Strong winds may have picked up a bull and thrown it into a different pasture, weather officials say

JEFF DAVIS COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - Most people have heard the expression “when pigs fly,” but what about when cows fly?

That odd scenario is what may have happened when one of Charles Marchant’s cattle was found in a different pasture last Tuesday.

WTOC reports straight line winds damaged a barn at his farm in Hazlehurst.

“The front half of the barn’s gone and the back half of the barn’s gone,” Marchant said.

Water had also been sucked up from a trough “like a water spout” and the container itself was found in a treeline.

Possibly the strangest thing of all was the bull that had been moved from one enclosure to another.

“We had one bull wind up in this pen where the horses were at, and we couldn’t figure out how he got there because the gates were shut,” Marchant said.

After the storm was over, the National Weather Service came to the farm. In preliminary reports the organization said that the storm had “literally lifted a bull from one pasture to another.”

“They said a tornado was a very strong piece of God’s work, and it’s done a lot of things worse than picking up a bull,” Marchant said.

Marchant said an insurance surveyor claimed to have seen a bull jump over one of the fences a few days later. However, Marchant said the fences are pretty tall and he believes it’s unlikely that’s what happened.

“I don’t understand it either,” he said.

The National Weather Service said there’s no way to know for sure what exactly happened, but Marchant said the legend of the bull is already growing around Hazlehurst.

“People want to know about the bull. Everybody comes by, ‘Where’s the bull, where’s the bull? Or is that bull manure you’re talking about?’ I said, ‘I’m just talking about what I know,’” Marchant said.