200 Dead Cows Found In Wisconsin Field

Channel3000.com ^ | 8:18 am CST January 15, 2011 | Channel3000.com

[The Comedian]

TOWN OF STOCKTON, Wis. -- An investigation is under way after 200 dead cows were found in a field in the Town of Stockton.

(More, but not much at link)

[The Comedian]

Fireworks again?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[gusopol3]

Sounds like the Packers are going down.

[chickadee]

Birds falling out of the sky, fish washing up on shore, 200 dead cows, volcanoes erupting, floods in Australia . . . let’s pass a carbon tax to put an end to it all.

[Ditter]

Did they freeze to death? We were in Oklahoma for the recent cold snap, that was bad enough, I would have hated to be in Wisconsin.

[OldDeckHand]

". . . let’s pass a carbon tax to put an end to it all."

..or gun control, or the Dream Act.

[marktwain]

Wow, that is a nasty economic loss! I think $1000 per animal is not unreasonable, so this would be a $200,000 loss.

[EGPWS]

Fireworks again?

Nope, just a lack of our support of a totalitarian government to take care of everything.

We need to increase our forced donations to government to prevent these crisis from happening.

[marktwain]

At the site, it is said that the owner was working with a veterinarian, and they likely had an infectious disease.

[The Comedian]

I'm just guessing that the Space Weirdness ping list will be interested in this because of all the other animal die-offs going on since Jan. 1, and the possible implication of near-space events as a possible cause.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[silverleaf]

They’re not dead- they’re restin’
Or pinin’ for the fjords

[theDentist]

Have they blamed it on Sarah Palin yet?

[Don Corleone]

Palin’s fault?

[EGPWS]

We were in Oklahoma for the recent cold snap, that was bad enough, I would have hated to be in Wisconsin.

Cold snap?

Heh, I'm still wearing short sleeved shirts here in Tulsa.

[bunkerhill7]

Al Gore and Global Warmers are gonna milk this for all it`s got

[The Comedian]

At the site, it is said that the owner was working with a veterinarian, and they likely had an infectious disease.

Then it's the Andromeda Strain, because nothing, *nothing* biological kills off an entire herd at the same moment.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Brilliant]

The article says they believe they died of a virus.

[EGPWS]

Palin’s fault?

Did Sarah mentions cows (or even just animals)...(or just any living thing...) in any way recently on her site?

[silverleaf]

Wisconsin cows are just not used to cold winter weather (sarc)

the fact that they herd together to share their body warmth should clue us in that freezin’ is an unlikely reason

[Will88]

That’s an odd situation if all the 200 dead cows were found at the same time. That’s the way the headline reads. Most anyone with 200 cows would be checking on them at least once a day, and if they were dairy cows they’d be milking them twice (?) a day.

[OpusatFR]

“At the site, it is said that the owner was working with a veterinarian, and they likely had an infectious disease.”

My family raised beef cattle. All drop at once? Sounds more like poisoning to me.