Open-mouth breathing and restlessness. These may seem like symptoms of a common summer cold in humans, but add in a little drooling, and for cattle it is a sign of heat stress.
As summer temperatures tick higher on the thermometer, University of Missouri beef specialist Eric Bailey said cattle producers need to pay attention to the signs of heat stress in their operations. And too often they are overlooked, resulting in cattle losing weight, cows unable to breed or worse — death.
The problem for cattle is with their…
