\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo cows escaped from Eichner’s Farm in Wexford on Monday and were eventually captured Wednesday afternoon.They wandered onto Interstate 279 in Allegheny County on Wednesday morning, prompting PennDOT to restrict traffic in the area.Ron Eichner, owner of Eichner’s Farm, says the cows scaled a wire fence located at the front of the property.After posting on social media about his missing animals, a follower located the cows by using a drone and then called the owner of a deer farm.Eichner says that the person tranquilized the cows so they could be moved safely from the highway.”I always say we’re here to support the community,” says Eichner. “All we needed was community support, and it happened. Between the media and the community, we have a happy ending. Life continues.”The animals were spotted just north of Exit 8 (Camp Horne Road).A social media post by Eichner’s Farm in McCandless said two calves were missing and had been spotted near the interstate.Pennsylvania State Police said the cows were tranquilized by their owner and will be transported back to the farm.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Two cows escaped from Eichner’s Farm in Wexford on Monday and were eventually captured Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
They wandered onto Interstate 279 in Allegheny County on Wednesday morning, prompting PennDOT to restrict traffic in the area.<\/p>\n
Ron Eichner, owner of Eichner’s Farm, says the cows scaled a wire fence located at the front of the property.<\/p>\n
After posting on social media about his missing animals, a follower located the cows by using a drone and then called the owner of a deer farm.<\/p>\n
Eichner says that the person tranquilized the cows so they could be moved safely from the highway.<\/p>\n
“I always say we’re here to support the community,” says Eichner. “All we needed was community support, and it happened. Between the media and the community, we have a happy ending. Life continues.”<\/p>\n
The animals were spotted just north of Exit 8 (Camp Horne Road).<\/p>\n
A social media post by Eichner’s Farm<\/a> in McCandless said two calves were missing and had been spotted near the interstate.<\/p>\n Pennsylvania State Police said the cows were tranquilized by their owner and will be transported back to the farm.<\/p>\n \n\tThis content is imported from Facebook. Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two cows escaped from Eichner’s Farm in Wexford on Monday and were eventually captured Wednesday afternoon.They wandered onto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41515,4,450,29732,29734,172070,21658,71133,234075,234074,76301,451,28974,172071,18413,234076,3,3234,49105,115802,452,453,211892,14978],"class_list":["post-517920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-allegheny-county","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-calf","tag-calves","tag-camp-horne-road","tag-cow","tag-cows","tag-eichner","tag-eichners-farm","tag-farm","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-i-279","tag-interstate","tag-mccandless","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-social-medium-post","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-traffic-restriction","tag-wednesday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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