A point not widely reported following the deaths of about 150 Australian cattle on a livestock shipment to Indonesia last week is that about 50 cattle from the same property also died at the same time in the pre-export yards near Darwin.
A file image of the Brahman Express loading cattle in Darwin. Image courtesy of NTLEA.
Clinical signs are pointing to the likelihood that cattle died from botulism, having ingested the toxin at some point in the previous two weeks, possibly from contaminated feed or water or chewing on bones.
The simultaneous deaths of cattle from the same property on the…
