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<td colspan="2"><font size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Weird Science
</font></b><font color="#FFFFFF">- </font><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#FFFFFF">30
Cattle Deaths Create a Mystery By Fritz Thompson</font></font><b><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>
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<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">The
mysterious deaths of 30 head of cattle in a Chaves County corral
so far have left investigators with only one piece of information:
Whatever killed the cattle is not contagious. Otherwise, nobody
knows why Marcelo Macias' animals dropped dead between dusk and
dawn one night last week. The cattle weren't shot, stabbed, attacked
by a mountain lion, or struck by lightning, a state veterinarian
said. He won't rule out a bad weed in the hay bale, but he said
he isn't prepared to say for certain what the culprit could be.</font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">"There
are three or four things that can develop in a bale of hay, and
it can kill a cow overnight," said assistant state veterinarian
Thurman Reitz. "It could be a concentration of nitrates, cyanide
from a plant, botulism from a dead rodent or some other kind of
toxic weed, but I haven't concluded that any of those things are
what caused the cattle to die." He hopes lab tests will provide
more definite answers. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">Macias
said the carcasses didn't show signs of mutilation. There were no
incisions that appeared as though made by a scalpel, he said. The
dead animals were in a corral with about 35 other cattle that weren't
affected. All the animals had been given the same food and water.
None has died in the last seven days. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">Macias,
66, has been a rancher for 43 years. His place is at the northeastern
edge of Roswell. "I don't know what killed my cattle," he said Wednesday.
"I checked their water last Wednesday night (Oct. 18) and they were
fine. The next morning I brought a tractor to clean the corrals
and I found them dead." "He's real heartbroken about this," said
his wife, Lucy, in a telephone conversation. Macias said he lost
23 pregnant cows, three bulls and four 350-pound calves. He put
his total loss at more than $40,000. The cattle weren't insured.
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<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">"These
were real good cows," he said. "I told my wife we were going to
make some money this year, fix up the house. Now, I don't know.
... "It's been dry here all summer," he said. "It was bad. But this
is real bad." Reitz said the New Mexico Livestock Board was at first
concerned about the possibility of an infectious disease. "But we
have ruled that out," he said. "There's no contagious disease danger
to other livestock around there, or to his cattle. "But if I was
him," Reitz said, "I wouldn't use any more of that hay." Macias
said he has continued to use the hay for his cattle. It also has
been consumed by some of his sheep and horses with no apparent ill
effect. Reitz said it is possible that the cause of the deaths might
never be known. Tissue samples and feed samples are undergoing laboratory
tests, Reitz said. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">The
cattle had been dead too long to obtain serum samples, Reitz said.
"We're trying to do a diagnosis on some pretty slim stuff," he said.
The samples were taken during an on-site inspection conducted by
Roswell veterinarian Leonard Blach. He wasn't available for comment
Wednesday.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font color="#FFFFFF">It
flew US Airways, and the company, embarrassed, says it's never going
to let it happen again. On Oct. 17, the six-hour flight from Philadelphia
to Seattle carried 201 passengers - 200 people and one hog, which
sat on the floor in the first row of first class. ``We can confirm
that the pig traveled, and we can confirm that it will never happen
again,'' US Airways spokesman David Castelveter said. ``Let me stress
that. It will never happen again.'' </font></font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">Sources
familiar with the incident told the Philadelphia Daily News in Friday's
editions that the hog's owners convinced the airline that the animal
was a ``therapeutic companion pet,'' like a guide dog for the blind.
The pig was traveling with two unidentified women who claimed they
had a doctor's note that allowed them to fly with the animal, according
to an internal airline report. US Airways and Federal Aviation Administration
rules allow passengers to fly with service animals.</font></p>
<p><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF">The
animal became unruly as the plane taxied toward the Seattle terminal,
the report said, running through the jet, squealing and trying to
get into the cockpit. ``Many people on board the aircraft were quite
upset that there was a large uncontrollable pig on board, especially
those in the first-class cabin,'' the incident report stated. The
pig made it off the plane but continued squealing inside the Seattle
airport. FAA officials in Seattle said they were unfamiliar with
the incident but promised to investigate. </font></p>
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