Grazier condemns ‘callous’ and ‘pathetic’ shooting of cows by illegal hunters, police investigating

A Queensland grazier says the “callous” actions of illegal hunters who shot dead and partially butchered two of his prized cows on his property are nothing short of “pathetic”.

Grazier Kevin O’Brien said he had raised one of the slain cows, which was pregnant, from a young heifer after he had been forced to sell its mother at the height of the drought.

“She was the cream of the crop, this particular one,” he said.

Mr O’Brien runs cattle on a 186-hectare property at Crossdale, near Esk, in the Somerset region,…