- Farmer finds six cows dead after severe thunderstorm Beaudesert, Queensland
- The four cows and two calves were electrocuted and pushed into a fence
- Derek Shirley found the six cows in a straight line lying their dead days later
Six cows were found in a eerie single line after they were hit by lightning after a severe storm hit south east Queensland.
Derek Shirley said his four of cows and two calves were found dead on their Beaudesert property a few days after the thunderstorm.
The cows were struck by lightening with such force some went through the wired fence and were ‘blown up’.
Four cows and two calves were found in a straight line on a farm in south-east Queensland after they were electrocuted
‘There was just a storm, it was a pretty severe storm, there were a few cracks of lightning and thunder and then there was one particularly loud one and that’s all we heard,’ he told the ABC.
Mr Shirley said his first thought was the cows had been poisoned ‘they just don’t lay in a line like that,’ he said.
The farmer found noticed the cow’s had no marks left on them after their death.
The push to the fence didn’t kill the six cows but the sheer force behind the strike of lightening would have caused multiple heart attacks.
Mr Shirley estimated the electrocuted cows were worth $10,000.
This isn’t isolated after 68 dairy cows were killed after they were struck by lightening in Dorrigo, New South Wales.
The force behind the lightning propelled their cows to the edge of the farm with some even through the fence