My thought on this situation.
How many years have we been shoving fats into tight confinement? 100? 150?
How many times have those pens been exposed to similar weather conditions? 1000s upon 1000s.
If losses such as this have occurred in the past, solely due to summer temps, I would sure like to hear about it.
Now, if in fact this was a 2000 count loss from a 200,000 head operation, that is a different situation.
The story read as if it was a 100% loss.
And this is exactly the reason I'm not buying losing 2,000 head all one night.
I’m not either. Worked cows plenty of times when it’s been 110 degrees. And we only had black cows. Another words. Registered Black Angus. We never lost a cow to heat stress In my lifetime
Only loss one old cow to cold back in 1983. And she was old enough she was looking for a place to die. The only other cows we ever loss were cows that were calving, stillborn calf’s, or newborn calf’s.
Either the water or feed was toxic, would be my best guess.
