A marriage ring misplaced by farmer Johannes Brandhuber whereas feeding oats silage to cows on his farm in Simbach am Inn in southern Germany later turned up at a neighborhood butcher’s, the Passauer Neue Presse reported on Tuesday.
Brandhuber, 32 and married simply two years in the past, misplaced the ring one Sunday morning in November and thought it gone for good, solely to get a cellphone name 4 months later from Josef Steinleitner, a butcher in Vilshofen an der Donau, some 50 kilometres away.
His workers had discovered the ring within the rumen of a cow known as Herzal – Bavarian for “little coronary heart” – Steinleitner revealed.
“I’ve by no means seen one thing like this. It is distinctive,” Steinleitner, a butcher of greater than 40 years standing, stated. The discover had come about solely as a result of his 135-year-old household operation nonetheless slaughtered by hand, he stated.
“It is a fortunate coincidence to seek out such a small factor,” he stated. He famous that small steel gadgets, equivalent to screws might typically discover their manner into the rumen, a big compartment in a cow’s digestive system.
Brandhuber stated he had all however given up hope that the ring could be discovered, whereas his spouse had not. “She was more than happy,” he stated. On noticing the loss, he had searched the steady from high to backside, with out success, earlier than going out to purchase one other ring.
The unique ring was badly worn after months within the cow’s rumen, and the initials might solely simply be made out. The cow had been named for a heart-shaped white spot on its brow.
