Thread: 100 Dairy cows Pb poisioned at Southland clay club

It sounds like the lead ingestion is coincidental. But what I read on the 'net indicates that cattle can and do die from ingesting lead. We humans can swallow the same lead and nothing happens. To get lead in our system we need to swallow lead salts and oxides or breath in the lead oxide and salt dust. Ask me how I know! Cattle and dogs have a different digestive system to us (dogs can digest bones - we can't even swallow bones). And for some strange reason cattle eat car batteries! Why on earth would they do that?