis is that the genomic signal associated with elevated mortality is in response to a virus infecting fish before river entry and that persists to the spawning areas,” says the report published in the journal Science on Thursday.
Yeah, it was only 7°F at our place Thursday morning when I left for work. Darn near balmy!
“Then it’s the Andromeda Strain, because nothing, *nothing* biological kills off an entire herd at the same moment.”
True, but nothing in the article claimed that they all died at the same moment, the same day, or even the same week. It just said that 200 cows were found dead in a field. It is also possible that a large number of them were in very poor condition, and the recent cold wave provided the additional stress to finish them off.
The article did not mention how many live cattle were found in the field with the dead ones.
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