Pregnant cow is killed on Maui

Gerard Cambra said he doesn’t know who killed his prize-winning cow which was pregnant but he suspects it’s someone who lives in the Upcountry Maui area — and that it’s not the first time something like this has happened.

Another one of Cambra’s cows was killed about a year and a half ago in a sugar cane field in Pulehu. The culprit was never found.

“It’s pretty sad,” he said today.

Cambra, a part-time rancher who also works as a welding supervisor at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., said ranchers have been talking with police about incidents of stolen livestock on Maui, including herds of goats Upcountry.

In the most recent theft, Cambra said, his cow was in a pasture near Hookipa Beach Park and appears to have been shot with a shotgun before its four legs were cut from its body. The rest of the cow was left in the field.

The legs were de-boned and the bones were found about 10 miles away along Kealaloa Avenue near the Haleakala Ranch headquarters in Makawao, he said.

Cambra said the cow, a Limousin heifer who was six months’ pregnant, had won a blue ribbon at the Maui County Fair in 2011.