Thread: 100 Dairy cows Pb poisioned at Southland clay club

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Just thought you guys might be interested in this story.

Sound like bullshit IMO,
More likely nitrate poisoning and an unobservant cow cocky.

Originally Posted by BRADS

Sound like bullshit IMO, More likely nitrate poisoning and an unobservant cow cocky.

The report is very clear from "The Ministry of Primary Industries confirmed this week it was alerted by a Southland veterinary practice on July 23 of dairy cattle dying from lead poisoning on a Southland farm. The cattle had been grazing fodder beet grown on leased land owned by the Nightcaps Clay Target Club at Wreys Bush."


to ""Fonterra has undertaken blood testing of the animals as well as soil and milk testing to provide both the farmer and our cooperative with further reassurance that the risk is managed."

and finaly, "Environment Southland confirmed the lead had become embedded in the fodder beet which was ingested by the cows.

No bull shit there, at least not in the reporting.

I did read the report
Fonterra are never wrong my bad........

Probably bad choice of crop .Gun Club here been on same site for yonks. Beefies graze it .. But only as grass so top bites not lower ...

Gun clubs been here for years, dad shot on it when he was my age, no cows are dead there.

None of that gives any indication of what the test results showed if they were actually performed:rolleyes:

I smell a rat.

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Might of been a fucked up clay shoot

Two paragraphs in that report contradict themselves. Firstly they weren't in milk. Then farmer decided to kill the remaining stock.

quotes:
"Approximately 20 affected cattle, from a mob of about 100 cows, died or were euthanised at that time, the farmer subsequently chose to humanely slaughter the remaining cattle. Some of the cattle were pregnant," MPI said in a statement issued to the Fiordland Advocate.''

(so the rest were killed?)

quote
"Cattle were removed from the affected paddocks to safe grazing and have been monitored through tests on blood and milk to confirm milk from the cows was safe."

(How can the rest be moved if the first paragraph says the remaining stock were destroyed?)

(And the above paragraph says they were testing milk)

quote
"Fonterra's general manager of milk supply, technical and assurance, Dianne Schumacher, said the herd was not milking at the time of the exposure and there was no food safety risk."

(You can't test milk if the cows aren't milking)


Something is wrong with that report......................... Oh wait, its the media

Originally Posted by Dundee

Two paragraphs in that report contradict themselves. Firstly they weren't in milk. Then farmer decided to kill the remaining stock.

quotes:
"Approximately 20 affected cattle, from a mob of about 100 cows, died or were euthanised at that time, the farmer subsequently chose to humanely slaughter the remaining cattle. Some of the cattle were pregnant," MPI said in a statement issued to the Fiordland Advocate.''

(so the rest were killed?)

quote
"Cattle were removed from the affected paddocks to safe grazing and have been monitored through tests on blood and milk to confirm milk from the cows was safe."

(How can the rest be moved if the first paragraph says the remaining stock were destroyed?)

(And the above paragraph says they were testing milk)

quote
"Fonterra's general manager of milk supply, technical and assurance, Dianne Schumacher, said the herd was not milking at the time of the exposure and there was no food safety risk."

(You can't test milk if the cows aren't milking)


Something is wrong with that report......................... Oh wait, its the media

Come on bro don't blame the media they have two deal with the dairy farmer

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Radio said that they had grazed Swedes previously but that the beets somehow concentrated the lead from the ground and that it was the first time that they had been fed beets

Originally Posted by BRADS

Come on bro don't blame the media they have two deal with the dairy farmer

yeah the poor bastard

Originally Posted by BRADS

I did read the report
Fonterra are never wrong my bad........

Perhaps but have you overlooked and not given an opinion upon....

......."The Ministry of Primary Industries confirmed this week it was alerted by a Southland veterinary practice on July 23 of dairy cattle dying from lead poisoning on a Southland farm."

and ...."The cattle had been grazing fodder beet grown on leased land owned by the Nightcaps Clay Target Club at Wreys Bush."
"
and.....""Environment Southland confirmed the lead had become embedded in the fodder beet. which was ingested by the cows."

Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper

Perhaps but have you overlooked and not given an opinion upon....

......."The Ministry of Primary Industries confirmed this week it was alerted by a Southland veterinary practice on July 23 of dairy cattle dying from lead poisoning on a Southland farm."

and ...."The cattle had been grazing fodder beet grown on leased land owned by the Nightcaps Clay Target Club at Wreys Bush."
"
and.....""Environment Southland confirmed the lead had become embedded in the fodder beet. which was ingested by the cows."

1 vets are often wrong
Particularly in poisoning cases.

2 this time of year nitrate levels are high in crops.

3 as has been pointed out by others nothing adds up.....someone is trying two get there dead cows paid for

4 I think your knob