More strange deaths

[Brett]

Bigger critters now.  Two hundred cows mysteriously bought the farm in Wisconsin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/200-dead-cows-wisconsin_n_810248.html

[spikehorn]

I think its M. Night Shyamalan

[Old Fart]

They kind of look like they froze to death............

[Shu]

Anyone remember the cattle mutilations of the late 70's?

The OP's weren't mutilated but I just had to throw that out.

+1 Spikehorn

[teamnelson]

On one of our regular 4 mile run routes we noticed about 100 small birds, dead, piled up against a 1/4 mile long chain link fence. We had some really really bad weather recently (11" of rain in an hour over one small part of the island), and it looks like they got caught in a bad gust which blew them into the fence. Now I am genuinely concerned about this rash of animal deaths in large numbers, but I wrestle with finding the balance. This has been a really bad weather year in the sense that some alarming extremes cropped up in unprecedented manners. Something tells me alot more has happened that just isn't gonna get reported since it occurred in a remote area. But I'm not ready to go to space aliens, military spraying of poisonous gasses on the california-mexico border, or the one I heard yesterday that DOD is testing a virus that targets skin color since all the birds that were killed in one incident were black.

But have you noticed how "cold weather" is being timidly thrown out there as a possible culprit in many of these events? I say timidly because the news agencies that are reporting have been known to be global warming defenders.

[Shu]

Bah!!!! You doubt global warming, How dare you

I think weather has more to do it with it than anything else. Cold weather snap and things die. It happens.

I like to blame anything I can on the government, unfortunately 99% of it isn't the government fault.

I think man has been interested in climate for about 300 years. Out of mans time on earth that is less than .0001% of his time. How can we possibly know what happened x millions or billions years ago. Core samples yes and no. There just isn't to much real data for me to jump on the global warming band wagon. I live in the dessert, heck yes it is warm from April to October. So we are getting ready for that yearly global warming session again. 

One day I too will wear a tin foil hat to protect me from , them, they and those.

[MGMorden]

They kind of look like they froze to death............

Lol that the exact thing I thought when I looked at that pic .

[Spirithawk]

Anyone remember the cattle mutilations of the late 70's?

The OP's weren't mutilated but I just had to throw that out.

+1 Spikehorn

Yep, I was a deputy sheriff and helped investigate many around the area of Louisianna Missouri in the mid 70's. Found one just half a mile from my house. There was a lot of wierd stuff going on. We gave our reports to the Feds and never heard another thing about the goings on.

[BUGEYE]

I heard that a virus got into the herd.

[SHOOTALL]

or the one I heard yesterday that DOD is testing a virus that targets skin color since all the birds that were killed in one incident were black.

 Since the feathers are black like hair on ones head and the skin on many /most birds is ash or white color could one consider this but one more example of military inteligence ? 

Sorry couldn't resist.

[skifastchad]

Toxicology tests show that the cows' feed contained moldy sweet potatoes.  The mycotoxin from the mold killed the cows.