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PRO/AH/EDR> Salt poisoning – Canada: (SK) bovine

Poisoning -- CanadaFor decades, cattle farmers have sent their livestock to graze on the sprawling Shamrock pasture, about 80 km [about 50 mi] south of Chaplin in southwest Saskatchewan. Shamrock is where a 4th-generation cattle farmer, has for years raised nearly a quarter of his cattle. It's the same place [his] father sent his cattle.But some time between last Monday and Friday [3-7 Jul 2017], the cows and calves at Shamrock began to die. It's not known whether the deaths happened all at once Read more [...]