A few Colorado Ranchers remained desperate when they did a routine control of their cows, only to discover that three had fallen dead. Eleven more had died by that afternoon. The death toll hit fifteen the next morning.
That was at the beginning of May. The grieving couple is still desperately looking for answers.
In the beginning, Kerri Higgs and her husband thought that their cows may have been exposed to harmful weeds that are wild plants that can be harmful to crops and wild animals.
Kerri Higgs told Cowboy State Daily That, although sad, it is not uncommon to lose a cow or two in this way: “We would deal with it, because that is what happens sometimes.”
But after more than a dozen cows had passed on May 8, they knew that there had to be another answer.
The family noted that the majority of losses had been First heifers; Female cows that experienced their first pregnancy. The others were an ox and a yearling.
While the family saw their herd suffer, some died alone and others were put out of their misery from the husband of Higgs. She noticed that there was a special attack and fell down while her eyes rolled to the back of her head.
“It’s just the strangest. My husband has been a cowboy all his life and he said he has never seen anything like that, “said the resident of Fremont County.
A total of 15 cows on a Colorado ranch from Kerri Higgs and her husband had mysteriously died
Despite the loss, Kerri Higgs (photo) and her family decided to keep looking for answers and to continue to farm
One of the cows of Higgs is on the ground after an attack
After the death of their herd, the couple turned to a local veterinarian and the sheriff of the province. In the first instance, the vet made the diagnosis of the brain brain, pointing to sulfate poisoning of a nearby oil source. But from May 22, tests of the water descends and rain puddles came back negatively.
Higgs turned to the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) because she saw a smell from the oil cushion. The ECMC sent drones over the building to check for gas leaks around the affected cows, but she still has to see the results.
Higgs is also interested in Send the cows To get necropsia an even more thorough evaluation of what may have happened.
Strangely enough, cows that were kept away from a meadow in another kilometers were completely unaffected, which means that Higgs believes that the cause was the environment.
“Now we just have to know where it came from,” she wrote on her Gofundme Page to raise money to cover the financial loss of so many cows that die everywhere in one day, “probably the country we have rented.”
Higgs is interested in sending the cows for necropsia to get an even more thorough evaluation of what may have happened
Not only their deaths caused heartache, but the family estimates an immediate loss of $ 50,000 to $ 70,000, excluding veterinary accounts that they have already had to pay.
Higgs said they expected to have those cows each for 12 years. “In my opinion we are a quarter of a million dollars because of all the calves that we will never have of them,” she said. To finish it, 13 of the remaining 15 cows lost their mothers to sudden dead.
Despite the loss, Higgs and her family have decided to keep looking for answers and to keep farming.
Dailymail.com put his hand out to Higgs for comment.
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