Here in, Jones, Dubuque, and Delaware counties(Iowa), we lost a lot of cattle Tuesday afternoon. The Temperatures where in the high 90s, 80% humidity, and the wind died. Average wind all day was 3.5 mph with the top wind 8 mph.
One real close neighbor lost 49 #1000 steers. HE is a great livestock man, good pens, shade, plenty of water. He said that right at 3 pm he saw two steers go do. He went to get the skid steer to get them out of the pen. When he came back he said they where dropping like domino"s. He had water misting over head. He called the fire department and they flooded the concrete with water. Some of the cattle that had dropped cooled off and got up. Still a big lose when you only had 350 head on the farm.
The Delaware sale barn at Manchester had the County fair cattle from last weeks steer sale still there to be re-sold on the regular Tuesday sale. Remember these steers had long hair and where used to being babied. They lost 100 head by the days end.
Several other farmers lost double digit numbers too. Local rendering plant had 350 calls by 9 am Wednesday morning.
State vet came and posted several of the cattle. Said that the cattle had internal temperatures of 110 degrees plus and that shut down the internal organs.
I have 680 steers on feed right now. 350 of them are about ready for market, #1200 plus pounds. They all have shade. I also have a airplane prop that I have mounted on a trailer(caged all around it) that is PTO driven. Kind of like a stationary air boat. I put it at one end of my loafing shed with a JD 4020 on it with 1000 rpm PTO. That tractor was blowing smoke all day Tuesday and Wednesday. That old prop can really move a lot of air. It has saved me many cattle since I built it in 1978. You could not buy real big fans then.
There is a Government program that was part of the disaster Farm bill of 2008. It pays 75% if they die from weather caused problems. You have thirty days to notify the local Farm Services Office. I just read this on the Cattleman"s web site. I don"t know the details of it other than what was in the article.
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