Exploding bulls

These things happen. Fallen lines spark cattle combustion:

Seven bulls ‘exploded’ and caught fire after powerlines fell on a Dairy Flat farm, north of Auckland, on Tuesday.

Dave Taylor, who leases the 60.7 hectare Wilks Rd farm, says he lost a $2000 friesian breeding bull and six other meat bulls of the same breed worth about $500 each.

"I got a call from my dad, who was driving along the motorway, to say cows were exploding. I found seven dead and on fire in the paddock," he says.

A hedgehog was also killed.

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