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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 419667" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>These folks can't scare me, Katy. ;-) </p><p></p><p>First off, yes there's shade, temps that week got to around, and a bit above 35 C (a few days it reached 39 C), high humidity (threat of thunderstorms pretty much every day), and cattle are out grazing and/or laying in the shade in the hot part of the day.</p><p></p><p>See, that's why I put a question mark after heat stress. It could be that, heat shock, or a sudden onset pneumonia. But DEFINATELY not Anthrax, that I'm positively sure about. </p><p></p><p>These steers are over 16 months old, and I'm sure that they'd've been vaccinated against blackleg when they were calves before they were sold to this farm, but since they were bought for us through private treaty from an auction, and with that there's no record of who or where they came from. So being folks who raise stockers that's a risk we have to take.</p><p></p><p>Okay, now for the "3" thing. The first one we lost to pnuemonia in December. Second one, viral pnuemonia between the end of April and the beginning of May. And this is the third death. Three deaths out of 82 cattle. Three is the most we usually have that many every year anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 419667, member: 3739"] These folks can't scare me, Katy. ;-) First off, yes there's shade, temps that week got to around, and a bit above 35 C (a few days it reached 39 C), high humidity (threat of thunderstorms pretty much every day), and cattle are out grazing and/or laying in the shade in the hot part of the day. See, that's why I put a question mark after heat stress. It could be that, heat shock, or a sudden onset pneumonia. But DEFINATELY not Anthrax, that I'm positively sure about. These steers are over 16 months old, and I'm sure that they'd've been vaccinated against blackleg when they were calves before they were sold to this farm, but since they were bought for us through private treaty from an auction, and with that there's no record of who or where they came from. So being folks who raise stockers that's a risk we have to take. Okay, now for the "3" thing. The first one we lost to pnuemonia in December. Second one, viral pnuemonia between the end of April and the beginning of May. And this is the third death. Three deaths out of 82 cattle. Three is the most we usually have that many every year anyway. [/QUOTE]
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