100s Of Dead Cattle Hit By Kansas Heatwave

[dmlfarmer]

[ATTACH]10685[/ATTACH].

To answer Hensley"s question - God maybe? Seeing as the video posted and which Jazz shared was taken in the Country of Georgia (not Idaho) and not this week but on August 9, 2021 and the deaths were the result of lightening. Here is the actual video taken by the farmer and the freeze frame Jazz shared is identical if you freeze the actual video at the 5 second mark.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2941506409405331

The Idaho link has been fact checked by many and all agree the shared video not Idaho. Thanks for sharing more fake news garbage Jazz

[Landdownunder]

Not a shot at jazz more social media.

I check check and double some things I post.

[Guest]

This actually occurred. Man's fault

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/world/australia/qatar-sheep-deaths.html

Many more suffer but don't die.

[Blaithin]

My niece and her husband farm in Queensland. I believe their cattle are an angus Brahma cross. My son has been there. He said it is much different than here because the land area is so vast. Very little human contact with the cattle. Brahma genetics are required to cope with the heat.

I spent 9 months in northern Queensland. Both in the rainforest and way up in Far North Qld. They are both strange areas compared to here. Mind boggling really. Hard to take in some of the management things they do.

Rainforest was predominantly dairy area, familiar breeds to here but issues with animals moulding due to humidity 🤯 Different management strategies and definitely couldn’t take animals from here and stick them there and expect good production.

Then the station up by Laura was dry and hot hot hot. Full Brahman herd up there. Oodles of land, thousands of head, find them by plane, move them early morning and late evening, watch out for crocodiles, type area.

Coincidentally neither of these areas are known for having cattle on full feed. Forage rations there. Couldn't imagine why…

I’m sure people here would also say that because it doesn’t happen in southern Saskatchewan, it’s a conspiracy that farms can lose large numbers of head to crocodiles as well. Life closer to the equator and tropics isn’t that much different compared to life thousands of miles from there after all.

Not surprisingly, people from these hot areas can’t conceive of things we deal with due to the cold. For example an Aussie friend asked me what breed of cattle it was that had no ears. Talk to them and they’d probably argue that a cow isn’t capable of freezing body parts off.