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Lead poisoning

  • 03-05-2012 6:24pm
    #1
    Ltrvale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭


    Had an uncle who has three heifers very bad with lead poisoning, he found a battery thrown over ditch and the heifers were after licking it. so just a word of warning have a look round ur ditches.


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  • #2
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Bradfield wrote: »
    Had an uncle who has three heifers very bad with lead poisoning, he found a battery thrown over ditch and the heifers were after licking it. so just a word of warning have a look round ur ditches.

    Thats bad news , I always check land around the roads before i put cattle in on it . Too risky not to


  • #3
    pakalasa
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    Does the battery have to be broken for them to get at the lead, I wonder.


  • #4
    Ltrvale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Ltrvale


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Does the battery have to be broken for them to get at the lead, I wonder.
    i'm not sure think the poles might be lead too


  • #5
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Does the battery have to be broken for them to get at the lead, I wonder.

    Im not sure but there was a terrible case beside me about 15 years ago , A neighbour or mine had land rented with no water (river or piped) , so he was giving the cattle water out of an old tank on a tractor trailer , that he would bring back to the yard and fill every week or so .
    Some bad bast##d threw two batteries into the tank . He lost 8 cattle and more very sick


  • #6
    LostCovey
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    Bradfield wrote: »
    i'm not sure think the poles might be lead too

    The poles probably are made of lead, but the really dangerous stuff is the powdery/pasty stuff on the wire grids inside the battery. I think the battery has to be broken to be dangerous, but all that has to happen is somebody drive over it or clip it with a harvester.

    LC


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  • #7
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    The reason I asked about the battery is, I have an old tractor battery that I use with the portable electric fencer. I do my best to keep it away from the cattle but you know yerself.


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