Calves' ears fall off because of the cold in the USA: how farmers save animals
'19.02.2021'
Source: People
Ranchers in the Great Plains are struggling to conserve their livestock as unprecedented cold temperatures over the past week have been disastrous. People.
Bloomberg reports that in Montana, calves' ears are glued to their heads to prevent them from falling off due to frostbite.
In other states, such as Oklahoma and Arkansas, newborn calves freeze to death, although ranchers are desperate to save them with tights to warm their heads, even taking the most vulnerable animals into their cars and homes.
“Right now it's about survival of the fittest,” Tyler Beaver, founder of brokerage Beaf Cattle Co., told Bloomberg. in Arkansas. “You need to collect a lot of hay every day to keep the cows warm and not freeze to death.”
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Cattle are not the only domestic animal on the brink of survival in the ongoing sub-zero temperatures.
Countless broiler houses where chickens are raised are de-energized, and some have even collapsed due to layers of snow and ice, according to Bloomberg.
Farmers said other solutions, including hay for heat and food, are failing due to diesel trucks that cannot deliver goods in icy conditions.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US Department of Agriculture offer assistance to farmers and ranchers, including emergency assistance to animals and financial support for those who raise them.
On Thursday, February 18, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned residents, millions of whom do not have clean drinking water and / or electricity, to prepare for freezing temperatures (below -17,7 Celsius) that will persist at least over the weekend ...
“We haven’t gotten out of it yet, but we’re closer to leaving the problem behind,” he said. "We will not stop until your life returns to normal."
