I was down at my hunting lease this past week. I found two full grown mature cows laying dead within 5 feet of each other. They appeared to following each other and both were facing the same direction. They both appeared to have been dead for about a week or more. At first I thought they might have died from poison water as there is a dipping vat/pens within appox. 200 yards. I told the tick rider about the situation and suggested that he check. He did so but said that the dipping vat hadn't been used since the late '80s and the pens were closed off. (I didn't think to check myself at the time) He commented that the 2 cows showed no sign of struggle or "aggonizing". He said the only thing he could figure was they were hit by lighting.

What I thought strange was that nothing had eaten on the 2 cows. No coyotes, buzzards, etc. There were buzzards and Mexican eagles (Cara Caras) hanging around when I drove up but no signs of anything touching them except for flies/maggots. The stinch was terrible. That was how I actually found the cattle along with the vultures sitting around.


I told another guy about this and he said they had cattle hit by lightening before and nothing would touch the carcases either.

Anybody have any idea why that is?

Aliens

Maybe they don't like their meat fried?

Shocking story though!

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Originally posted by shakari:
Maybe they don't like their meat fried?

Shocking story though!

Yeah, but the maggots do!

Not common, but cattle get killed by lightning in our area with some degree of frequency.My neighbor tells of lightning hitting a tree with a bunch of cattle under it and killing 6 cow and 6 calves when his father was running the dairy. According to him, all the calves belonged to different (live) cattle and he had six orphans on his hands. I've had a couple killed by lightning in the last 15 years.