The post below about the 5 deer found triggered remembering a find a couple of years back.
My son was checking the page wire fence lines on our Bison ranch one day in high summer,he came across a frontleg that looked like off a limousin cow,cleanly cut of below the knee and still floppy like it was a fresh kill.No appearent teethmarks or chewing on it.The nearest neighbor is 5 mls as the crow flies.
Phoning around to all neighbors did not result in any having recently butchered a brown legged cow.
a week or so later i happen to find a similair frontleg like the first one along the fence,still fresh and floppy and no marks on it,clean cut as well.no bad smell either.Neither did the first one.
only this one was a black and white holstein leg. There is no dairy farm within 40 mls as the crow flies, and upon inquiry again no one in the entire neighbor hood owned or missed a holstein cow or a black and white legged cow or had butchered one like it.Neither did the distant single dairy farm.
How the heck did these legs showed up where they did.The spots where they where found where along a 2 ml stretch of fence that borders a huge forrest reserve with fairly big rivers surrounding it,and no residents either.
You go figure. It still baffles me to this day.
I dont think coyotes,wolves or bears would carry offal that far and dropping it just like that without gnawing it.
My son was checking the page wire fence lines on our Bison ranch one day in high summer,he came across a frontleg that looked like off a limousin cow,cleanly cut of below the knee and still floppy like it was a fresh kill.No appearent teethmarks or chewing on it.The nearest neighbor is 5 mls as the crow flies.
Phoning around to all neighbors did not result in any having recently butchered a brown legged cow.
a week or so later i happen to find a similair frontleg like the first one along the fence,still fresh and floppy and no marks on it,clean cut as well.no bad smell either.Neither did the first one.
only this one was a black and white holstein leg. There is no dairy farm within 40 mls as the crow flies, and upon inquiry again no one in the entire neighbor hood owned or missed a holstein cow or a black and white legged cow or had butchered one like it.Neither did the distant single dairy farm.
How the heck did these legs showed up where they did.The spots where they where found where along a 2 ml stretch of fence that borders a huge forrest reserve with fairly big rivers surrounding it,and no residents either.
You go figure. It still baffles me to this day.
I dont think coyotes,wolves or bears would carry offal that far and dropping it just like that without gnawing it.