Farmer stunned to find 10 cows killed by lightning in scene like ‘war zone’
VERNON BRIDGE, P.E.I. — Ten P.E.I. cows have been killed by a lightning strike so powerful it appears to have tossed some of the animals over a fence.
Veteran farmer Blair Henry said the grim discovery of six cows and four calves was difficult — he thought fondly of the animals he considered pets, having raised some of them for the last decade.
“It was hard to believe that lightning could kill that many,” he said from his farm Friday. “It’s the animals themselves, you know, they’re like your pets.”
Henry had wandered out to the field in Vernon Bridge after he spotted an unusual cluster of his beef cattle off on its own sometime after 6 a.m. last Saturday.