45000? For one Heifer? I call….BS.
Yeah, I think it had one too many zeroes.........
Value of heifer, and all calves it would have conceivably produced.
“Men” shot this cow? They need to not denigrate that term.
I would estimate $1500-$2000 for the cow.
How many calves would that heifer had?
Every lost calf to that heifer over it’s projected life is $$$!
What if it were a young milk-producing cow? Healthy and strong to produce calves…?
DEPENDING ON HOW MANY YEARS THAT HEIFER PRODUCES CALVES & MILK-—MIGHT BE CORRECT...
-45000? For one Heifer? I call….BS.-
If you want to negotiate for the price of a cow, do it before you shoot the cow.
Your log on is close to being correct, jmo. But we all
make mistakes as we progress thru life. Take care.
Might have been a special breed. People are trying to bring back some breeds that are now rare.
Or they may be calculating the way they do in any wrongful death suit. If this heifer had been allowed to live her life she would have produced so many calves or so much milk and so that is her worth. Not what she would have been worth at the knackers.
A dairy cow produces a couple of gallons of milk per day for several years. She’s worth a LOT more than a simple meat animal, especially since she still hasn’t been bred yet, so she hadn’t even started repaying her raising costs.
My buddy who’s a dairy farmer said that could be the low end for all kinds of certain specialty cows or bulls.
“A bred heifer can cost around $1,300. Meanwhile, mature cows can cost around $4,000 to $5,000 each.”
Don’t know the breeding on this one but it doesn’t sound out of bounds if it was mature.
Maybe $4,500? As usual, there was either a typo in the article or the “journalist” had no sense of reality as to what the cow was worth.
Talk about two idiots...