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Indian farmer finds fame when he catches calf eating chicken
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Adventurer



Joined: 28 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:47 am    Post subject: Indian farmer finds fame when he catches calf eating chicken Reply with quote

Indian farmer finds fame when he catches calf eating chickens
Published: Thursday, March 8, 2007 | 11:42 PM ET
Canadian Press
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame - until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.

The farmer and his one-year-old calf have since become local celebrities, with the carnivorous cow appearing on television in India's West Bengal state and hundreds of people flocking to see them in Chandipur, a village 233 kilometres southwest of Calcutta, the state capital.

The farmer rose early to catch the culprit "and to his disbelief found that it was his calf which came out from the cow shed and was eating the chickens alive," Debjyoti Chatterjee, a local resident who filmed the calf eating a chicken, said Thursday.

The local veterinarian was at a loss for an explanation.

"I've never read or heard about cows turning carnivorous," said Mihir Tripathy.

"They eat grass and other vegetarian food but not fish or other non-vegetarian stuff."

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070308/K030819AU.html
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Wrench



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its called evolution or the will to survive.
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There would be a big market for chicken-fed cow.
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shakuhachi



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There already is chicken fed cow, and cow fed cow. It causes mad cow disease.
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VanIslander



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Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickens eating a live cow, now that'd be something!
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ED209



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How does a cow catch a chicken? Those things are fast? Or is it eating chicks?



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Ecumenist



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder how this fits in with the whole Hindu-gentle vegetarian bovine-Cow Days thing?

Also, without Youtube, this story lacks bite.
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Hollywoodaction



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are 3 possibilities: 1) that's one weird cow, 2)it's a scam, or 3) he saw the cow come out of the shed and then jumped to conclusions. I wouldn't take the guy's word for it until there is documented proof. His version of the events don't seem very plausible.
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jaganath69



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ecumenist wrote:
I wonder how this fits in with the whole Hindu-gentle vegetarian bovine-Cow Days thing?

Also, without Youtube, this story lacks bite.


Don't go telling Rteacher, his whole universe will come crashing down.
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caniff



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think everyone's too focused on the cow's chicken eating and not bothering to find out what other talents it might possess.
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

shakuhachi wrote:
There already is chicken fed cow, and cow fed cow. It causes mad cow disease.


I think mad cow comes from cows having the brains and spinal cords of other cows being mixed into their feed, not cows eating chickens.
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caniff



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
shakuhachi wrote:
There already is chicken fed cow, and cow fed cow. It causes mad cow disease.


I think mad cow comes from cows having the brains and spinal cords of other cows being mixed into their feed, not cows eating chickens.


I thought the same after seeing a documentary. I was led to believe that the brain and spinal cord matter of infected cows, when mixed in with beef, was what causes the cow-to-human transmission.

Never heard about chickens having anything to do with bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

p.s. I didn't google that. I just knew how to spell it.
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dogbert



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's amazing!

No wonder Hindus worship cows.
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caniff



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dogbert wrote:
That's amazing!

No wonder Hindus worship cows.


Seems like they are on to something.
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Hollywoodaction



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dogbert wrote:
That's amazing!

No wonder Hindus worship cows.


Nah, they were made to worship cows to prevent them from eating their cows in times of drought and then be unable to plow the fields after they got rain, thus sparking another famine.
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