Oh, so that's why my father called my uncle Harold "pecker-head".  I thought it was because he was bald!!

Why not?  The BLM had a directive out about 20 years ago on how to do this same thing with horses and other large animals.  There were two diagrams as to how much and where to place the explosives depending on whether you wanted large or small pieces of dead animal.  What's so special about cows?   The real question...more