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Legs hacked off pregnant cow in Northland

Danica MacLean
By Danica MacLean
Multimedia Journalist, Newstalk ZB·Northern Advocate·
17 Sep, 2017 06:00 PM2 mins to read

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An Angus heifer like this was slaughtered and taken from a Northland farm. Photo/File

An Angus heifer like this was slaughtered and taken from a Northland farm. Photo/File

Police in Kaipara are investigating the slaughter and theft of two cows - one where the legs were hacked off a pregnant cow and its body left in a paddock.

While it is unclear if the two incidents were linked, both are believed to have happened last Wednesday night.

At a Waiotira farm, 32km south west of Whangarei, just a piles of internal organs remained.

One of the farm's owners said the two-year-old Angus heifer was taken from a paddock close to the road.

She said it happened around midnight when the cattle were sleeping by the fence. She thought the heifer, which was in a paddock with about 25 to 30 other animals, had probably been shot.

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The owner said there were some drag marks in the grass where it looked as if the animal had been dragged through the gate and loaded into a vehicle.

She thought it would have taken four people to lift the carcass.

The owner said the cow would have been worth around $1000 and was very good meat.

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She said it had been recently drenched so wasn't currently fit for human consumption.

Further north, police confirmed a second cow, around five years old, had been killed in Waipoua River Rd sometime between 10pm on September 13 and 6am the next day.

A Facebook post contained graphic pictures of the slaughtered cow with its legs hacked off and the body left in a paddock.

The post said the cow was pregnant and due to calve anytime and "the calf inside her was killed viciously as well".

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