{"id":1526016,"date":"2022-06-22T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526016"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:49:12","slug":"former-cattle-owner-in-kansas-explains-freak-heat-incident-that-killed-thousands-of-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cattle-owner-in-kansas-explains-freak-heat-incident-that-killed-thousands-of-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cattle Owner In Kansas Explains Freak Heat Incident That Killed Thousands Of Cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-cattle-owner-in-kansas-explains-freak-heat-incident-that-killed-thousands-of-cattle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">High temperatures in the midwest recently caused thousands of cattle to die, prompting some to start asking questions as to what caused the sudden deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clay Scott lives in Kansas and used to own cattle. He discussed the situation with The Daily Wire, saying it was a \u201cfreak of nature thing,\u201d and this type of situation has happened in the past due to the local climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He said it happens \u201conce in a while, every twenty years or so,\u201d where the weather quickly increases temperature. There had been a few days in a row of high temperatures, and the cattle had a difficult time getting cooled off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He also explained that since May was abnormally cold, a lot of the cattle still had their winter coats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The easy explanation, he added, was that it \u201cwas really hot, it was really humid, there was no breeze. We had a heat down burst,\u201d which he explained is \u201ca rare but not uncommon spike in temperatures in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In some circumstances, the animals had almost a full winter coat. He noted that it was sad that several thousand animals died in the region, but pointed out that there are several million cattle in that area of the world, although the numbers seem large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He said a local veterinarian pointed out on Twitter the heat index scores for cattle, and he said that for \u201cthree days in a row\u201d the lethal heat amount for cattle was exceeded, but \u201cit only took until the third day when we had that heat event that really spiked the numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Scott said it hurts the people who raise the animals \u201cmore than just a paycheck. They don\u2019t like to see it because they work so hard. And you work with animals every day. You want to see \u2019em do the best they can. You don\u2019t want to see anybody suffer. So I know several of those guys are a little dejected. \u2026 It\u2019s kind of like a flood or a fire, you know, it wasn\u2019t anything they could control, but yet they suffer the consequences of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The particular type of cattle that died were the heavy ones that are used to being on the range, Scott noted, and are the last to get rid of their winter coats. They were also from the northern rather than southern regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c99.9% of the time you [bring these cattle south], nothing ever matters of it,\u201d he said, adding it was \u201ca one-time event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Scott, if something malicious had happened to cause the cattle to die, the people who raise the animals would be \u201cup in arms\u201d about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s pretty evident that we got some really good people taking care of our cattle supply,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re really working hard to make sure it\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/up-to-10000-cattle-die-as-extreme-heat-bakes-kansas\">reported<\/a>, as many as 10,000 cattle died in the midst of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/weather\">triple-digit temperatures<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kansas\">Kansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said at least 2,000 head of cattle died due to high heat and humidity as of Tuesday last week, spokesperson Matthew Lara said. The calculation came from the number of carcasses the agency had been requested to help dispose of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The farming journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/news\/livestock\/beef\/cattle-losses-reported-due-heat-stress\">AgWeb.com<\/a>\u00a0reported the amount of dead cows could be as many as 10,000 \u2014 and more have been reported deceased in nearby Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Wilson contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High temperatures in the midwest recently caused thousands of cattle to die, prompting some to start asking questions as to what caused the sudden deaths. Clay Scott lives in Kansas and used to own cattle. 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