Texas dairy explosion leaves at least 18,000 cattle dead, 1 person critically injured
A dairy farm explosion injured one person and killed more than 18,000 cattle in Castro County, Texas, on Monday.
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bintananth
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Methane from the cattle in an enclosed space plus a spark.
Bear Ribs
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They were using a honey badger manure bedding dryer. It overheated and, well, using one without removing the manure promptly means a huge amount of dusty dried manure everywhere that basically turns into an FAE bomb when the dryer cooks off.18K cows..one farm...one explosion...
Guess everything IS bigger in Texas.
How exactly do you get a 'Dairy Explosion' too much yeast?!?!
Humor aside, I really wanna know, where they turning dung into bio methane or something?
Dimes to dollars says some idiot suit with more experience in accounting than farming thought to himself that he could shave down labor costs by only cleaning out the dried manure bedding every Y days instead of daily and then let it build up until it was ripe to cook off.
That is not a Dairy explosion, that is a Poop Air Bomb.
Sorry, but I just can't resist, the jokes for this frigging write themselves.
I'm betting it was collective dust from feed & grain coupled with open flame or large spark.
Sad part...amounts to around $36,000,000 in just lost cattle alone. Doesn't even count the lost dairy production.
Sad part...amounts to around $36,000,000 in just lost cattle alone. Doesn't even count the lost dairy production.
Bigking321
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Aren't they getting ready to start putting drugs in animals that have the same stuff as was in the vaxx?
DarthOne
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Yes. Yes they are. And Bill Gates is involved.
Of course the official fact checkers try to say otherwise and weasel-word their way out of it.
Bigking321
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Can the Spike protein garbage spread by eating the meat or animal products? Eggs and milk?
Or the plant and equipment, or the dead person and those with injuries ther might sue.
All because of one dumb penny pincher.
Thst said, I really do not understand why it would be desirable to dry the manure and peeve it in place.
Bear Ribs
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We don't know for a certainty that it was one dumb penny pincher, that's a theory I floated that fits what we know. I don't want my guesses to be claimed as facts.
As far as why you'd want to dry the manure, it makes it much lighter and easier to transport for later sale. Manure tends to be around 90% water so needless to say, it's dramatically cheaper to ship 15 tons of the dried stuff rather than 100 tons of wet manure. It also kills most of the weed seeds and pathogens so it's more desirable as fertilizer.
DarthOne
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According to some doctors, yes. I recommend checking out the COVID thread and ‘the Spartacus letter’ thread.
That makes sense but why the hell dry it inside.
They can just dump it out the main building and leave it to dry in the sun.
Around here we do that with with the shit collected out of the stables where you put your gosts and sheep.
Also, leaving it to get dried up by the sun clears up some of the potentially dangerous bacteria.
You never put in fresh shit in as fertilizer it has to "burn up" as we say here.
I'm not sure that's what was going on.
My understanding of dairy ops is that the barn that burnt up was the holding area prior to milking. I'll see if I can find any specific info.
barn?
Barns are used to store feed.
Maybe they were feeding them where the food was stored, and if they were feeding them with grains then it is possible we got a "flour air explosion" or equivalent for whatever the food might have contained.
But @Bear Ribs s explanation sounds plausible.
I mean, I think most of your cows are grass or soybean or corn fed, and those are IIRC not as explosive as wheat and flour.
At least I haven't heard of a corn or soybean silo going boom the way wheat and flour storage facilities sometime do.
stephen the barbarian
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all told that's 1,080 us tons (980 metric tons)and 1,286 us gallons (4868 liters) of shit and piss per day at this dairy. to treat that outside they would need a lagoon system, which would 1] need to be carefully engineered, 2] take up a large space, 3] stink to high heavens. the dryer avoids all of that and you can immediately turn around and use the fibrous by product as bedding.
Bear Ribs
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Er, barns are also used to house animals. They aren't just feed storage the way silos are.
Certain strains of wheat are fed to some dairy cattle (milk production takes a lot more feed than beef so dairy cattle usually get less grass and a lot more grain) but those won't cook off readily either, it's not a matter of how explosive the grain is but how finely it's milled. Corn is usually coarsely ground into corn meal while wheat for human consumption is typically finely ground into flour, the tiny particle size is why it can waft into the air and explode easily.
However cattle don't eat flour, they eat the whole plant stems and all so the dust from that is relatively low.
Ha! You think that tidbit of info is bad? Let me tell you about a farm practice that will never let you look at beef the same way again! Some farmers slowly wean their cattle off real feed by mixing and slowly substituting it with chicken litter, eventually most of what the cow consumes becomes chicken cr@p.
Yeah, I was only told this by my father after a long time of raising a small number of pastuered cattle and I couldn't believe it thinking it couldn't be healthy or even legal and while it probably isn't on the former it is on the later.
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