I saw a lot of dead Cattle in SD today. How did snow kill them?

The cows that didn't freeze to death get to look forward to being slaughtered. I think I would stop eating meat if I didn't like whoppers so much.

 

Just sad! No humor what so EVER! Tsk tsk tsk

 

This is just one of those questions that says insert joke here

 

maybe burger king will bring back the 59 cents whopper

 

All I can say is WOW!, These Ranchers are going to feel it hard, The Gov. being shut down doesn't help, this is but a small percentage of the total cattle count in the U.S. at this time, Yes they will be impacted but not to badly. I don't think this will cause even a bump in the price of beef. We will have to see if thereis a fund that these Ranchers can get some help from. Good Luck.

 

I don't think you need a CDL or have to be an adult to read this forum. Besides, you can probably convey whatever message you want without cussing.

 

lol I got a laugh out of this one.

 

I grew up in Southwest Kansas and we ran 2 feedlots with a combined capacity of 120,000 head as well as running calves on wheat pasture over the winter. In a hard driving wind blown blizzard the cattle will walk head into the storm and nothing short of steel pipe fence will slow them down. They'll pack up into a fence and when enough keep pushing the fence will drop and off they go onto the next fence.

As for death's in a blizzard, most of the time it's due to inhalation of the snow and a build-up in their nasal cavities till they suffocate or if the snow is fine enough they can actually get it into their lungs and basically drown. As for being buried by snow drifts, I personally have never seen that happen, they can and will push on through. Not saying it won't or can't happen, I've just never seen it.

The cattle you seen all over in SD were more than likely beef cattle not dairy cattle. There will be no affect on dairy prices and as far as beef prices, the affect on that will be so small that the end consumer will never see it. Even if there was 2000 head lost in that storm that's 1/3 the daily production at one single processor outside of Garden City, KS. Certainly not going to cause a shortage at the grocery store or a price hike. The ranchers who lost them will be hurt but I know of no rancher who doesn't have insurance on his heard just like a trucking company has insurance on it's trucks and cargo. It was a loss due to a storm and the insurance companies will compensate the ranchers who lost the cattle.

Now someone had said something about salvaging the meat, you wouldn't be able to eat it. The acid or whatever it is that pulses through the blood stream and into the muscle when under that severe of stress would make the meat stink and taste worse. In all likelihood there's a byproducts company that will pick them up and they will be used in things like pet food and other products not intended for human consumption.

Yes it's a tragedy that so many cattle were lost but be rest assured they will be used and not just let go to waste.

 

One way or another, they'll end up using everything but the mooo.