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4 Quick Ways to Warm a South Missouri Bull & Female Sale

Newborn Calf March 27, 2021 * 12 noon

Joplin Regional Stockyards, Carthage, MO
Your truck may be the best place for a calf in freezing temperatures. Selling 150 - 18 month old & yearling

When newborn calves are ex- the calf needs to be warmed up. Angus, Gelbvieh & Balancer bulls!
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it can create cold stress in them. for warming young calves:
Warming them up quickly can Use your vehicle. Pull the ALL BLACK!
prevent hypothermia. calf inside the truck onto the
“Adult cattle are pretty ro- floorboard heater. It may take up
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as their heating core during the colostrum.
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Tarpoff, Kansas State Universi- nearby access to a barn, bring
ty Research and Extension beef the calf into the shop near heat-
veterinarian. “But the newborn ing lights, and wrap it in warm DV DVAuctionAuction
calves are much more vulner- blankets. Dry the calf before
able to hypothermia and cold starting the warming process.
stress.” Be careful once it begins mov-
Take calf’s temp ing around that the calf doesn’t
Tarpoff says a calf's internal knock over the heating lights
body temperature should be and cause a fire.
between 101- and 102-degrees Put the calf in a hot box.
F, and trouble begins to arrive Some commercial boxes are RED REWARD Bull & Female Sale
when body temperature drops made of plastic, though some
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“The body starts to shunt hot boxes. Use lights or warm air Wheeler Livestock Auction, Osceola, MO
blood away from the extremities fans to promote heating.
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Tarpoff says. “The body is trying just a little over 100 degrees. Do
to defend itself, and the way it not use hot water, as this can
maintains its core temperature cause heart failure due to cold
is to pump warm blood to the shock. This is a labor-intensive
brain and other vital organs. technique since you must con-
They will scavenge their own tinuously add warm water. Catalogs on
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organs begin cooling, and when “A veterinarian may be able
temperatures dip into the mid- to use some different techniques
80s, Tarpoff says the animal –— such as a warm saline IV
may be comatose. which administers warm fluid to
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