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27. Don't feel sorry for these Dairy Operations.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Mon Jan 4, 2016, 02:27 PM

Jan 2016

Texas receives the highest milk price subsidy in the industry. As far as Cattle loss,you could see this coming as the herd sizes increased. Dairy cows can withstand a certain amount of cold,appears what happened was the wet snow that caused them to suffocate by blocking their nostrils. Common thing with cattle on open range during the winter months. Nostrils become covered and if you don't catch it in time it becomes fatal. And if you have 3-4 thousand head in loose housing,you have issues and their aren't people to break the ice off these animals.

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