Austin Jones
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- Feb 29, 2012
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I just had the best steer we have bred drop dead last night. He was a May calf out of Monopoly, roughly 1050, and had done pretty well at Beef Congress. I went down to the barn last night to shoot hoops with a friend and found him laying dead in his pen all bloated. He had just been fine when I fed not 5 hours ago. Friends of ours had the same thing happen to them, there calf was fine one minute and dead 15 minutes later and they sent the calf to have tests to see what killed it but nothing was found. Vets say they don't know what the cause is and there really is no way to stop it unless you catch it right when they start to bloat and get some medicine in them right away. I was just wondering if anybody else has had this happen or heard of it. Please reply back. Thanks