Ten cows at a UW-Madison research farm died earlier this year after starving through two cold winter months, university officials said Monday.
The beef cattle were fed a diet of poor-quality hay and corn silage in late December and January that apparently left them thin and malnourished, said Ben Miller, assistant dean at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Following the discovery of the cattle, the technician charged with caring for them has quit his post and a professor has been disciplined, he said.
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