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“These cows you see dead are worth between $2,500 and $3,000 apiece," Bowers said. “Financially, it’s a massive, massive burden on us.” Texas is the nation's top cattle producer.
NBC News shared a video on Thursday, February 28th of a herd of cattle stampeding in efforts to outrun the wildfire, and it's so sad to watch. The video is short and shows the confused and scared ...
The South Fork Dairy Farm is a dairy production facility located in Castro County, Texas about ten miles (16 km) south of the county seat Dimmitt.The county is the second largest dairy-producer in the United States, with more than 147,000,000 pounds (67,000,000 kg) of dairy being produced in February 2023, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. [1]
Some 18,000 cows were killed after a massive explosion and fire erupted at a dairy farm in West Texas, becoming the largest known single-incident death of cattle. On Monday, a blast rocked the ...
A steer. The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. [4] It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512. [5]
A captive bolt pistol (also known as a captive bolt gun, a cattle gun, a stunbolt gun, a bolt gun, a stun gun and a stunner) is a device used for the stunning of animals prior to slaughter. The goal of captive bolt stunning is to inflict a forceful strike on the forehead with the bolt in order to induce unconsciousness .
When Sean Pennington, a 56-year-old cattle farmer based near Canadian, Texas, first saw the flames approaching his ranch, his first concern wasn’t his home – it was his animals.
Until the discovery of countershading in the 1890s, protective coloration was considered to be mainly a matter of colour matching, [3] but while this is certainly important, a variety of other methods are used to provide effective camouflage. [1] [2] When an entry is marked Dominant, that method is used widely in that environment, in most cases ...