{"id":1845,"date":"2014-12-02T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2020-08-16T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:24:53","slug":"dust-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"Dust and Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Question:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Here in SW Nebraska, we have had a very dry fall and winter so far coupled with some really warm days along with some wind.\u00a0 This is not particularly unusual for us, but it does create a high level of health challenges in our feedlot setting.\u00a0 On the one hand, the calves need to be exercised and worked with, but on the other hand the dust often just billows up around them.\u00a0 On windy, low-humidity days, the whole yard can be quite dusty.\u00a0 We often water down the pens for new incoming calves.\u00a0 We see this as necessary but it is time-consuming and requires extra labor to get the job done (we are not equipped with big-guns and under-ground pressurized waterlines like some of the big yards). Putting down bedding or strawing the pens helps but doesn\u2019t eliminate the whole problem, plus it does get expensive.\u00a0 Those of you who have grass traps and grassy areas to exercise cattle have an advantage over those of us who don\u2019t have that privilege.\u00a0 So far, we just do the best we can with what we have to work with.\u00a0 Any advice other than changing locations?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard Bud discuss this many times and he always figured the mental and physical benefits that \u201ccorrectly exercising\u201d the cattle outweighed the negative of inhaling the dust. In fact, getting them moving encourages coughing which helps to clear the lungs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here in SW Nebraska, we have had a very dry fall and winter so far coupled with some really warm days along with some wind.\u00a0 This is not particularly unusual for us, but it does create a high level of health challenges in our feedlot setting.\u00a0 On the one hand, the calves need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockmanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}