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PHOTO: Cattle stranded as the Mersey River floods. (Supplied: Ebony Bannister)
Thousands of animals have perished in the Tasmanian floods, but there’s also been hundreds survive.
Stories are emerging of cattle that were swept up in floodwaters, and have travelled more than 20 kilometres, now being returned to their owners.
Ebony Bannister from Roberts Livestock has spent the last week trying to find the owners of displaced stock.
Ms Bannister said the number of dead cattle would far exceed the number that had survived. However she said about 200 cattle had been returned alive in the Merseylea and Mole Creek area of north-west Tasmania.
“At this stage we’re saying ‘lost’, because there is more cattle turning up, but I would say from a cattle point of view from Merseylea and Mole Creek, we could hit the 2000 [dead] mark,” she said.
For some individual farmers their stock losses are in the hundreds.
The Tasmanian Government has been providing help for flood-affected farmers to dispose of their dead livestock.
Courtesy of abc.net.au
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