SNOW KILLS - Argentina – 2,200 cattle die in snowstorm Last spring/winter: U.K. Suffered from historic snow which buried and killed tens of thousands of animals.. Now the snow is killing animals in South America ---------------------------------------- The other side of the snow Hundreds of animals died as a result of the snow, the cold and lack of grass in Utracán and Hucal departments. Producers complain because they say that the Government had no contingency plan for drought of more than six months and only gave some food for sheep. They say they ran out of money and no food ration. In several fields Bernasconi, General Acha, Ataliva Rock, Quehué, Colonia Santa Maria and Unanue appeared cows, calves and bulls dead until after the storm. The producers said that was conjugated everything. "They came from several months of poor nutrition due to lack of pasture and the cold and snow gave the coup de grace. Government aid was little, almost nothing. Some might ration, but they were killed like animals because they met and ran out of resources, "he told a producer of Bernasconi. According could find Textual Journal, the hundred kilos of corn ration now cost 90 pesos. By day, one animal eats an average of 5 kilos of corn. And the rolls of grass, another alternative to feed the farm, you get 400 pesos. The mayor of Bernasconi, Jorge Riera, said the department Hucal killed about 200 animals while in Utracán department, according to a survey of Senasa, the plague reached the 2000 heads.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:55:01 +0000
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