Indian farmer catches a calf eating chickens
 

POSTED: 0547 GMT (1347 HKT), March 9, 2007
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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 1-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 145 miles southwest of Calcutta, the state capital.

The farmer got up 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."

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I see a new Chik-Fil-A ad in the works...

chicken fried steak?

I'm telling ya all, it is a conspriacy by McDonnalds. :D

Tell you what, cows evolving into predators kinda' gives me tha' heebie-jeebies.
Plus... that is some NASTY cud!

This is what we get for feeding them other cows.

Bad 70's horror movie coming up.
Wake-up and all the cows are carnivores, walked through their pens and all pissed-off, most everyone in town has been eaten, you and three wacky characters are hold-up in the diner, the camera pans across the big window, large shadows move...

Anyone remember the Tick's Man Eating Cow?

Pretty hard to eat raw chickens with no upper teeth, gotta work at it.
We'll see more of it though, it's started.:eek:

Carnivorous or not, you don't want to fuck with cows. I stopped at a roadside store in Nebraska once, next to a fenced-off field filled with grazing cows and their calves. There was a curious little calf standing near the fence, so I slowly approached, drawn to his cuteness...and suddenly, his gigantic mom broke out and charged over, extremely pissed off! I'd been near cows by themselves, and calves by themselves, but not the cow/calf combination before. I wholeheartedly recommend avoiding that situation.

You must look like a veal eater, Blue. :lol:

I saw a movie, I wish I could remember the name, where "mad cows" attacked people and turned them into carnivorous zombies.

The end of the world is nigh.

Too bad Gary Larson is retired...I think he predicted this.

Cows with guns...who flung dung...cows well hung.

And next, it's chickens in choppers!

There's a full moon in the pasture tonight
Hangs like a fine and polished pearl, so pure and white
The average guy finds so much beauty in its light
But I'm a werecow
Moo moo moo
I'm a werecow
Now I'm stuck

It seemed so innocent when Bossy bit my hand
I was just tryin' to milk her, but I didn't understand
That Bossy really was Pierre the handyman
He was a werecow
Moo moo moo
He was a werecow
Moo moo moo

By day I work the fields here on my daddy's farm
By night I roam the neighbor's place in search of corn
Chewin' my cud and tryin' to keep my udders warm
I'm a werecow
Moo moo moo
I'm a werecow
Moo moo moo

The mornings after always make my family wince
I know it's hard for them to try and make some sense
Of finding me naked with my head stuck through a fence
I'm a werecow
Moo moo moo
I'm a werecow
Moo moo moo
I'm a werecow

I found this gypsy who said she could break the curse
Said that she sympathized with me but she'd seen worse
Said Lon Chaney, Jr. used to be a client of hers
She was pretty, wore a real nice dress
Shoot, I was impressed!

She asked for money and I gladly said I'd pay
But when she said a million bucks, I swear I was enraged
So I bit that gypsy, and now, well, we're engaged
She's a werecow
Moo moo moo
She's a werecow
Moo moo moo
She's a werecow
And a pretty little heifer she is too

These days the sheriff lets me spend the night in jail
So I won't hurt nobody when the moon turns pale
Or end up some entree at the local Steak & Ale
I'm a werecow
Moo moo moo
I'm a werecow

Somebody, somebody call a vet
Yeah, I think I'm gettin' a touch of milk fever
I'm a werecow!

That's great Els, hadn't seen that before.:thumb:

Darn you! You beat me to it!

And what happens when the cow finds out that pork is the other white meat?

And if you can cook a turkey, duck and chicken together and call it a "turducken", do you call a cow, pig, chicken combo a cowpiken?

Wow, you'd need something really big to cook that in...like an old water tank.

I'm hungry.

Most of these professional BBQ outfits around here could handle it. Don't think I could afford it though.:yelgreedy

:cool: was thinking the same when I saw this on cnn...

perhaps kfc will start marketing to cows... :p

They need to do something. "Sweet Home Alabama" just doesn't make a lot of sense.

wouldn't that be cowpikenkenkenkenkenkenkenpikenkenkenkenkenken? or veapotbellypikenkenken?

Cows produce beef, chickens produce chicken. Yet they are both vegetarians!? I think not anymore...

Chickens will eat worms, worms are meat. ;)

If chickens are hungry they will eat just about anything.

Cattle are not very discriminate with their food intake. I've seen firsthand or heard secondhand from my siblings some of our pet cow's more unusual dietary tastes, like plastic, pickles, various lollies, live frogs and beef-flavoured dry dog food. At various times, I think we all played the same game of "let's see if the cow will eat it".

This lack of discrimination explains why cattle farmers would feed cattle ground up bits of other animals (until mad cow disease curtailed that practice) and why this Indian cow went for chicken-flavoured munchies.

I agree, with the exception of never seeing one behave in a predatory fashion.

If you do watch, though, notice how they've tied the chick down to the ground with a piece of string.

Sick people. Wouldn't be surprised if they rolled it in clover too.

That calf looks like it's been trained to eat chickens. I wonder if it also does addition, mooing the correct number of times when presented with a problem?

I'd guess it's now a tourist attraction, so they do what they can to encourage it while the audience is there,

Cow's gotta eat.

Ew, that's disgusting! Doesn't that cow know he's supposed to be eating chicken shit, like the cows over here?