Calves were penned outside in the hot summer sun, dying in record levels of heat exhaustion, dehydration and perhaps malnourishment.
While their mothers are likely indoors hooked up to computerized milking
machines pumping their mammary gland secretions for profit, calves just days
old birthed from these mothers are snatched from their mothers and penned
outside in the hot summer sun, dying in record levels of heat exhaustion,
dehydration and perhaps malnourishment. That was the story that hit the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the other day.
Half of the more than two dozen herds of dairy cows struck by the heat
stress deaths are in Wisconsin, though the exact number of deaths in the
state has not been determined, said Raechelle Cline, a spokeswoman with the
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. The
calves were between 2- and 7-days-old and had been housed in outdoor calve
hutches with no shade, according to a news release from the agency.
Officials with the agency say calves younger than 10 days drink little water
and that many of the dead calves were kept in hutches not properly
configured for summer ventilation. Officials also believe the calves were
either weakened by heat stress and died from bacterial infection or became
dehydrated and died from heat stroke.
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