It was,and maybe still is,a problem in Michigan,but I've never heard of any actual dead cows from it. The big problem is that when there's a spike,they'll kick the milkers off. The most extreme problem I've heard of is that they won't drink.
All that said,I had trouble with it. It was 2.5 to 3 volts. I know that doesn't sound like much,but to a cow standing on wet concrete with bare feet,it's enough. The only time I could feel it myself was if I had a crack in a finger or something. Consumers Energy put a split neutral on my transformer so I wasn't catching stray voltage from anybody else's water heater or whatever,up and down the line.
I heard quite an earful from one guy at a meeting one time about the trouble he was having. He had a parlor and free stalls. He never had a problem until he put in a new parlor,then the trouble started. No problem in the old one,but lots of trouble in the new one. He said everything would be going along OK,then all at once the cows would kick the milkers off. The devil of it was,he was still running off the same service off the pole.
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