Our old vey said he had never seen a calf sick with blackleg, dead.
We sure see 'em down here, Richard.
When I was in high school, one summer I worked for a rancher that ran 800 of steers on summer graze near Pagosa Springs, CO.
The steers arrived and were turned loose.
About 2 weeks later they started dying. Several of them. Vet came out and necropsied them and said it was blackleg.
The steers were supposed to have been vaccinated against it from the cattle buyer they came from, but weren't.
Spent the rest of the summer gathering and vaccinating for blackleg. (I got vaccinated a couple of times...)
Those we couldn't gather were ran down, roped, and vaccinated in the pasture.
It was an adventure.
