BeefTalk: Wind and Cold Are a Dangerous Combination For Bulls
Is Your Bull’s Scrotum Frozen? You Better Check! Is Your Bull’s Scrotum Frozen? You Better Check!
By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service
Bulls exposed to wind and cold could be neutered by morning.
Very cold wind, three four-letter words, took a bite out of much of the northern Plains recently. Wind chills at minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit sent sharp pains of cold, almost like daggers, against my face.
I could not help wondering about the cows. I never have seen a frozen cow that wasn’t dead. Healthy, living cows do not freeze. Cow stand on four legs that are totally exposed to the weather, but get along just fine. Cows will attempt to get out of the wind and lay down.
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