Diamonds are one cow's meal ticket to stardom in India

AFP/Yahoo ^ | 1/25/04

[martin_fierro]

Diamonds are one cow's meal ticket to stardom in India

AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) - A diamond trader in India's western state of Gujarat has been feeding up a cow for the last 17 days -- not to get more milk but to retrieve the 1,722 diamonds the animal swallowed by mistake.

Sifting daily through the cow's dung, Mohabbatsinh Gohil said that so far he had recovered only 555 of his precious stones.

"At the rate at which the cow is discharging my diamonds, it should take another 30 days to get them all back," said an exasperated Gohil in the town of Limdi, Surendranagar district.

Gohils packet of diamonds, worth about 45,000 rupees (about 1,000 dollars) was munched up by the cow after he accidently dropped it in the street.

The trader has vowed to keep up his daily task of searching through the cow's dung until he has recovered all his gems, but a veterinarian advising him says he is being too optimistic.

"Even though Gohil has succeeded in making the cow shit out some of his diamonds, he will not be able to get all of them back," said the vet, A.S. Manvar.

"The cow is a ruminant animal which has its stomach divided in four compartments. It is impossible to recover all the diamonds," he said.

Meanwhile, the cow has become a centre of attraction for people in Limdi, who flock around it every day waiting for it to drop its offerings to the waiting Gohil.

For every diamond he finds, the crowd breaks into a cheer.

[martin_fierro]

Holy cow. Tough gig.

[xsmommy]

i love me a diamond but i ain't digging thru manure to get me one... ; )

[martin_fierro]

Meanwhile, the cow has become a centre of attraction for people in Limdi, who flock around it every day waiting for it to drop its offerings to the waiting Gohil.
For every diamond he finds, the crowd breaks into a cheer.

Now that's entertainment.

[martin_fierro]

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[martin_fierro]

The trader has vowed to keep up his daily task of searching through the cow's dung until he has recovered all his gems

And for his next trick, ladies and gentlemen, he'll make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've heard of gold diggers, but this is new.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have a recollection from years ago on my uncle's farm that he would "feed" some of his cattle small, very powerful magnets about the size of a .50 caliber round, smooth and rounded on the ends.
He said it was to get the magnets to collect and gather small bits of metal and broken pieces of barbed wire that the livestock had ingested.
This way it would gather in one place in the stomach and would not pass thereby avoiding painful (and expensive) injury to the animal.

[petuniasevan]

Yes; Cow Magnets.

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COW MAGNETS

What are Cow Magnets?

Cow magnets are popular with dairy farmers and veterinarians to help prevent Hardware Disease in their cattle. While grazing, cows eat everything from grass and dirt to nails, staples and bits of bailing wire (referred to as tramp iron). Tramp iron tends to lodge in the honeycombed walls of the recticulum, threatening the surrounding vital organs and causing irritation and inflammation, known as Hardware Disease. The cow loses her appetite and decreases her milk output (dairy cows), or her ability to gain weight (feeder stock). Cow magnets help prevent this disease by attracting stray metal from the folds and crevices of the rumen and recticulum. One magnet works for the life of the cow!

[BraveMan]

Some jewelers love that crap!

[BraveMan]

Gohils packet of diamonds, worth about 45,000 rupees (about 1,000 dollars) was munched up by the cow after he accidently dropped it in the street.

Huh? 1,722 diamonds worth $1,000.00? Something about this story doesn't smell right . . .

[finnman69]

lol paging mark morford

[xsmommy]

but would they dig it out of...crap? ; )

[Moonmad27]

That's just what I was thinking - wow, are those diamonds cheap in India! You're right; No matter what the value of them, the story doesn't smell right anyway!

[Revelation 911]

if youve ever seen a honeycomb tripe - theres a little pocket for every single one LOL

no way they gettin all of them back

[VinayFromBangalore]

On BBC Radio I heard about this cow,and also that the diamonds were rough,unpolished ones.