Posted by notjustair on June 02, 2017 at 21:28:07 from (184.191.48.136):
Had an odd happening I need help with. It's a first for me.
I have the fall heifers I'm keeping here at the home place in the bull pen while the boys are out working. They are between 5-600 pounds. Hand raised. Nice heifers.
Two days ago I was up at the other farm a mile away when a freak storm hit. An inch of rain in just minutes and more hail than I've seen in decades. It was drifted. Up to quarter size but mostly nickel. It threshed the wheat right out of the heads.
After the storm I had to run back over to the home place to get something and one of the heifers was on the wrong side of the fence in the yard. They aren't bucket trained yet so I was preparing for a rodeo. What puzzled me was that I had to kill the hot wire on the inside of the barbed wire as it was still hot. As I approached her I realized she was completely blind. Both eyes were white with the lens blown forward out the front of the ruptured eye. Keep in mind I had feed them every night so she was like this just within the last 18'hours. She had just bumbled through the fence.
I was able to get her into a trailer and into a barn stall. She has spent two days bumbling around and hitting all four walls. Absolutely no sight at all and no chance of saving the eyes. My money is on lightening striking next to her and blowing them out. It wasn't a hit because she has no burned flesh but has stiffened a bit in her walk. There's no other explanation. All of the others are fine, all had all of their shots (including pink eye) and are well. There aren't any hazards in the pen which is really like a 10 acre pasture.
I happen to have a butcher date for a steer on Tuesday so I'll swap them and take her then. I'd feed her out a little but she's extremely dangerous just because she's not accustomed to blindness. You can walk up and scratch her but if she doesn't hear you she will walk right into you. She wouldn't get mean but could take me out trying to load her if she startled. So she's going as hamburger.
My questions are this: has anyone had a similar experience, and do you think the meat would be tainted from the endorphins of the situation. Slaughter usually causes them to wild up a little but she's completely out of her element so she's on high alert all of the time. I guess the only saving grace is that she is so little that she hadn't started to cycle yet. Those hormones weren't dumped into her system for some reason. I don't want to keep her past Tuesday in cause those eyes start to get infected and she would need antibiotics but I also hate to waste the meat by just shooting her. Thoughts?
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