Posted by Hal/ Eastern WA on March 20, 2011 at 19:48:49 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: o/t dead cow posted by JD2ACWD on March 20, 2011 at 07:22:13:
When I was a kid, we had a 200-300 pound steer calf suddenly die overnight. My Dad and I carefully examined his carcass, but could find no external wound. So we opened him up and did our own autopsy. What we finally found was that he had apparently eaten some plastic sheeting, and that caused an intestinal blockage. My guess was that he was in quite a bit of pain that last few hours.
We were both experienced with butchering, so doing the autopsy was not too bad, other than dealing with the stiffness of rigor mortis. If the animal has not been dead very long, there is little problem with bad smell, but I suppose not everyone could do the job like we did. I don't know what a Vet would charge to do an autopsy, but it would sure be nice to know what killed the animal. We were poor, and I don't think my Dad ever really considered calling the Vet. We were pretty pleased that we were able to find something obviously wrong with the steer. I doubt that we could have detected a heart attack or blood clot problem, since we really didn't have the training to know what to look for.
We decided that the steer must have got hold of the plastic sheeting in our barn, where my Mom had brought some food scraps out to the barn cats and left the wrapper. We were lots more careful about leaving potential hazards around after that, but my Mom had just not considered the plastic as a problem. A learning experience for our family.
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